WaderMORPH - a user-friendly individual-based model to advise shorebird policy and management

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 95-98

  West, Andrew D ^a   Stillman, Richard A ^a   Drewitt, Allan ^b   Frost, Natalie J ^c   Mander, Matt ^d   Miles, Chris ^e   Langston, Rowena ^f   Sanderson, William G ^g   Willis, Jay ^h  

^a BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NATURAL ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^c ABP Marine Environmental Research Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^d Eastern Sea Fisheries Joint Committee   (United Kingdom)

^e SCOTTISH NATURAL HERITAGE   (United Kingdom)

^f RSPB CENTRE FOR CONSERVATION SCIENCE   (United Kingdom)

^g Countryside Council for Wales ^*  (United Kingdom)

^h HR WALLINGFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate change; Coastal conservation; Environmental change; Foraging behaviour; Individual based model; Shellfishery management

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867688201     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2041210X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.2041-210X.2010.00049.x     Document Type: Article

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