Spatial and temporal patterns in the diet of the Kelp Gull in Patagonia

Condor

Volumn 101, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 790-798

  Bertellotti, Marcelo ^a,b   Yorio, Pablo ^a,c  

^a CENTRO NACIONAL PATAGÓNICO   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA PATAGONIA SAN JUAN BOSCO   (Argentina)

^c WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (United States)

Author keywords

Diet; Feeding ecology; Kelp Gull; Lares dominicanus; Patagonia

Indexed keywords

GALLUS GALLUS; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA; LARES; LARUS DOMINICANUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032751854     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1370066     Document Type: Article

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