Wetland use and selection by breeding waterbirds in the boreal forest of Quebec, Canada

Wetlands

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 321-332

  Lemelin, Louis Vincent ^a,b,e   Darveau, Marcel ^b   Imbeau, Louis ^c   Bordage, Daniel ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC EN ABITIBI TÉMISCAMINGUE   (Canada)

^b DUCKS UNLIMITED CANADA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^d ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^e MINISTÈRE DES RESSOURCES NATURELLES ET DE LA FAUNE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Eastern Canada; Habitat use; Small wetlands; Streams; Waterfowl

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE SURVEY; BOREAL FOREST; BREEDING POPULATION; BREEDING SITE; DATA INTERPRETATION; HABITAT USE; SHORELINE; SITE SELECTION; STREAM; VEGETATION MAPPING; WATERFOWL; WETLAND;

CANADA; QUEBEC [CANADA];

AIX; AIX SPONSA; ANAS; ANATIDAE; ANSER; AYTHYA COLLARIS; BRANTA CANADENSIS; BUCEPHALA CLANGULA; GAVIA IMMER; LOPHODYTES; LOPHODYTES CUCULLATUS;

EID: 77956492051     PISSN: 02775212     EISSN: 19436246     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13157-010-0024-z     Document Type: Article

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