Individual winter movement strategies in two species of murre (Uria spp.) in the Northwest Atlantic

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  McFarlane Tranquilla, Laura A ^a   Montevecchi, William A ^a   Fifield, David A ^a,e   Hedd, April ^a   Gaston, Anthony J ^b   Robertson, Gregory J ^c   Phillips, Richard A ^d  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^d BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^e Government of Newfoundland and Labrador   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MIGRATION; MURRE; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM COLONY; POPULATION MOVEMENT PATTERN; SEABIRD; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES HABITAT; TRAVEL; URIA AALGE; URIA LOMVIA; WINTER; ANIMAL; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CHARADRIIFORMES; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION MIGRATION; SEASON;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CHARADRIIFORMES; SEASONS;

EID: 84898792591     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0090583     Document Type: Article

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