Distribution and diet of wintering Tundra Bean Geese Anserfabalis serrirostris at Shengjin Lake, Yangtze River floodplain, China

Wildfowl

Volumn 60, Issue , 2010, Pages 52-63

  Zhao, Mei Juan ^a   Cao, Lei ^a   Fox, Anthony D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Anserfabalis bean goose; Carex; Diet; Distribution; Shengjin lake; Trapa maximowiczii; Winter wheat

Indexed keywords

DIET; ESTIMATION METHOD; EUTROPHICATION; FLOODPLAIN; FRUIT; MEADOW; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION STRUCTURE; RANGE EXPANSION; SEDGE; TUNDRA; WATER LEVEL; WATERFOWL; WHEAT; WINTER;

ANHUI; CHINA; SHENGJIN LAKE;

ALOPECURUS AEQUALIS; ANSER; ANSER FABALIS; ANSER FABALIS ROSSICUS; ANSER FABALIS SERRIROSTRIS; AVES; CAREX; TRAPA; TRAPA MAXIMOWICZII; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 78651319338     PISSN: 09546324     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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