Island breeding and continental feeding: How are diet patterns in adult yellow-legged gulls influenced by landfill accessibility and breeding stages?

Ecoscience

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 502-508

  Duhem, Céline ^a,b   Vidal, Éric ^a   Roche, Philip ^a   Legrand, Jérôme ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b PACA   (France)

Author keywords

Breeding stages; Dependence on landfills; Diet; Food avalaibility; Larus (cachinnans) michahellis; Multivariate analysis

Indexed keywords

BREEDING; DIET; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; ISLAND; LANDFILL;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

LARUS; LARUS MICHAHELLIS;

EID: 0348167907     PISSN: 11956860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/11956860.2003.11682798     Document Type: Article

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