Population trends of gentoo penguins pygoscelis papua breeding at the falkland islands

Marine Ornithology

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-5

  Baylis, Alastair M M ^a,b   Crofts, Sarah ^a   Wolfaardt, Anton C ^c  

^a FALKLANDS CONSERVATION   (Falkland Islands (Malvinas))

^b DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c Joint Nature Conservation Committee   (Falkland Islands (Malvinas))

Author keywords

Long term monitoring; Population census; Seabirds; South atlantic

Indexed keywords

ARCHIPELAGO; BREEDING POPULATION; CENSUS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION SIZE; SEABIRD;

FALKLAND ISLANDS (MALVINAS);

EID: 84878759247     PISSN: 10183337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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