Why study birds in rice fields?

Waterbirds

Volumn 33, Issue SPEC.ISSUE.1, 2010, Pages 1-7

  Elphick, Chris S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

agriculture; agronomy; artificial wetland; farmland bird; waterbird; wildlife

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; AGRONOMY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; CROP PRODUCTION; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FLOOD; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT TYPE; MIGRATION; NUTRITION; PADDY FIELD; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; RANGE EXPANSION; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; RESEARCH WORK; RICE; VEGETATION TYPE; WADER; WATERFOWL; WETLAND;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

ANATIDAE; AVES; ORYZA SATIVA;

EID: 78651481900     PISSN: 15244695     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1675/063.033.s101     Document Type: Article

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