Interaction between birds and macrofauna within food webs of six intertidal habitats of the Wadden Sea
Table 2
Diet matrix of the birds with references, numbers show the percentage contribution of each prey compartment i to the diet of each bird species (consumer compartment j), with A. a = Anasacuta, A. pe = Anaspenelope, A. pl = Anasplaythyrhynchos, A. in = Arenariainterpres, B. be = Brantabernicla, C. al = Calidrisalpina, C. ca = Calidirscanutus, Ch. hi = Charadriushiaticula, Ch. ri = Chroicosephalusridibundus, H. ost = Haematopusostralegus, L. arg = Larusargentatus, L. ca = Laruscanus, L. fu = Larusfuscus, L. ma = Larusmarinus, L. fa = Limicolafalcinellus, L. lap = Limosalapponica, N. arqu = Numeniusarquata, N. phae = Numeniusphaepus, P. squa = Pluvialissquatarola, R. avo = Recurvirostraavosetta, So. mo = Somateriamollissima, Ta. ta = Tadornatadorna, T. ery = Tringaerythropus, T. ne = Tringanebularia, T. to = Tringatetanus, FTZ data in the reference list refer to unpublished data from the Research and Technology Centre (FTZ) of the University of Kiel.