Shorebird and Passerine Abundance and Habitat Use at a High Arctic Breeding Site:

• Main Authors: Creswell Bay Nunavut, Paul B. Latour, Craig S. Machtans, Gerard W. Beyersbergen
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2004
• Subjects: Key words; Creswell Bay; High Arctic; Nunavut; shorebirds; passerines; de; Arctic; Buff; Calidris alba; Phalaropus fulicarius; Red Phalarope; Tundra; Lapland; Sanderling
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.578.8616; http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/arctic58-1-55.pdf

on the north and south sides of Creswell Bay, consisted of sedge marsh and sedge wetland in the lowest areas, with shrub tundra dominated by Dryas spp. or Cassiope spp. and sparse herbaceous tundra over more upland areas. Surveys were carried out on 400 × 400 m plots distributed among the vegetation...