Piping plover foraging-site selection on the Missouri River

Waterbirds

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 587-592

  Le Fer, Danielle ^a,b   Fraser, James D ^a   Kruse, Casey D ^c  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory   (United States)

^c U S ARMY ENGINEER RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Charadrius melodus; epilimnetc; foraging; habitat; hypolimnetic; Missouri River; Piping Plover; shorebird

Indexed keywords

CHARADRIUS MELODUS;

EID: 79551576718     PISSN: 15244695     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1675/1524-4695-31.4.587     Document Type: Article

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