Spatio-temporal variation in mortality rates of White-chinned Petrels Procellaria aequinoctialis interacting with longliners in the south-west Atlantic

Bird Conservation International

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 359-366

  Laich, Agustina Gómez ^a   Favero, Marco ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE MAR DEL PLATA   (Argentina)

^b Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD; CAPTURE METHOD; MORTALITY; POPULATION SIZE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (SOUTHWEST); PATAGONIAN SHELF;

PROCELLARIA AEQUINOCTIALIS; PROCELLARIIDAE;

EID: 37049007199     PISSN: 09592709     EISSN: 14740001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0959270907000895     Document Type: Article

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