The transboundary nature of seabird ecology

Landscape-scale Conservation Planning

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 139-165

  Jodice, Patrick G R ^a   Suryan, Robert M ^b  

^a CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Contaminants; Environmental forcing; Fisheries bycatch; Foraging; Marine conservation

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052951604     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-9575-6_8     Document Type: Chapter

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