Population overlap and habitat segregation in wintering Black-tailed Godwits Limosa limosa

Bird Study

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 381-391

  Alves, José A ^a   Lourenço, Pedro M ^b   Piersma, Theunis ^b,c   Sutherland, William J ^d   Gill, Jennifer A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMONITORING; BREEDING POPULATION; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT USE; MIGRATORY BEHAVIOR; MUDFLAT; PADDY FIELD; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SEABIRD; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES CONSERVATION; WETLAND;

SOUTHERN EUROPE;

LIMOSA; LIMOSA LIMOSA;

EID: 77956466061     PISSN: 00063657     EISSN: 19446705     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00063651003678475     Document Type: Article

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