Composition of beached marine birds from an oiling event in southeastern Newfoundland and Labrador, Novermber 2004

Marine Ornithology

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 141-146

  Robertson, Gregory J ^a   Ryan, Pierre C ^a   Dussureault, Johanne ^a   Turner, Bruce C ^a   Wilhelm, Sabina I ^a   Power, Kyran ^b  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Age; Alle alle; Dovekie; Newfoundland; Oil pollution; Sex; Thick billed Murre; Uria lomvia

Indexed keywords

AGE STRUCTURE; ARRIVAL DATE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; OIL SPILL; POLLUTION EFFECT; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SEABIRD; SEX RATIO;

CANADA; LABRADOR; NEWFOUNDLAND; NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR; NORTH AMERICA;

ALLE; ALLE ALLE; AVES; URIA AALGE; URIA LOMVIA;

EID: 34548083814     PISSN: 10183337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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