Effects of motorboats and personal watercraft on flight behavior over a colony of common terns

Condor

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 528-534

  Burger, Joanna ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Boats; Common Terns; Disturbance; Personal watercraft; Sterna hirundo

Indexed keywords

AVES; HIRUNDO; LARIDAE; STERNA HIRUNDO;

EID: 0031878298     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1369719     Document Type: Article

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