Trans-Equatorial Migration Routes, Staging Sites and Wintering Areas of a High-Arctic Avian Predator: The Long-tailed Skua (Stercorarius longicaudus)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Gilg, Olivier ^a,b   Moe, Børge ^c   Hanssen, Sveinn Are ^c   Schmidt, Niels Martin ^d   Sittler, Benoît ^b,e   Hansen, Jannik ^d   Reneerkens, Jeroen ^f   Sabard, Brigitte ^b   Chastel, Olivier ^g   Moreau, Jérôme ^a,b   Phillips, Richard A ^h   Oudman, Thomas ^f,i   Biersma, Elisabeth M ^f,h   Fenstad, Anette A ^j   Lang, Johannes ^b,k   Bollache, Loïc ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

^b Groupe de Recherche en Ecologie Arctique   (France)

^c NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^d AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^g CNRS   (France)

^h BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^j NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^k Institute of Animal Ecology and Nature Education   (Germany)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTUMN; BREEDING; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; LONG TAILED SKUA; NONHUMAN; POPULATION MIGRATION; POPULATION RESEARCH; SEABIRD; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPRING; STERCORARIUS LONGICAUDUS; WINTER;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; ARCTIC REGIONS; BIRDS; BREEDING; GREENLAND; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SEASONS; SVALBARD; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84877975193     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0064614     Document Type: Article

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