Low abundance of king eider nests during low lemming years in Northeast Greenland

Arctic

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 53-60

  Sittler, Benoît ^a   Gilg, Olivier ^b,c   Berg, Thomas B ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^d Department of Arctic Environment   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Alopex lagopus; Arctic fox; Collared lemming; Dicrostonyx groenlandicus; Greenland; King eider; Population cycles; Predation; Somateria spectabilis

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; NESTING; POPULATION ECOLOGY; PREDATION; RODENT; WATERFOWL;

GREENLAND; TRAILL ISLAND;

ALOPEX LAGOPUS; ANAS; ANSER; ANSER SP.; CANIDAE; DICROSTONYX GROENLANDICUS; DICROSTONYX TORQUATUS; LAGOPUS; MAMMALIA; RODENTIA; SOMATERIA SPECTABILIS;

EID: 0034093587     PISSN: 00040843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14430/arctic834     Document Type: Article

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