Day-night activity of intertidal invertebrates and methods to estimate prey accessibility for shorebirds

Senckenbergiana Maritima

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 115-122

  Esser, Wiebke ^a   Vöge, Sandra ^b   Exo, Klaus Michael ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF AVIAN RESEARCH VOGELWARTE HELGOLAND   (Germany)

^b SENCKENBERG DEUTSCHES ENTOMOLOGISCHES INSTITUT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Charadriiformes; Foraging behaviour; Hediste diversicolor; Heteromastus filiformis; Prey availability; Sampling method; Wadden sea

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ACTIVITY PATTERN; BIOMASS; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; INTERTIDAL COMMUNITY; INVERTEBRATE; PREY AVAILABILITY; WADER; WATERFOWL; ZOOBENTHOS;

ANATIDAE; AVES; CHARADRIIDAE; CHARADRIIFORMES; HEDISTE DIVERSICOLOR; HETEROMASTUS FILIFORMIS; INVERTEBRATA; POLYCHAETA; RECURVIROSTRA AVOSETTA; TRINGA TOTANUS;

EID: 62149150250     PISSN: 0080889X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03055286     Document Type: Article

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