Habitat selection and breeding success in Yellow-legged Gulls Larus cachinnans

Ibis

Volumn 140, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 415-421

  Bosch, Marc ^a   Sol, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HABITAT SELECTION; NEST SITE SELECTION; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; YELLOW-LEGGED GULL;

MEDES ISLANDS; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

LARUS CACHINNANS;

EID: 0031835029     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919x.1998.tb04602.x     Document Type: Article

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