The Kongsfjorden colony of barnacle geese: Nest distribution and the use of breeding islands 1980-1997

Norsk Polarinstitutt, Skrifter

Volumn , Issue 200, 1998, Pages 57-65

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

^a NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN POLAR INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

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