Marine birds in the marginal ice zone of the Barents Sea in late winter and spring

Arctic

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 53-61

  Hunt Jr , George L ^a   Bakken, Vidar ^b   Mehlum, Fridtjof ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NORWEGIAN POLAR INSTITUTE   (Norway)

Author keywords

Alle alle; Barents Sea; Black legged kittiwake; Dovekie; Fulmarus glacialis; Marginal ice zone; Marine birds; Northern fulmar; Rissa tridactyla; Thick billed murre; Uria lomvia

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIRDS; DISTRIBUTION; MARGINAL ICE ZONE;

BARENTS SEA;

URIA LOMVIA;

EID: 0029731598     PISSN: 00040843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14430/arctic1183     Document Type: Article

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