Diet and contamination of the Yelkouan Shearwater Puffinus yelkouan in the Hyères archipelago, Mediterranean Basin, France

Journal of Ornithology

Volumn 152, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 947-953

  Bourgeois, Karen ^a   Vorenger, Justine ^b   Faulquier, Lucie ^a   Legrand, Jérôme ^a   Vidal, Eric ^a  

^a AVIGNON UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

Author keywords

Diet; Metals; Organic contaminants; Procellariiformes; Yelkouan Shearwater

Indexed keywords

BIOACCUMULATION; BIOMASS; DDT; DIET; EGG; FEEDING; PCB; SEABIRD;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

CLUPEIDAE; CRUSTACEA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); ENGRAULIDAE; PROCELLARIIFORMES; PUFFINUS YELKOUAN; SCOMBRIDAE;

EID: 80052822576     PISSN: 21937192     EISSN: 21937206     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10336-011-0677-2     Document Type: Article

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