Modeling bird mortality associated with the M/V Citrus oil spill off St. Paul Island, Alaska

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 117, Issue 2-3, 1999, Pages 261-267

  Flint, Paul L ^a   Fowler, Ada C ^a   Rockwell, Robert F ^b  

^a Alaska Biological Science Center   (United States)

^b Amer Mus Nat Hist Ctrl Pk W ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Bird mortality; Detection probability; Oil spill; Persistence rate

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; MODELING; MORTALITY; OIL SPILL;

UNITED STATES;

AVES; CITRUS; SOMATERIA SPECTABILIS;

EID: 0033577659     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3800(99)00006-X     Document Type: Article

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