Correlates of predator abundance with snow and ice conditions and their role in determining timing of nesting and breeding success in Svalbard light-bellied brent geese Branta bernicla hrota

Norsk Polarinstitutt, Skrifter

Volumn , Issue 200, 1998, Pages 221-234

  Madsen, Jesper ^a   Bregnballe, Thomas ^a   Frikke, John ^a,b   Kristensen, Jan Bolding ^a,c  

^a D   (Denmark)

^b Ribe County   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

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