Soil moisture limits foraging: A possible mechanism for the range dynamics of the hadeda ibis in southern Africa

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 765-772

  Duckworth, Gregory D ^b   Altwegg, Res ^a   Guo, Danni ^a  

^a SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL BIODIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Climate change; Energy expenditure; Foraging efficiency; Quantile regression; Range expansion; Species range limit

Indexed keywords

BIOENERGETICS; CLIMATE EFFECT; EARTHWORM; FORAGING EFFICIENCY; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; IRRIGATION; LAND USE CHANGE; PREY CAPTURE; RANGE EXPANSION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOIL FAUNA; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL PROFILE; WADER;

SOUTHERN AFRICA;

ANIMALIA; BOSTRYCHIA HAGEDASH; IBIS; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 77955756966     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2010.00683.x     Document Type: Article

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