Mass-length relationships and energy content of fishes and invertebrates delivered to nestling Thick-billed Murres Uria lomvia in the Canadian Arctic, 1981-2007

Marine Ornithology

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 25-34

  Elliott, Kyle Hamish ^a   Gaston, Anthony J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ammodytes; Cottidae; Diet; Eumesogrammus; Gymnelus; Leptoclinus; Liparis; Mallotus; Mass length; Nunavut; Squid; Stichaeus; Thick billed Murre; Triglops; Uria lomvia

Indexed keywords

COLONY; DIET; INVERTEBRATE; NESTLING; SEABIRD;

CANADA; CANADIAN ARCTIC; HUDSON BAY; NORTH AMERICA; NUNAVUT;

AMMODYTES; CEPHALOPODA; COTTIDAE; EUMESOGRAMMUS; EUMESOGRAMMUS PRAECISUS; GONATUS; GYMNELUS; INVERTEBRATA; LEPTOCLINUS; LEPTOCLINUS MACULATUS; MALLOTUS (FISH); MALLOTUS VILLOSUS; PISCES; STICHAEUS; STICHAEUS PUNCTATUS; TRIGLOPS; URIA LOMVIA;

EID: 50449084806     PISSN: 10183337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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