Estimates of Southern Rockhopper and Macaroni Penguin numbers at the Ildefonso and Diego Ramírez Archipelagos, Chile, using quadrat and distance-sampling techniques

Waterbirds

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 259-267

  Kirkwood, Roger ^a,b   Lawton, Kieran ^a   Moreno, Carlos ^c   Valencia, Jose ^d   Schlatter, Roberto ^c   Robertson, Graham ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC DIVISION   (Australia)

^b Phillip Island Nature Park   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSIDAD AUSTRAL DE CHILE   (Chile)

^d Instituto Antarctico Chileno   (Chile)

Author keywords

Diego Ram rez; Distance sampling; Eudyptid; Ildefonso; Macaroni Penguin; Nest occupation; Rockhopper Penguin; Status

Indexed keywords

BREEDING SITE; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION ESTIMATION; SAMPLING; SEABIRD;

CHILE; DIEGO RAMIREZ; MAGALLANES; SOUTH AMERICA;

SPHENISCIDAE;

EID: 34547426396     PISSN: 15244695     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1675/1524-4695(2007)30[259:EOSRAM]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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