Shorebird incubation behaviour and its influence on the risk of nest predation

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 835-842

  Smith, Paul A ^a   Tulp, Ingrid ^b   Schekkerman, Hans ^c   Gilchrist, H Grant ^d   Forbes, Mark R ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c SOVON DUTCH CENTRE FOR FIELD ORNITHOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^d ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biparental incubation; Incubation; Nest predation; Nest survival; Predation risk; Shorebird; Uniparental incubation

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; INCUBATION; MOVEMENT; NEST PREDATION; PREDATION RISK; RISK FACTOR; WADER;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

AVES; CALIDRIS MINUTA; CHARADRII; PHALAROPUS FULICARIA;

EID: 84866920162     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2012.07.004     Document Type: Article

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