Effects of Human Disturbance on Foraging Behavior of Dunlins Calidris alpina

• Main Authors: Yue-wei Yang, Gui-rong Xia, Ping Ding, Yu-zhao Chen
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Chinese; English
• Published: Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences 2005
• Subjects: Human disturbance; Dunlin; Foraging behavior; Minimal approach distance; The Beaches; Calidris alpina
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1807/9343; http://www.bioline.org.br/abstract?id=zr05039

Studies on effects of human activity on the foraging behavior of dunlins Calidris alpina were conducted using methods of focal-animal sampling and human-disturbance experiment at the beaches of Yanpen and Yuecheng, Yueqing bay in Zhejiang Province from November 2003 to March 2004. Results of focal-a...