Can surveillance radar be used to monitor the foraging distribution of colonially breeding alcids?

Condor

Volumn 105, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 145-150

  Lilliendahl, Kristjan ^a   Solmundsson, Jon ^a   Gudmundsson, Gundmundur A ^b   Taylor, Lorna ^a  

^a MARINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Iceland)

^b ICELANDIC INSTITUTE OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Iceland)

Author keywords

Alcids; At sea densities; Breeding; Distribution; Radar; Temporal changes

Indexed keywords

ALCIDAE; AVES; CICONIIFORMES;

EID: 0037324906     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1650/0010-5422(2003)105[145:CSRBUT]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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