Scaling up ideals to freedom: Are densities of red knots across western Europe consistent with ideal free distribution?

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 278, Issue 1719, 2011, Pages 2728-2736

  Quaintenne, Gwenaël ^a   van Gils, Jan A ^b   Bocher, Pierrick ^a,b   Dekinga, Anne ^b   Piersma, Theunis ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LA ROCHELLE   (France)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Dispersal; Energetics; Group living; Intake rate; Interference; Spatial scale

Indexed keywords

DIET; ENERGETICS; FOOD INTAKE; HOMOGENEITY; IDEAL FREE DISTRIBUTION; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; MOLLUSC; MOVEMENT; MUDFLAT; POPULATION DENSITY; WADER;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CALORIC INTAKE; CHARADRIIFORMES; ECOSYSTEM; EUROPE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FRANCE; MOLLUSC; NETHERLANDS; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION MIGRATION; PREDATION; SEA; SEASON; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; CHARADRIIFORMES; ECOSYSTEM; ENERGY INTAKE; EUROPE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FRANCE; GREAT BRITAIN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLLUSCA; NETHERLANDS; OCEANS AND SEAS; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SEASONS;

FRANCE; NETHERLANDS; UNITED KINGDOM;

AVES; CALIDRIS CANUTUS; MOLLUSCA;

EID: 80051527066     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2011.0026     Document Type: Article

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