Use of salt ponds by wintering shorebirds throughout the tidal cycle

Waterbirds

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 531-537

  Dias, Maria P ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE PSICOLOGIA APLICADA   (Portugal)

^b Museu Nacional de Historia Natural Universidade de Lisboa   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Estuaries; Guadiana; Habitat use; Management; Salt ponds; Shorebirds; Waders; Wetlands

Indexed keywords

AQUACULTURE PRODUCTION; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; HABITAT MANAGEMENT; HABITAT USE; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; MIGRATORY SPECIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SALINE LAKE; SALINITY; SITE EFFECT; TIDAL CYCLE; WADER; WATER DEPTH; WETLAND;

GUADIANA ESTUARY;

AVES; SCOLOPACIDAE;

EID: 76749152362     PISSN: 15244695     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1675/063.032.0406     Document Type: Article

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