Retrodicting patch use by foraging swans in a heterogeneous environment using a set of functional responses

Oikos

Volumn 118, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 431-439

  Nolet, Bart A ^a   Klaassen, Marcel ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; BIOENERGETICS; BIOMASS; CARRYING CAPACITY; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FOOD INTAKE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; FUNCTIONAL RESPONSE; HABITAT QUALITY; PATCH USE; SEDIMENT CORE; SUBMERGED VEGETATION; TUBER; WATERFOWL;

AVES; CYGNUS; FOENICULUM VULGARE;

EID: 61849103933     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2008.16857.x     Document Type: Article

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