Influence of trawling activity on the breeding ecology of a threatened seabird, Audouin's gull Larus audouinii

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 139, Issue 1-3, 1996, Pages 19-29

  Oro, Daniel ^a   Jover, Lluis ^a   Ruiz, Xavier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Discards; Ebro Delta; Fisheries; Food shortage; Laridae; Reproduction; Seabirds; Western Mediterranean

Indexed keywords

LARUS AUDOUINII;

AUDOUIN GULL; BREEDING; DISCARDS; FOOD SHORTAGE; TRAWLING;

SPAIN, EBRO DELTA;

EID: 0029662823     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps139019     Document Type: Article

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