Using GPS technology to assess feeding areas of Atlantic Puffins Fratercula arctica

Ringing and Migration

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 43-49

  Harris, Michael P ^a   Bogdanova, Maria I ^a   Daunt, Francis ^a   Wanless, Sarah ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEEDING ECOLOGY; FEEDING GROUND; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GPS; SEABIRD; TRACKING;

UNITED KINGDOM;

AVES; FRATERCULA ARCTICA;

EID: 84863306183     PISSN: 03078698     EISSN: 21598355     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03078698.2012.691247     Document Type: Article

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