Little auks (Alle alle) breeding in a High Arctic fjord system: Bimodal foraging strategies as a response to poor food quality?

Polar Research

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 118-125

  Steen, Harald ^a   Vogedes, Daniel ^b   Broms, Fredrik ^a   Falk Petersen, Stig ^a   Berge, Jørgen ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN POLAR INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY CENTRE IN SVALBARD   (Norway)

Author keywords

Alle alle; Breeding; Calanus spp.; Foraging strategy; Svalbard

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; BREEDING; BREEDING POPULATION; BREEDING SEASON; FJORD; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; SEABIRD; SIMILARITY INDEX;

ARCTIC; SPITSBERGEN; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

ALCIDAE; ALLE ALLE; AVES; CALANUS; CALANUS HYPERBOREUS; PINGUINUS;

EID: 34548227412     PISSN: 08000395     EISSN: 17518369     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-8369.2007.00022.x     Document Type: Article

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