Foraging Ecology of Fall Migrating Shorebirds in the Illinois River Valley 1 July 2007 to 30 June 2009 Final Report

Agriculture & Biology

• Illinois River 100%
• river valleys 72%
• foraging 46%
• ecology 43%
• Oligochaeta 35%
• wetlands 34%
• habitats 33%
• diet 27%
• invertebrates 24%
• Calidris 16%
• Mississippi River 16%
• hydrology 15%
• Isopoda 13%
• habitat preferences 11%
• planning 11%
• Charadrius vociferus 10%
• reserve networks 10%
• body size 9%
• Tringa 9%
• forage 8%
• Coleoptera 8%
• Great Lakes region 8%
• optimal nutrition 8%
• Scolopacidae 8%
• Gambusia 8%
• summer 7%
• Hirudinea 7%
• biomass 7%
• water birds 7%
• ownership 7%
• carrying capacity 7%
• migratory birds 6%
• surface water level 6%
• feeding preferences 6%
• floodplains 6%
• soil management 6%
• water management 6%
• Heteroptera 6%
• lipids 6%
• body condition 5%
• conservation areas 5%
• Hemiptera 5%
• researchers 4%
• Nematoda 4%
• sampling 4%
• fish 3%