How starvation risk in Redshanks Tringa totanus results in predation mortality from Sparrowhawks Accipiter nisus

Ibis

Volumn 150, Issue SUPPL.1, 2008, Pages 209-218

  Cresswell, Will ^a   Whitfield, D Philip ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b Banchory Business Centre   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Non lethal effects; Starvation predation risk trade off; Trail mediated interactions

Indexed keywords

ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; AVOIDANCE REACTION; CAUSE OF DEATH; POPULATION SIZE; PREDATION; PREDATION RISK; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; PREY CAPTURE; RAPTOR; STARVATION; TRADE-OFF; VULNERABILITY; WADER;

EAST LOTHIAN; EURASIA; EUROPE; FIRTH OF FORTH; SCOTLAND; TYNINGHAME ESTUARY; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

ACCIPITER NISUS; AMPHIPODA; ANIMALIA; ORCHESTIA; TRINGA; TRINGA TOTANUS;

EID: 50049122480     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: 1474919X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2008.00784.x     Document Type: Article

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