Why Afro-Siberian Red Knots Calidris canutus canutus have stopped staging in the western Dutch Wadden Sea during southward migration

Ardea

Volumn 98, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 155-160

  Kraan, Casper ^a   Van Gils, Jan A ^a   Spaans, Bernard ^a   Dekinga, Anne ^a   Piersma, Theunis ^a,b  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Connectivity; East Atlantic flyway; Foraging; Habitat suitability; Macrozoobenthos; Migration; Molluscivore shorebirds; Predicted intake rate

Indexed keywords

CONNECTIVITY; DIET; FOOD INTAKE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HABITAT SELECTION; MIGRATORY SPECIES; MUDFLAT; OVERWINTERING; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION MIGRATION; WADER; ZOOBENTHOS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; KRASNOYARSK [RUSSIAN FEDERATION]; NORTH SEA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; TAYMYR; WADDEN SEA;

CALIDRIS CANUTUS; CALIDRIS CANUTUS CANUTUS;

EID: 78649294030     PISSN: 03732266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5253/078.098.0204     Document Type: Article

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