Net energy intake rate as a common currency to explain swan spatial distribution in a shallow lake

Wetlands

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 119-127

  Gyimesi, Abel ^a,c   Varghese, Sam ^b   Leeuw, Jan De ^b,d   Nolet, Bart A ^a,e  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^c Bureau Waardenburg   (Netherlands)

^d Marine Products Export Development Authority   (India)

^e INTERNATIONAL LIVESTOCK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Aggregative response; Carrying capacity; Cygnus columbianus bewickii; Remote sensing; Stuckenia pectinata

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AGGRESSION; BIOMASS; BIRD; ENERGY BALANCE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; REMOTE SENSING; SHALLOW WATER; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TUNDRA;

ANIMALIA; AVES; CYGNUS COLUMBIANUS; CYGNUS COLUMBIANUS BEWICKII; STUCKENIA PECTINATA; STUCKENIA PECTINATUS;

EID: 84863725762     PISSN: 02775212     EISSN: 19436246     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13157-011-0256-6     Document Type: Article

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