Declines amongst breeding Eider Somateria mollissima numbers in the Baltic/Wadden Sea flyway

Ornis Fennica

Volumn 89, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 81-90

  Ekroos, Johan ^a   Fox, Anthony D ^b   Christensen, Thomas K ^b   Petersen, Ib K ^b   Kilpi, Mikael ^a   Jónsson, Jón E ^e   Green, Martin ^f   Laursen, Karsten ^b   Cervencl, Anja ^c   De Boer, Peter ^d   Nilsson, Leif ^f   Meissner, Włodzimierz ^g   Garthe, Stefan ^h   Öst, Markus ^a  

^a NOVIA UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Finland)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d SOVON DUTCH CENTRE FOR FIELD ORNITHOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^f LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^g UNIVERSITY OF GDA SK   (Poland)

^h UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MONITORING; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; SEABIRD; SEX RATIO; SURVIVAL;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA; NORTH SEA; WADDEN SEA;

AVES; SOMATERIA MOLLISSIMA;

EID: 84862125460     PISSN: 00305685     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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