Evaluation of bird impacts in historical oil spill cases using the SIMAP oil spill model

Environment Canada Arctic and Marine Oil Spill Program Technical Seminar (AMOP) Proceedings

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 421-452

  French McCay, Deborah ^a   Rowe, Jill J ^a  

^a Applied Science Associates Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOINFORMATICS; BIRDS; MAPPING; OIL SPILLS; POPULATION STATISTICS; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS;

BIOLOGICAL IMPACTS; EDMONTON , ALBERTA; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FIELD OBSERVATIONS; LOCAL POPULATIONS; OBSERVATIONAL DATA; QUANTITATIVE ERROR ANALYSIS; TECHNICAL SEMINARS;

MARINE POLLUTION;

EID: 11244331767     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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