Habitat associations of nesting Spectacled Eiders on the Arctic Coastal Plain of Alaska

Occasional Paper of the Canadian Wildlife Service

Volumn , Issue 100, 1999, Pages 27-33

  Anderson, Betty A ^a   Johnson, Charles B ^a   Cooper, Brian A ^a   Smith, Louise N ^a   Stickney, Alice A ^a  

^a ABR Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HABITAT STRUCTURE; NEST SITE; WATERFOWL;

UNITED STATES;

SOMATERIA FISCHERI;

EID: 0033500857     PISSN: 05766370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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