Livestock grazing and trampling of birds' nests: An experiment using artificial nests

Journal of Coastal Conservation

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 409-416

  Mandema, Freek S ^a   Tinbergen, Joost M ^a   Ens, Bruno J ^b   Bakker, Jan P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b SOVON DUTCH CENTRE FOR FIELD ORNITHOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cattle; Grazing treatments; Ground breeding; Horse; Salt marsh; Wader

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NEST; BREEDING; CATTLE; GRAZING; HORSE; LIVESTOCK FARMING; SURVIVAL; TRAMPLING; WADER;

AVES; BOS; COLUMBA; EQUIDAE; VANELLUS VANELLUS;

EID: 84883853540     PISSN: 14000350     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11852-013-0239-2     Document Type: Article

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