Effects of the Exxon Valdez oil spill on habitat use by birds along the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska

Condor

Volumn 99, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 728-742

  Day, Robert H ^a   Murphy, Stephen M ^a   Wiens, John A ^b   Hayward, Gregory D ^b,d   Harner, E James ^c   Lawhead, Brian E ^a  

^a ABR Inc   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^c WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

Alaska; Ecological perturbation; Environmental impact; Exxon Valdez oil spill; Habitat use; Oil pollution; Recovery; Seabirds

Indexed keywords

ACCIPITER STRIATUS; ACCIPITRINAE; AVES; GAVIA IMMER; MERGUS MERGANSER;

EID: 0030760769     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1370484     Document Type: Article

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