Individual-based models and the management of shorebird populations

Natural Resource Modeling

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 3-71

  Goss Custard, John D ^a   Stillman, Richard A ^b  

^a Havering   (United Kingdom)

^b BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Disturbance; Habitat loss; Mitigating measures; Sea level rise; Shellfishing; Shorebirds; Spartina and birds; Wading birds; Wildfowl

Indexed keywords

EID: 66149155718     PISSN: 08908575     EISSN: 19397445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1939-7445.2008.00006.x     Document Type: Article

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