Increasing and expanding populations of breeding Northern Fulmars in Atlantic Canada

Waterbirds

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 382-391

  Stenhouse, Ian J ^a   Montevecchi, William A ^a  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

Atlantic Canada; Breeding population; Breeding range; Fulmarus glacialis; Northern Fulmar; Range expansion

Indexed keywords

BREEDING POPULATION; POPULATION GROWTH; RANGE EXPANSION; SEABIRD;

ATLANTIC COAST; CANADA;

FULMARUS GLACIALIS; PROCELLARIIDAE; PROCELLARIIFORMES;

EID: 0033500929     PISSN: 07386028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1522114     Document Type: Article

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