The exploitation of biofilm by migrant western sandpipers (Calidris mauri)

Assessing the quality of migratory shorebird stopover sites requires good measures of food availability. We developed simple methods to measure biofilm grazing by migrant western sandpipers (Calidris mauri), a species for which biofilm is an important dietary component. We used a field-portable chlo...

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Main Authors: Rachel Canham, James Rourke, Ronald C. Ydenberg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2023-06-01
Series:Heliyon
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405844023044766