Changes in the status of harvested rice fields in the Sacramento Valley, California: Implications for wintering waterfowl

Wetlands

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 939-947

  Miller, Michael R ^a   Garr, Jay D ^b   Coates, Peter S ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b Wildlife Friendly Farming   (United States)

Author keywords

Field status; Flooded; Foraging habitat; Survey

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL SURVEY; CONSERVATION PLANNING; CROP PRODUCTION; DATA SET; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEEDING GROUND; FLOODING; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HARVESTING; PADDY FIELD; PLOWING; RICE; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WATERFOWL; WETLAND MANAGEMENT;

CALIFORNIA; SACRAMENTO VALLEY; UNITED STATES;

ANATIDAE; ANSER;

EID: 83155182000     PISSN: 02775212     EISSN: 19436246     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13157-010-0090-2     Document Type: Article

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