Waterbird response to changes in habitat area and diversity generated by rainfall in a SW Atlantic coastal lagoon

Waterbirds

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 541-553

  Canepuccia, Alejandro D ^a,b   Isacch, Juan P ^a,b   Gagliardini, Domingo A ^b,c   Escalante, Alicia H ^a,b   Iribarne, Oscar O ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE MAR DEL PLATA   (Argentina)

^b Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

^c INSTITUTO DE ASTRONOMÍA Y FÍSICA DEL ESPACIO   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Argentina; Flooding; Habitat diversity; Marsh; Rainfall; Remote sensing; Shorebirds; Water depth; Waterbirds; Wetland

Indexed keywords

COASTAL LAGOON; DISTURBANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HABITAT QUALITY; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAINFALL; RIPARIAN ZONE; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; WATER DEPTH; WETLAND;

ARGENTINA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (SOUTHWEST); BUENOS AIRES [ARGENTINA]; MAR CHIQUITA LAGOON; PAMPAS; SOUTH AMERICA;

ANAS; ANATIDAE; AVES; CYGNUS;

EID: 39449088541     PISSN: 15244695     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1675/1524-4695(2007)030[0541:WRTCIH]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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