The significance of Southwest Greenland as winter quarters for seabirds

Bird Conservation International

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 87-112

  Boertmann, David ^a   Lyngs, Peter ^b   Merkel, Flemming Ravn ^c   Mosbech, Anders ^a  

^a NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

^b Greenland Institute of Natural Rsrc ^*  (Denmark)

^c Greenland Institute of Natural Rsrc   (Greenland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEABIRD; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION; WINTER;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND;

ALLE ALLE; SOMATERIA MOLLISSIMA; SOMATERIA SPECTABILIS; URIA LOMVIA;

EID: 2942670027     PISSN: 09592709     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0959270904000127     Document Type: Article

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