Environmental changes and population trends of breeding waterfowl in northern Baltic Sea

Annales Zoologici Fennici

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 587-602

  Rönkä, Mia T H ^a   Saari, C Lennart V ^b   Lehikoinen, Esa A ^a   Suomela, Janne ^c   Häkkilä, Kauko ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c Finland's Environmental Administration   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EUTROPHICATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; WATERFOWL; WEATHER;

ARCHIPELAGO SEA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA;

ANAS; ANAS PLATYRHYNCHOS; ANATIDAE; BUCEPHALA CLANGULA; CYGNUS OLOR; FULICA ATRA; MELANITTA FUSCA; PODICEPS CRISTATUS; SOMATERIA MOLLISSIMA;

EID: 30744438822     PISSN: 0003455X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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