Rates of Food Intake and Aggression of Oystercatchers Haematopus ostralegus on the Most and Least Preferred Mussel Mytilus edulis Beds of the Exe Estuary
- 1 February 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by JSTOR in Journal of Animal Ecology
- Vol. 53 (1), 233-245
- https://doi.org/10.2307/4354
Abstract
(1) This paper compares the aggressive and feeding behaviour of oystercatchers Haematopus ostralegus feeding on preferred mussel Mytilus edulis beds, where bird...This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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