Consequences of rice agriculture for waterbird population size and dynamics

Waterbirds

Volumn 33, Issue SPEC.ISSUE.1, 2010, Pages 160-166

  Fasola, Mauro ^a   Brangi, Anna ^a  

^a Dipartimento di Biologia Animale   (Italy)

Author keywords

egrets; foraging; habitat selection; herons; population; rice fields

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; ASSESSMENT METHOD; BREEDING POPULATION; CARRYING CAPACITY; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; CULTIVATION; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ESTIMATION METHOD; FOOD INTAKE; HABITAT AVAILABILITY; HABITAT TYPE; HABITAT USE; LANDSCAPE; PADDY FIELD; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION SIZE; PREY AVAILABILITY; RANGE EXPANSION; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SITE FIDELITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SURVEY; SURVIVAL; TEMPORAL VARIATION; WADER;

ASIA; ITALY;

ARDEIDAE;

EID: 78651481365     PISSN: 15244695     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1675/063.033.s112     Document Type: Article

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