Signals from the Wadden sea: Population declines dominate among waterbirds depending on intertidal mudflats

Ocean and Coastal Management

Volumn 68, Issue , 2012, Pages 79-88

  van Roomen, Marc ^a   Laursen, Karsten ^b   van Turnhout, Chris ^a   van Winden, Erik ^a   Blew, Jan ^c   Eskildsen, Kai ^c   Günther, Klaus ^c   Hälterlein, Bernd ^c   Kleefstra, Romke ^a   Potel, Petra ^c   Schrader, Stefan ^c   Luerssen, Gerold ^d   Ens, Bruno J ^a  

^a SOVON DUTCH CENTRE FOR FIELD ORNITHOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c BioConsult SH ^*  (Germany)

^d Nationalparkverwaltung Schleswig Holsteinisches Wattenmeer ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENMARK; INTERTIDAL MUDFLATS; INTERTIDAL WETLAND; INVASIVE SPECIES; MIGRATORY BIRDS; MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT; NETHERLANDS; POPULATION CHANGE; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION SIZES; SPATIAL SCALE; TIDAL BASIN; WADDEN SEA; WATERBIRDS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; FISHERIES; POPULATION STATISTICS;

EUTROPHICATION;

BIVALVE; CLIMATE CHANGE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; INVASIVE SPECIES; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MIGRATORY BEHAVIOR; MONITORING; MUDFLAT; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION SIZE; PROJECT ASSESSMENT; SEABIRD; SIGNAL; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

AFRICA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; DENMARK; EUROPE; GERMANY; NETHERLANDS; NORTH SEA; SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN; WADDEN SEA;

AVES; BIVALVIA; POLYCHAETA;

EID: 84872533855     PISSN: 09645691     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2012.04.004     Document Type: Article

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