Status of the Baltic/Wadden Sea population of the Common Eider Somateria m. mollissima

Wildfowl

Volumn 53, Issue , 2002, Pages 167-203

  Desholm, M ^a   Christensen, T K ^a   Scheiffarth, G ^b   Hario, M ^c   Andersson, A ^d   Ens, B ^e   Camphuysen, C J ^f   Nilsson, L ^g   Waltho, C M ^d   Lorentsen, S H ^h   Kuresoo, A ⁱ   Kats, R K H ^e,j   Fleet, D M ^d   Fox, A D ^a  

^a Environmental Research Institute   (Denmark)

^b INSTITUTE OF AVIAN RESEARCH VOGELWARTE HELGOLAND   (Germany)

^c FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^d Alterra ^*  (Germany)

^e WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^f ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^g LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^h NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

ⁱ ESTONIAN AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Estonia)

^j UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

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Author keywords

Avian Cholera; Conservation; Duckling viral infection; Hunting; Mass starvation; Monitoring

Indexed keywords

HUNTING; MONITORING; OVERWINTERING; POPULATION DECLINE; SPECIES CONSERVATION; STARVATION; VIRAL DISEASE; WATERFOWL;

DENMARK;

ANAS; ANAS SP.; ANATIDAE; ANSER; AVES; GALLIFORMES; SOMATERIA; SOMATERIA MOLLISSIMA;

EID: 0038374713     PISSN: 09546324     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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