Habitat and temporal variation in diet of Great Cormorant nestlings in Greek colonies

Waterbirds

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 424-437

  Liordos, Vasilios ^a,b   Goutner, Vassilis ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Commercial value of prey; Great Cormorant; Greece; Nestling diet variability; Phalacrocorax carbo sinensis

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BREEDING SEASON; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DIET; NESTLING; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TEMPORAL VARIATION; WADER;

EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

ALBURNUS ALBURNUS; ALOSA FALLAX; AVES; CARASSIUS AURATUS; CARASSIUS AURATUS GIBELIO; CHALCALBURNUS BELVICA; GOBIUS; GOBIUS NIGER; PHALACROCORAX CARBO; PHALACROCORAX CARBO SINENSIS; RUTILUS RUTILUS; SARDINELLA AURITA;

EID: 58049193719     PISSN: 15244695     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1675/1524-4695-31.3.424     Document Type: Article

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