Red Knot diet reconstruction revisited: Context dependence revealed by experiments at Banc d'Arguin, Mauritania

Bird Study

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 298-307

  Onrust, Jeroen ^a,b   De Fouw, Jimmy ^a   Oudman, Thomas ^a   Van Der Geest, Matthijs ^a   Piersma, Theunis ^a,b   Van Gils, Jan A ^a  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIVALVE; DIET; DIETARY SHIFT; EGG SIZE; FECES; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; SHELL; SUBSPECIES; WADER;

BANC D'ARGUIN NATIONAL PARK; EUROPE; MAURITANIA;

AVES; BIVALVIA; CALIDRIS CANUTUS; CALIDRIS CANUTUS CANUTUS; DOSINIA; LORIPES LUCINALIS; MOLLUSCA;

EID: 84882452259     PISSN: 00063657     EISSN: 19446705     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00063657.2013.811213     Document Type: Article

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