The extent of chronic marine oil pollution in southeastern Newfoundland waters assessed through beached bird surveys 1984-1999

Marine Pollution Bulletin

Volumn 46, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1090-1101

  Wiese, Francis K ^a,c   Ryan, Pierre C ^b  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Beached bird surveys; Murre hunt; North Atlantic; Oil fingerprinting; Oil pollution; Oil Vulnerability Index; Seabirds; Ship traffic

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; LUBRICANTS;

OIL POLLUTION;

MARINE POLLUTION;

OIL; WATER;

MARINE POLLUTION; OIL SPILL; SEABIRD; SHIPPING;

BIRD; CANADA; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEATH; DUMPING; FEATHER; HEALTH SURVEY; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; SEA POLLUTION; WEATHER;

(NORTH); ATLANTIC OCEAN; CANADA; NEWFOUNDLAND;

AVES; CICONIIFORMES; LARIDAE; URIA LOMVIA;

EID: 0042918054     PISSN: 0025326X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0025-326X(03)00250-9     Document Type: Article

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