Use of rice fields by birds in West Africa

Waterbirds

Volumn 33, Issue SPEC.ISSUE.1, 2010, Pages 97-104

  Wymenga, Eddy ^a   Zwarts, Leo ^a  

^a Altenburg and Wymenga Ecological Consultants   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

agriculture; bird densities; floodplains; man made wetlands; rice fields; waterbirds; West Africa

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONE; CULTIVATION; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FLOODPLAIN; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT LOSS; HABITAT TYPE; IRRIGATION; MANGROVE; PADDY FIELD; PALEARCTIC REGION; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION DENSITY; RAINFED AGRICULTURE; RARE SPECIES; RICE; WADER;

NIGER DELTA; NIGERIA;

AVES;

EID: 78651511182     PISSN: 15244695     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1675/063.033.s107     Document Type: Article

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