Inter-breeding movements of little auks Alle alle reveal a key post-breeding staging area in the Greenland Sea

Polar Biology

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 305-311

  Mosbech, Anders ^a   Johansen, Kasper L ^a   Bech, Nikolaj I ^a   Lyngs, Peter ^a   Harding, Ann M A ^b   Egevang, Carsten ^c   Phillips, Richard A ^d   Fort, Jerome ^a,e  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b ALASKA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c GREENLAND INSTITUTE OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (Greenland)

^d NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^e CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Alle alle; Geolocator; Inter breeding distribution; Migration; Moult; Stopover site

Indexed keywords

BREEDING SEASON; CLIMATE CHANGE; FLY; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HUMAN ACTIVITY; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MOLT; MOVEMENT; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; SEABIRD; STOPOVER;

ARCTIC OCEAN; CANADA; GREENLAND SEA; NEWFOUNDLAND; NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR; NORWEGIAN SEA;

ALLE ALLE; AVES; PINGUINUS;

EID: 84855340029     PISSN: 07224060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00300-011-1064-4     Document Type: Article

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