Individual migratory patterns of two threatened seabirds revealed using stable isotope and geolocation analyses

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 317-329

  Militão, Teresa ^a   Bourgeois, Karen ^b   Roscales, Jose L ^a,c   González Solís, Jacob ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b AVIGNON UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c INSTITUTO DE QUÍMICA ORGÁNICA GENERAL   (Spain)

Author keywords

Global location sensing units; Intrinsic markers; Migration strategies; Moulting; Pelagic seabirds

Indexed keywords

BREEDING SITE; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FEATHER; HUMAN ACTIVITY; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; MIGRATION ROUTE; MOLT; MOVEMENT; PELAGIC ECOSYSTEM; RADIOTELEMETRY; SEABIRD; STABLE ISOTOPE; TRACKING;

AEGEAN SEA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTHEAST); BLACK SEA; FRANCE; HYERES ISLANDS; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; PROVENCE-ALPES-COTE D'AZUR; VAR;

AVES; PROCELLARIIDAE; PUFFINUS MAURETANICUS; PUFFINUS YELKOUAN;

EID: 84874203812     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2012.00916.x     Document Type: Article

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