Food web interactions of two breeding Arctic shorebird species, little stint Calidris minuta and red knot Calidris canutus, are shaped by their elevational distribution
Mikhail K. Zhemchuzhnikov,
Thomas K. Lameris,
Mikhail Y. Soloviev
et al.
Abstract:Birds often have to choose their nest site location along a food safety axis, balancing nest predation danger with the food requirements of themselves and their offspring. This is probably most important for precocial species, such as most shorebirds, in which both chicks and parents need access to food resources in the surroundings of the nest, at least during the first days of life of the chicks. In many Arctic ecosystems, shorebird nests are typically prone to predation by both avian and terrestrial predato… Show more
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