Reduction of garbage in the diet of nonbreeding glaucous gulls corresponding to a change in waste management

Arctic

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 220-226

  Weiser, Emily L ^a   Powell, Abby N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

Author keywords

Development; Diet; Glaucous gull; Human refuse; Human subsidized predators; Larus hyperboreus; Management

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BREEDING POPULATION; DIET; HABITAT CONSERVATION; INCINERATION; LANDFILL; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; SAMPLING; SCAVENGING (CHEMISTRY); SEABIRD; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WASTE DISPOSAL;

ALASKA; BARROW; UNITED STATES;

LARUS HYPERBOREUS;

EID: 79958168759     PISSN: 00040843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14430/arctic4101     Document Type: Article

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