Birds and mammals of the Lena Delta Nature Reserve, Siberia

Arctic

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 118-133

  Gilg, Olivier ^a,b,c   Sané, Raphaël ^c   Solovieva, Diana V ^d,e   Pozdnyakov, Vladimir I ^f   Sabard, Brigitte ^c   Tsanos, Dimitri ^c   Zöckler, Christoph ^g   Lappo, Elena G ^h   Syroechkovski Jr , Evgeny E ⁱ   Eichhorn, Goetz ^j  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^c Ctr d'Etud Docum sur les M   (France)

^d Lena Delta Nature Reserve   (Russian Federation)

^e Intl Biol Stn Lena Nordenskiold ^*  (Russian Federation)

^f Intl Biol Stn Lena Nordenskiold   (Russian Federation)

^g UNITED NATIONS ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMME WORLD CONSERVATION MONITORING CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^h INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY   (Russian Federation)

ⁱ SEVERTSOV INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION   (Russian Federation)

^j GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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Author keywords

Birds; Densities; Distribution; Lena Delta; Mammals; Predation; Siberia

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; AVIFAUNA; BREEDING POPULATION; MAMMAL; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

LENA DELTA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SIBERIA;

CALIDRIS;

EID: 0033901048     PISSN: 00040843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14430/arctic842     Document Type: Article

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