Incomplete search effort: A potential source of bias in estimates of Adélie penguin breeding populations in the Australian Antarctic Territory

Polar Record

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 375-380

  Southwell, Colin ^a   Smith, David ^a   Bender, Angela ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC DIVISION   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BREEDING POPULATION; BREEDING SITE; GIS; MAPPING METHOD; SEABIRD;

ANTARCTIC PENINSULA; ANTARCTICA; WEST ANTARCTICA;

PYGOSCELIS ADELIAE; SPHENISCIDAE;

EID: 76449084906     PISSN: 00322474     EISSN: 14753057     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0032247409008444     Document Type: Article

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