The Sea Empress oil spill (Wales, UK): Effects on Common Scoter Melanitta nigra in Carmarthen Bay and status ten years later

Marine Pollution Bulletin

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 895-902

  Banks, A N ^a   Sanderson, W G ^b   Hughes, B ^c   Cranswick, P A ^c   Smith, L E ^c   Whitehead, S ^b   Musgrove, A J ^a   Haycock, B ^b   Fairney, N P ^d  

^a THE NUNNERY   (United Kingdom)

^b Countryside Council for Wales ^*  (United Kingdom)

^c WILDFOWL AND WETLANDS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^d ATKINS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Crude oil; Ecosystem health; Population recovery; Seaducks; Shipwreck; Wales

Indexed keywords

BIRDS; CRUDE PETROLEUM; ECOSYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION;

CARMARTHEN BAY; FOOD RESOURCES; POPULATION RECOVERY; PREDATORS; SHIPWRECK;

OIL SPILLS;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FEEDING GROUND; HABITAT USE; MORTALITY; OIL SPILL; POLLUTION EFFECT; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; REGENERATION; SEABIRD;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUCKS AND GEESE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; MELANITTA NIGRA; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; OIL SPILL; UNITED KINGDOM;

ACCIDENTS; ANIMALS; ANSERIFORMES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; PETROLEUM; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SHIPS; WALES; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

CARMARTHEN BAY; CARMARTHENSHIRE; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WALES; WESTERN EUROPE;

AVES; MELANITTA; MELANITTA NIGRA;

EID: 43349095379     PISSN: 0025326X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2008.01.032     Document Type: Article

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