Differential mortality of wintering shorebirds on the Banc d'Arguin, Mauritania, due to predation by large falcons

Ibis

Volumn 150, Issue SUPPL.1, 2008, Pages 219-230

  Van Den Hout, Piet J ^a   Spaans, Bernard ^a   Piersma, Theunis ^a,b  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Age dependence; Annual survival; Falcons; Habitat selection; Mortality; Non lethal effects; Predation; Red Knot

Indexed keywords

AGE STRUCTURE; HABITAT SELECTION; JUVENILE; MORTALITY; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; RAPTOR; SURVIVAL; VULNERABILITY; WADER;

AFRICA; BANC D'ARGUIN NATIONAL PARK; MAURITANIA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA;

CALIDRIS ALPINA; CALIDRIS CANUTUS; CALIDRIS CANUTUS CANUTUS; FALCO BIARMICUS; FALCO PELEGRINOIDES; FALCO PEREGRINUS; FALCONIDAE; LIMOSA LAPPONICA;

EID: 36649011346     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: 1474919X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2008.00785.x     Document Type: Article

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