Key Features of Intertidal Food Webs That Support Migratory Shorebirds

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Saint Béat, Blanche ^a   Dupuy, Christine ^a   Bocher, Pierrick ^a   Chalumeau, Julien ^a   De Crignis, Margot ^a   Fontaine, Camille ^a   Guizien, Katell ^b   Lavaud, Johann ^a   Lefebvre, Sébastien ^c   Montanié, Hélène ^a   Mouget, Jean Luc ^d   Orvain, Francis ^g   Pascal, Pierre Yves ^e   Quaintenne, Gwenaël ^a   Radenac, Gilles ^a   Richard, Pierre ^a   Robin, Frédéric ^a   Vézina, Alain F ^f   Niquil, Nathalie ^a,g  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LA ROCHELLE   (France)

^b Sorbonne Universités   (France)

^c UNIV LILLE   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DU MAINE   (France)

^e UFR des Sciences Exactes et Naturelles   (France)

^f BEDFORD INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Canada)

^g CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON;

ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOLOGY; FOOD WEB; LINEAR SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MEASUREMENT; MIGRATORY SPECIES; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL REQUIREMENT; PROBABILITY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SHOREBIRD; STATISTICAL MODEL; WINTER;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BACTERIA; BAYS; BIRDS; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD CHAIN; FRANCE; GEOGRAPHY; INVERTEBRATES; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; SEASONS;

EID: 84886401799     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0076739     Document Type: Article

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