Feeding ecology of sympatric European shags Phalacrocorax aristotelis and great cormorants P. carbo in Iceland

Marine Biology

Volumn 149, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 979-990

  Lilliendahl, Kristjan ^a   Solmundsson, Jon ^a  

^a MARINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Iceland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD; BREEDING SEASON; COMMERCIAL SPECIES; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FISH; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PREDATION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SYMPATRY;

ARCTIC; EURASIA; EUROPE; ICELAND;

AMMODYTES MARINUS; AVES; GADIDAE; GADIFORMES; MYOXOCEPHALUS SCORPIUS; PHALACROCORACIDAE; PHALACROCORAX ARISTOTELIS; PHALACROCORAX CARBO; PHOLIS GUNNELLUS; PLEURONECTES PLATESSA; PLEURONECTIFORMES; POLLACHIUS VIRENS;

EID: 33745593745     PISSN: 00253162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00227-006-0259-7     Document Type: Article

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