Status of the Red-footed Booby on the Xisha Archipelago, South China Sea

Waterbirds

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 411-419

  Cao, Lei ^a,b   Pang, Yong Liang ^a   Liu, Nai Fa ^a  

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Breeding colony size; Census; China; Red footed Booby; Sula sula; Threats

Indexed keywords

BREEDING POPULATION; HABITAT; NESTING; SEABIRD;

PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH CHINA SEA;

AVES; PISONIA GRANDIS; SULA SULA;

EID: 33646259269     PISSN: 15244695     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1675/1524-4695(2005)28[411:SOTRBO]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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