Small-prey profitability: Field analysis of shorebirds' use of surface tension of water to transport prey

Auk

Volumn 124, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1244-1253

  Estrella, Sora M ^a   Masero, José A ^b   Pérez Hurtado, Alejandro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CÁDIZ   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Feeding mechanisms; Profitability; Shorebirds; Small prey; Surface tension transport

Indexed keywords

FEEDING MECHANISM; FIELD METHOD; INTERSPECIFIC VARIATION; LABORATORY METHOD; MORPHOLOGY; PREY AVAILABILITY; PREY CAPTURE; PROFITABILITY; SURFACE TENSION; VIDEOGRAPHY; WADER;

AVES; CALIDRIS ALBA; CALIDRIS ALPINA; CALIDRIS FERRUGINEA; CALIDRIS MAURI; CALIDRIS MINUTA; CALIDRIS MINUTILLA; HIMANTOPUS HIMANTOPUS; PHALAROPUS LOBATUS; TRINGA TOTANUS;

EID: 36448990053     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1642/0004-8038(2007)124[1244:SPFAOS]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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