Nonrandom Shorebird Distribution and Fine-Scale Variation in Prey Abundance
- 1 February 1993
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Ornithological Applications
- Vol. 95 (1) , 94-103
- https://doi.org/10.2307/1369390
Abstract
Spatial variation in the abundance of nonbreeding shorebirds can be predicted to varying degrees by the density of their prey species; strongest relationships o...Keywords
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