Survival estimates of adult sooty terns Sterna fuscata from Bird Island, Seychelles

Ibis

Volumn 146, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 475-480

  Feare, Chris J ^a,b   Doherty Jr , Paul F ^c  

^a WildWings Bird Management   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMERCIAL SPECIES; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION ESTIMATION; SEABIRD; SURVIVAL; SUSTAINABILITY; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

ANTARCTICA; BIRD ISLAND; SOUTH GEORGIA;

AVES; LARIDAE; STERNA; STERNA FUSCATA;

EID: 3142756640     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919x.2004.00288.x     Document Type: Article

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