Linking variation in penguin responses to pedestrian activity for best practise management on subantarctic macquarie island

Polarforschung

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 7-15

  Holmes, Nick D ^a,b,c   Giese, Melissa ^b   Kriwoken, Lorne K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC DIVISION   (Australia)

^c Kauai Endangered Seabird Recovery Project   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; ECOTOURISM; GROUP SIZE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; PEDESTRIAN; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEABIRD; SUBANTARCTIC REGION;

ANTARCTICA; AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; MACQUARIE ISLAND; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN;

APTENODYTES PATAGONICUS; EUDYPTES SCHLEGELI; PYGOSCELIS PAPUA; SPHENISCIDAE;

EID: 47249096583     PISSN: 00322490     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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