An approach to the assessment of change in the numbers of canada geese branta canadensis and greylag geese anser anser in southern britain: Population change in geese was assessed using an approach that requires a relatively small sampling effort

Bird Study

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 50-59

  Rehfisch, Mark M ^a   Austin, Graham E ^a   Holloway, Steve J ^a   Allan, John R ^b   O’connell, Mark O ^c  

^a THE NUNNERY   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRAL SCIENCE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^c WILDFOWL AND WETLANDS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Branta

Indexed keywords

BREEDING SEASON; HABITAT TYPE; POPULATION DENSITY; STRATIFICATION; WATERFOWL;

(SOUTH); UNITED KINGDOM;

ANAS; ANATIDAE; ANSER; ANSER ANSER; ANSER SP.; AVES; BRANTA; BRANTA CANADENSIS;

EID: 0036241027     PISSN: 00063657     EISSN: 19446705     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00063650209461244     Document Type: Article

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