Swan foraging shapes spatial distribution of two submerged plants, favouring the preferred prey species

Oecologia

Volumn 156, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 569-576

  Sandsten, Håkan ^a   Klaassen, Marcel ^b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cygnus; Mutualism; Potamogeton; Predator prey interactions; Subterranean herbivory

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC PLANT; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GRAZING PRESSURE; HERBIVORY; MACROPHYTE; MUTUALISM; PLANT COMMUNITY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; PREY SELECTION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SUBMERGED VEGETATION; TUBER; WATERFOWL;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; DEMOGRAPHY; DUCKS AND GEESE; FOOD PREFERENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POTAMOGETONACEAE; RIVER;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANSERIFORMES; BIOMASS; DEMOGRAPHY; FOOD PREFERENCES; POPULATION DENSITY; POTAMOGETONACEAE; RIVERS;

AVES; CYGNUS; PECTINATUS; POTAMOGETON; POTAMOGETON PECTINATUS; POTAMOGETON PERFOLIATUS; TUBER (TRUFFLE);

EID: 43349092921     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-008-1010-5     Document Type: Article

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