The Belgian sandy beach ecosystem: a review

J Speybroeck, D Bonte, W Courtens… - Marine …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
This paper reviews the available knowledge on sedimentology, hydrodynamics and five
major ecosystem components (microphytobenthos, vascular plants, terrestrial arthropods …

[图书][B] Terns

D Cabot, I Nisbet - 2013 - documentatiecentrum.watlab.be
Abstract This New Naturalist volume provides a much-anticipated overview of these
fascinating birds–the first book on the natural history of British and Irish terns since 1934 …

Improvement in chick provisioning with parental experience in a seabird

B Limmer, PH Becker - Animal Behaviour, 2009 - Elsevier
Age-related differences in the reproductive success of birds may be the result of experience-
dependent changes in foraging and parental skills. We tested this hypothesis in a long-lived …

Survival and local recruitment are driven by environmental carry-over effects from the wintering area in a migratory seabird

KL Szostek, PH Becker - Oecologia, 2015 - Springer
We estimated annual apparent survival rates, as well as local recruitment rates in different
age groups and for different breeding status in the common tern Sterna hirundo using mark …

Factors influencing the spawning migration of female anadromous brown trout

JC Svendsen, A Koed, K Aarestrup - Journal of Fish Biology, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Radio telemetry was employed to study movements of adult female anadromous brown trout
Salmo trutta (sea trout) during upstream spawning migration and following spawning in a …

Effects of the construction of Scroby Sands offshore wind farm on the prey base of Little tern Sternula albifrons at its most important UK colony

MR Perrow, JJ Gilroy, ER Skeate, ML Tomlinson - Marine pollution bulletin, 2011 - Elsevier
Despite widespread interest in the impacts of wind farms upon birds, few researchers have
examined the potential for indirect or trophic (predator–prey) effects. Using surface trawls …

Habitat selection by breeding waterbirds at ponds with size-structured fish populations

J Kloskowski, M Nieoczym, M Polak, P Pitucha - Naturwissenschaften, 2010 - Springer
Fish may significantly affect habitat use by birds, either as their prey or as competitors. Fish
communities are often distinctly size-structured, but the consequences for waterbird …

[PDF][PDF] Foraging guilds of waterbirds wintering in a Mediterranean coastal wetland

V Liordos - Zool Stud, 2010 - zoolstud.sinica.edu.tw
Vasilios Liordos (2010) Foraging guilds of waterbirds wintering in a Mediterranean coastal
wetland. Zoological Studies 49 (3): 311-323. The foraging behavior of the waterbird …

Fine-scale foraging segregation in a green turtle (Chelonia mydas) feeding ground in the Bijagós archipelago, Guinea Bissau

FM Madeira, R Rebelo, P Catry, J Neiva… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Green turtles (Chelonia mydas) are highly dependent on neritic foraging areas throughout
much of their life. Still, knowledge of recruitment dynamics, foraging habits, and habitat use …

Eye morphology contributes to the ecology and evolution of the aquatic avifauna

IJ Ausprey - Journal of Animal Ecology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Aquatic birds are notable among the global avifauna for living in environments exposed to
large amounts of light. Despite growing evidence that visual adaptations to light underly the …