Flock distributions of lesser flamingos phoeniconaias minor as potential responses to food abundance-predation risk trade-offs at kamfers dam, South Africa

Wildfowl

Volumn 65, Issue , 2015, Pages 3-18

  Henriksen, M V J ^a   Hangstrup, S ^a   Work, F ^a   Krogsgaard, M ^a   Groom, G B ^a   Fox, A D ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Flocking behaviour; Inter bird distance; Predation risk; Spatial distribution; Trade off

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FORAGING EFFICIENCY; GROUP BEHAVIOR; IMAGE PROCESSING; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PREDATION RISK; SOFTWARE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TRADE-OFF; WADER;

KAMFERS DAM; NORTHERN CAPE; SOUTH AFRICA;

ARTHROSPIRA FUSIFORMIS; AVES; CYANOBACTERIA; PHOENICOPTERIDAE; PHOENICOPTERUS MINOR;

EID: 84952773907     PISSN: 09546324     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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