Prey Distribution, Physical Habitat Features, and Guild Traits Interact to Produce Contrasting Shorebird Assemblages among Foraging Patches

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  VanDusen, Beth M ^a,b   Fegley, Stephen R ^a   Peterson, Charles H ^a,b  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BENTHOS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GRAIN; HABITAT USE; HUMAN; INTERTIDAL SPECIES; MACROINVERTEBRATE; MINING; POPULATION DENSITY; PREY; SAND; SEDIMENT; SHOREBIRD; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES HABITAT;

ANIMALS; BIOMASS; BIRDS; ECOSYSTEM; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; INVERTEBRATES; NORTH CAROLINA; POPULATION DENSITY;

AVES; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 84871413887     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0052694     Document Type: Article

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