Food intake, body reserves and reproductive success of barnacle geese Branta leucopsis staging in different habitats

Norsk Polarinstitutt, Skrifter

Volumn , Issue 200, 1998, Pages 175-193

  Prop, Jouke ^a,b   Black, Jeffrey M ^b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b WILDFOWL AND WETLANDS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d HUMBOLDT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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