The importance of Southwest Greenland for wintering seabirds

British Birds

Volumn 99, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 282-298

  Boertmann, David ^a   Mosbech, Anders ^a   Merkel, Flemming Ravn ^b  

^a NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

^b GREENLAND INSTITUTE OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (Greenland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREEDING POPULATION; COASTAL WATER; HUNTING; SEABIRD;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND;

ALLE ALLE; AVES; PINGUINUS; SOMATERIA MOLLISSIMA; SOMATERIA SPECTABILIS; URIA LOMVIA;

EID: 33745079492     PISSN: 00070335     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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