The biology of the Little Tern in the Ebro Delta (Northwestern Mediterranean)

Waterbirds

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 434-440

  Oro, Daniel ^a   Bertolero, Albert ^a   Martínez Vilalta, Albert ^b,c   López, Miquel Angel ^b  

^a INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

^b Parc Natural Delta de l' Ebre   (Spain)

^c Zoologia   (Spain)

Author keywords

Breeding parameters; Colony site selection; Little Tern; Sterna albifrons

Indexed keywords

CLUTCH SIZE; EGG SIZE; HABITAT SELECTION; POPULATION SIZE; REPRODUCTION; SEABIRD;

CATALONIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EBRO DELTA; EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN; TARRAGONA [CATALONIA]; WORLD;

CHARADRIIFORMES; LARIDAE; LARUS AUDOUINII; LARUS MICHAHELLIS; LARUS RIDIBUNDUS; STERNA ALBIFRONS;

EID: 13644282999     PISSN: 15244695     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1675/1524-4695(2004)027[0434:TBOTLT]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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