Distribution, survival, and numbers of lesser snow geese of the western Canadian Arctic and Wrangel Island, Russia: Project overview.

Occasional Paper of the Canadian Wildlife Service

Volumn , Issue 98, 1999, Pages 15-24

  Kerbes, Richard H ^a   Meeres, Katherine M ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MONITORING; POPULATION ECOLOGY; TAGGING; WATERFOWL;

CANADA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

ANSER CAERULESCENS;

EID: 0032852115     PISSN: 05766370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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