Development of an arctic barnacle goose colony: Interactions between density and predation

Norsk Polarinstitutt, Skrifter

Volumn , Issue 200, 1998, Pages 67-79

  Loonen, Maarten J J E ^a   Tombre, Ingunn M ^b   Mehlum, Fridtjof ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^c NORWEGIAN POLAR INSTITUTE   (Norway)

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