Foraging habitat selection by Little Terns Sternula albifrons in an estuarine lagoon system of southern Portugal

Ibis

Volumn 150, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 18-31

  Paiva, Vitor H ^a   Ramos, Jaime A ^a   Martins, Jorge ^b   Almeida, Ana ^b   Carvalho, Ana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALGARVE   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Estuaries; Foraging habitat selection; Geographical Information Systems; Little Tern; Logistic regression; Prey distribution

Indexed keywords

BREEDING POPULATION; BREEDING SEASON; COASTAL LAGOON; DIVING BEHAVIOR; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GIS; HABITAT SELECTION; NATIONAL PARK; PREY AVAILABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEABIRD; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

CALIFORNIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; FARO [PORTUGAL]; NORTH AMERICA; PORTUGAL; RIA FORMOSA; SALINAS [CALIFORNIA]; SOUTHERN EUROPE; UNITED STATES;

STERNA ALBIFRONS;

EID: 37849043605     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: 1474919X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2007.00722.x     Document Type: Article

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