Age-specific stopover ecology of black brant at Humboldt Bay, California

Wilson Journal of Ornithology

Volumn 119, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 9-22

  Lee, Derek E ^a,c   Black, Jeffrey M ^a   Moore, Jeffrey E ^a,d   Sedinger, Jim S ^b,e  

^a HUMBOLDT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^c PRBO CONSERVATION SCIENCE   (United States)

^d PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMIGRATION; IMMIGRATION; MODEL; RADIOTELEMETRY; STOPOVER; WATERFOWL;

CALIFORNIA; HUMBOLDT BAY; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

AVES; BRANTA BERNICLA NIGRICANS;

EID: 33947510174     PISSN: 15594491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1676/05-153.1     Document Type: Article

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