Snowy plovers select open habitats for courtship scrapes and nests

Condor

Volumn 112, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 507-510

  Muir, Jordan J ^a   Colwell, Mark A ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ammophila; Charadrius alexandrinus nivosus; Habitat restoration; Nest site selection; Snowy Plover

Indexed keywords

AMMOPHILA ARENARIA; CHARADRIIDAE; CHARADRIUS ALEXANDRINUS; CHARADRIUS ALEXANDRINUS NIVOSUS;

EID: 77956896860     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/cond.2010.090196     Document Type: Article

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