Population size and trends of the Galápagos Penguin Spheniscus mendiculus

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Volumn 147, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 367-374

  Vargas, Hernán ^a,b   Lougheed, Cecilia ^a,c   Snell, Howard ^a,d  

^a Charles Darwin Foundation   (Ecuador)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EL NINO; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION SIZE; SEABIRD; TREND ANALYSIS;

SPHENISCIDAE; SPHENISCUS MENDICULUS;

EID: 17444403588     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919x.2005.00412.x     Document Type: Article

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