An ethical issue in biodiversity science: The monitoring of penguins with flipper bands

Comptes Rendus - Biologies

Volumn 334, Issue 5-6, 2011, Pages 378-384

  Le Maho, Yvon ^a,b   Saraux, Claire ^a,b,c   Durant, Joël M ^d   Viblanc, Vincent A ^a,b   Gauthier Clerc, Michel ^e   Yoccoz, Nigel G ^f   Stenseth, Nils C ^d,g   Le Bohec, Céline ^a,b,d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c AGROPARISTECH   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^e STATION BIOLOGIQUE DE LA TOUR DU VALAT   (France)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^g INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Banding; Disturbance; Impact; Population dynamics; Scientific biases

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; BIODIVERSITY; BIOENERGETICS; DISTURBANCE; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ETHICS; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; INJURY; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MARKING METHOD; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEABIRD; SURVIVAL; TRACKING;

BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; BREEDING; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; ETHICS; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; MONITORING; NONHUMAN; PENGUIN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RADIOFREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION; REVIEW; SURVIVAL RATE; TISSUE INJURY;

ANIMALIA; AVES; SPHENISCIDAE;

EID: 79958059861     PISSN: 16310691     EISSN: 17683238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crvi.2011.04.004     Document Type: Article

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