Summer distribution and migration of nonbreeding albatrosses: Individual consistencies and implications for conservation

Ecology

Volumn 86, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 2386-2396

  Phillips, Richard A ^a   Silk, Janet R D ^a   Croxall, John P ^a   Afanasyev, Vsevolod ^a   Bennett, Victoria J ^a  

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conservation; Differential migration; Interspecific competition; Sexual segregation; Winter philopatry

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION; MIGRATION;

AVES; CICONIIFORMES; DIOMEDEA MELANOPHRIS; THALASSARCHE MELANOPHRYS;

EID: 23944517201     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/04-1885     Document Type: Article

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