Declines in the tuber-feeding waterbird guild at Shengjin Lake National Nature Reserve, China - a barometer of submerged macrophyte collapse

Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 82-91

  Fox, Anthony D ^a   Cao, Lei ^b   Zhang, Yong ^b   Barter, Mark ^b   Zhao, Mei Juan ^b   Meng, Fan Juan ^b   Wang, Si Long ^b  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

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

Author keywords

Anser cygnoides; Cygnus columbianus; Eutrophication; Floating vegetation; Grus monacha; Vallisneria

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ENERGY BUDGET; EPHEMERAL LAKE; EUTROPHICATION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FLOODPLAIN; FOOD AVAILABILITY; GUILD; MACROPHYTE; MONSOON; NATURE RESERVE; POPULATION DECLINE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SUBMERGED VEGETATION; SUBSTRATE; TUBER; WATER TABLE; WATERFOWL;

ANHUI; CHINA; SHENGJIN LAKE;

ANSER; ANSER CYGNOIDES; CYGNUS COLUMBIANUS; GRUS MONACHA; TUBER (TRUFFLE); VALLISNERIA;

EID: 78751693762     PISSN: 10527613     EISSN: 10990755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aqc.1154     Document Type: Article

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