Critical components in the dynamics of a barnacle goose colony: A sensitivity analysis

Norsk Polarinstitutt, Skrifter

Volumn , Issue 200, 1998, Pages 81-89

  Tombre, Ingunn M ^a   Black, Jeffrey M ^b,c,d   Loonen, Maarten J J E ^e  

^a NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^b WILDFOWL AND WETLANDS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d HUMBOLDT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

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