Modelling the occurrence and abundance of a colonial species, the arctic tern Sterna paradisaea in the archipelago of SW Finland

Ecography

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 601-611

  Heinänen, Stefan ^a   Rönkä, Mia ^b   Von Numbers, Mikael ^a  

^a ÅBO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD; BREEDING; CORRELATION; HABITAT SELECTION; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FINLAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA;

AVES; STERNA PARADISAEA;

EID: 53349096224     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: 16000587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0906-7590.2008.05410.x     Document Type: Article

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