Demographic responses to mercury exposure in two closely related antarctic top predators

Ecology

Volumn 95, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1075-1086

  Goutte, A ^a   Bustamante, P ^a   Barbraud, C ^a   Delord, K ^a   Weimerskirch, H ^a   Chastel, O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LA ROCHELLE   (France)

Author keywords

Brown skua; Capture recapture; Catharacta lonnbergi; Catharacta maccormicki; Heavy metals; Pollution; Population dynamics; Population projections; Reproductive performance; South polar skua; Southern ocean; Survival

Indexed keywords

MERCURY;

ANIMAL; ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; CHARADRIIFORMES; CLIMATE CHANGE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULUS; WATER POLLUTANT;

ANIMALS; ANTARCTIC REGIONS; CHARADRIIFORMES; CLIMATE CHANGE; MERCURY; POPULUS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84898419748     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/13-1229.1     Document Type: Article

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