Multicolony tracking reveals the winter distribution of a pelagic seabird on an ocean basin scale

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 530-542

  Frederiksen, Morten ^a   Moe, Børge ^b   Daunt, Francis ^c   Phillips, Richard A ^d   Barrett, Robert T ^e   Bogdanova, Maria I ^c   Boulinier, Thierry ^f   Chardine, John W ^g   Chastel, Olivier ^f   Chivers, Lorraine S ^h   Christensen Dalsgaard, Signe ^b   Clément Chastel, Céline ^f   Colhoun, Kendrew ⁱ   Freeman, Robin ^j   Gaston, Anthony J ^k   González Solís, Jacob ^l   Goutte, Aurélie ^f   Grémillet, David ^f   Guilford, Tim ^j   Jensen, Gitte H ^a   Krasnov, Yuri ^m   Lorentsen, Svein Håkon ^b   Mallory, Mark L ^g   Newell, Mark ^c   Olsen, Bergur ⁿ   Shaw, Deryk ^o   Steen, Harald ^p   Strøm, Hallvard ^p   Systad, Geir H ^b   Thórarinsson, Thorkell L ^q   Anker Nilssen, Tycho ^b   more..

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^c CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^d BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^f CNRS   (France)

^g ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^h QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ RSPB CENTRE FOR CONSERVATION SCIENCE   (United Kingdom)

^j UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^k CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^l UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^m MURMANSK MARINE BIOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

ⁿ FAROE MARINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Faroe Islands)

^o Fair Isle Bird Observatory   (United Kingdom)

^p NORWEGIAN POLAR INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^q Northeast Iceland Nature Center   (Iceland)

more..

Author keywords

Black legged kittiwake; Geolocation; Migration; Non breeding ecology; North Atlantic; Rissa tridactyla

Indexed keywords

BREEDING POPULATION; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DATA ACQUISITION; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; GIS; MIGRATORY SPECIES; PELAGIC ENVIRONMENT; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION SIZE; SEABIRD; SPECIES CONSERVATION; TRACKING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

AVES; LARUS; RISSA TRIDACTYLA;

EID: 84860626001     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2011.00864.x     Document Type: Article

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