Relationship between Distance to Cover, Vigilance and Group Size in Staging Flocks of Semipalmated Sandpipers

Ethology

Volumn 116, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 645-652

  Beauchamp, Guy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOOD AVAILABILITY; GROUP SIZE; PREDATION RISK; VIGILANCE; WADER;

CALIDRIS PUSILLA; SCOLOPACIDAE;

EID: 77954615015     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2010.01778.x     Document Type: Article

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