Modeling foraging range for breeding colonies of thick-billed murres Uria lomvia in the Eastern Canadian Arctic and potential overlap with industrial development

Biological Conservation

Volumn 168, Issue , 2013, Pages 134-143

  Gaston, Anthony J ^a   Elliott, Kyle H ^b   Ropert Coudert, Yan ^c,d   Kato, Akiko ^c,d   Macdonald, Christie A ^a   Mallory, Mark L ^e   Gilchrist, H Grant ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^d CNRS   (France)

^e ACADIA UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Arctic; Central Place Foraging; Marine transport; Seabirds

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BREEDING POPULATION; CENTRAL PLACE FORAGING; COLONY; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; GPS; HABITAT CONSERVATION; INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT; MAPPING; POPULATION SIZE; SEABIRD; SEAWATER;

CANADA; CANADIAN ARCTIC;

EID: 84886309001     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2013.09.018     Document Type: Article

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