Diet and prey selection of shorebirds on salt pans in the mondego estuary, western Portugal

Ardeola

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-11

  Pedro, Patrícia ^a   Ramos, Jaime A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVES; CALIDRIS ALPINA; CHARADRIUS; CHARADRIUS ALEXANDRINUS; CHARADRIUS HIATICULA; CHIRONOMIDAE; EPHYDRIDAE;

EID: 78149308441     PISSN: 05707358     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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