Seabird associations in Pacific equatorial waters

Ibis

Volumn 139, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 482-487

  Ribic, Christine A ^a   Ainley, David G ^b,c   Spear, Larry B ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b PRBO CONSERVATION SCIENCE   (United States)

^c H T HARVEY AND ASSOCIATES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRDS; ECOLOGICAL ASSOCIATIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS; SEABIRD; SPECIES ASSOCIATION;

(TROPICAL EAST); PACIFIC;

AVES; HYDROBATINAE; LEUCOPTERA; OCEANODROMA LEUCORHOA; OCEANODROMA TETHYS; PTERODROMA EXTERNA; PTERODROMA LEUCOPTERA; PTERODROMA NIGRIPENNIS; PUFFINUS PACIFICUS; SCOMBRIDAE GEN. SP.; STERNA FUSCATA;

EID: 0030846438     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.1997.tb04662.x     Document Type: Article

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