Colonial nesters in a deteriorating habitat: Site fidelity and colony dynamics of lesser snow geese

Auk

Volumn 115, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 642-652

  Ganter, Barbara ^a,b   Cooke, Fred ^a,c  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Simon Fraser University ^*  (Germany)

^c SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE STRUCTURE; BREEDING SITE FIDELITY; COLONIAL NESTING; HABITAT DETERIORATION;

CHEN CAERULESCENS CAERULESCENS;

EID: 0031847061     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/4089413     Document Type: Article

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