Identifying ecologically important marine areas for seabirds using behavioural information in combination with distribution patterns

Biological Conservation

Volumn 156, Issue , 2012, Pages 22-29

  Camphuysen, Kees C J ^a   Shamoun Baranes, Judy ^b   Bouten, Willem ^b   Garthe, Stefan ^c  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Census techniques; Data integration; Marine important bird areas; Seabird behaviour

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PROTECTED AREA; SEABIRD; SENSOR; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SURVEYING; TRACKING;

AVES;

EID: 84871920616     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2011.12.024     Document Type: Article

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