Sub-lethal effects of an oil pollution incident on breeding kittiwakes Rissa tridactyla

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 155, Issue , 1997, Pages 261-268

  Walton, P ^a,c   Turner, C M R ^a   Austin, G ^b   Burns, M D ^a   Monaghan, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b THE NUNNERY   (United Kingdom)

^c RSPB CENTRE FOR CONSERVATION SCIENCE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anaemia; Annual survival; Breeding performance; Colony attendance; Non breeding; Oil pollution; Seabird

Indexed keywords

BIRDS; BREEDING; KITTIWAKE; OIL SPILL; OIL SPILLS; SUBLETHAL EFFECT; SUBLETHAL EFFECTS;

SCOTLAND; SHETLAND; UK;

AVES; LARUS; RISSA TRIDACTYLA;

EID: 0030987565     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps155261     Document Type: Article

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