Management of rice fields for birds during the non-growing season

Waterbirds

Volumn 33, Issue SPEC.ISSUE.1, 2010, Pages 181-192

  Elphick, Chris S ^a   Taft, Oriane ^a,c   Loureno, Pedro M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c Watershed Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

agricultural wetland; drainage ditch; field margin; food supplementation; harvest method; hunting; shorebird; straw manipulation; waterfowl; winter flooding

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; CROP PRODUCTION; DRAINAGE; FIELD MARGIN; FLOODING; FOOD SUPPLEMENTATION; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HARVESTING; HUNTING; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; PADDY FIELD; POPULATION STRUCTURE; RESEARCH WORK; RICE; STRAW; WADER; WATERFOWL; WETLAND;

ANATIDAE; AVES; ORYZA SATIVA;

EID: 78651510930     PISSN: 15244695     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1675/063.033.s114     Document Type: Article

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