Movement of barnacle geese between colonies in Svalbard and the colonisation process

Norsk Polarinstitutt, Skrifter

Volumn , Issue 200, 1998, Pages 115-127

  Black, Jeffrey M ^a,b,c  

^a WILDFOWL AND WETLANDS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c HUMBOLDT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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