Managing hunted populations through sex-specific season lengths: a case of the Common Eider in the Baltic-Wadden Sea flyway population

European Journal of Wildlife Research

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 717-726

  Christensen, Thomas Kjær ^a   Hounisen, Jens Peder ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Bag size; Common Eider; Hunting; Population development; Sex differentiation; Somateria mollissima; Wildlife management

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939882863     PISSN: 16124642     EISSN: 14390574     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10344-014-0840-1     Document Type: Article

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