Site selection and resource depletion in black-tailed godwits Limosa l. limosa eating rice during northward migration

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 522-528

  Lourenço, Pedro M ^a   Mandema, Freek S ^a,b   Hooijmeijer, Jos C E W ^a   Granadeiro, José P ^b   Piersma, Theunis ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^c ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Foraging decisions; Functional response; Habitat selection; Individual movements; Intake rate; Rice fields; Stopover ecology

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ALLOMETRY; BIOENERGETICS; FOOD INTAKE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; FUNCTIONAL RESPONSE; MIGRATION ROUTE; PADDY FIELD; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; RICE; SITE SELECTION; STOPOVER; WADER;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHARADRIIFORMES; ENERGY METABOLISM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION MIGRATION; RICE; SEASON; TIME;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; CHARADRIIFORMES; ENERGY METABOLISM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; ORYZA SATIVA; POPULATION DENSITY; SEASONS; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; AVES; LIMOSA; LIMOSA LIMOSA;

EID: 77954005501     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: 13652656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2009.01654.x     Document Type: Article

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