Southern Giant Petrels Macronectes giganteus starve to death while on the Antarctic continent

Marine Ornithology

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 111-114

  Creuwels, Jeroen C S ^a,b   Stark, J S ^c   Petz, W ^d   Van Franeker, J A ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC DIVISION   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MORTALITY; SEABIRD; STARVATION;

ANTARCTICA; ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC; WORLD;

CICONIIFORMES; MACRONECTES GIGANTEUS;

EID: 22244447755     PISSN: 10183337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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