Quality of food consumed by overwintering pale-bellied Brent geese branta bernicla hrota and wigeon anas penelope

Biology and Environment

Volumn 97, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 81-89

  Mathers, R G ^a   Montgomery, W I ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

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