Buses, cars, bicycles and walkers: The influence of the type of human transport on the flight responses of waterbirds

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  McLeod, Emily M ^a   Guay, Patrick Jean ^a   Taysom, Alice J ^a   Robinson, Randall W ^a   Weston, Michael A ^b  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b School of Life and Environmental Sciences   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BICYCLE; BIRD; CAR; DISTRACTIBILITY; FLYING; HABITAT QUALITY; NONHUMAN; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT; WALKER; WATERBIRD;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; ECOSYSTEM; HUMANS; MOTOR VEHICLES; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 84893195833     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0082008     Document Type: Article

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