Alteration of habitat structure and food resources by invasive smooth cordgrass affects habitat use by wintering saltmarsh birds at chongming dongtan, East China

Auk

Volumn 127, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 317-327

  Gan, Xiaojing ^a   Choi, Chiyeung ^a   Wang, Yong ^a,b   Ma, Zhijun ^a,c   Chen, Jiakuan ^a   Li, Bo ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ALABAMA A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Food resources; Habitat structure; Phragmites australis; Plant invasion; Saltmarsh bird; Spartina alterniflora

Indexed keywords

BIRD; FOOD AVAILABILITY; GRASS; HABITAT STRUCTURE; HABITAT USE; INVASIVE SPECIES; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SALTMARSH; SPECIES RICHNESS;

CHINA; CHONGMING DONGTAN NATURE RESERVE; SHANGHAI;

ARTHROPODA; AVES; PHRAGMITES; PHRAGMITES AUSTRALIS; SPARTINA; SPARTINA ALTERNIFLORA;

EID: 77951909358     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/auk.2009.09147     Document Type: Article

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