Geographic, temporal, and age-specific variation in diets of Glaucous Gulls in western Alaska

Condor

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 119-130

  Schmutz, Joel A ^a   Hobson, Keith A ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alaska; Carbon 13; Foraging ecology; Geese; Glaucous Gull; Larus hyperboreus; Nitrogen 15; Predation; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

ANSER; ANSER SP.; AVES; ELEGINUS GRACILIS; GADUS MORHUA; GALLUS GALLUS; LARUS HYPERBOREUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031933736     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1369903     Document Type: Article

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