Status of the three Svalbard goose populations

Norsk Polarinstitutt, Skrifter

Volumn , Issue 200, 1998, Pages 7-17

  Madsen, Jesper ^a   Black, Jeffrey M ^b,c,d   Clausen, Preben ^a  

^a National Environmental Research Institute of Denmark   (Denmark)

^b WILDFOWL AND WETLANDS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d HUMBOLDT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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