Habitat selection in birds feeding on ocean shores: Landscape effects are important in the choice of foraging sites by oystercatchers

Marine Ecology

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 67-76

  Schlacher, Thomas A ^a   Meager, Justin J ^a   Nielsen, Tara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE SUNSHINE COAST   (Australia)

Author keywords

Foraging; Habitat selection; Prey distributions; Shorebird consumers; Spatial scale

Indexed keywords

BENTHOS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HABITAT SELECTION; LANDSCAPE; PREY AVAILABILITY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; WADER;

AUSTRALIA;

ANIMALIA; AVES; HAEMATOPODIDAE; HAEMATOPUS LONGIROSTRIS; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 84892846245     PISSN: 01739565     EISSN: 14390485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/maec.12055     Document Type: Article

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