Local movements, home ranges and body condition of Common Eiders Somateria mollissima wintering in Southwest Greenland

Ardea

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 639-650

  Merkel, Flemming R ^a,b   Mosbech, Anders ^b   Sonne, Christian ^b   Flagstad, Annette ^c   Falk, Knud ^a   Jamieson, Sarah E ^a  

^a GREENLAND INSTITUTE OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (Greenland)

^b NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Body condition; Home range; Movements; Northern Common Eider; Satellite telemetry; Site fidelity; Southwest Greenland; Winter

Indexed keywords

BODY CONDITION; BREEDING SEASON; FEEDING GROUND; HOME RANGE; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; REMOTE SENSING; ROOSTING; SITE FIDELITY; WATERFOWL;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND; NUUK;

AVES; SOMATERIA MOLLISSIMA; SOMATERIA MOLLISSIMA BOREALIS;

EID: 34248230759     PISSN: 03732266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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