Choosing between feeding on Zostera and salt marsh: Factors affecting habitat use by brent geese in spring

Norsk Polarinstitutt, Skrifter

Volumn , Issue 200, 1998, Pages 277-294

  Clausen, Preben ^a  

^a Natl Environ Research Institute   (Denmark)

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