Diet of imperial cormorants phalacrocorax atriceps breeding at Central Patagonia, Argentina

Waterbirds

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 70-78

  Yorio, Pablo ^a,b   Copello, Sofa ^c   Kuba, Luisa ^a   Gosztonyi, Atila ^a   Quintana, Flavio ^a,b  

^a Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

^b WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE MAR DEL PLATA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Argentina; Diet; Imperial Cormorant; Patagonia; Phalacrocorax atriceps

Indexed keywords

BREEDING; CLUPEOID; CRUSTACEAN; DIET; GADOID; PREY SELECTION; SEABIRD;

PATAGONIA;

CRUSTACEA; MERLUCCIUS HUBBSI; MOLLUSCA; PHALACROCORACIDAE; PHALACROCORAX ATRICEPS; PLEOTICUS MUELLERI; RANEYA BRASILIENSIS;

EID: 77950255718     PISSN: 15244695     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1675/063.033.0108     Document Type: Article

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