Nesting ecology of marbled murrelets at a remote mainland fjord in southeast Alaska

Condor

Volumn 116, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 173-184

  Barbaree, Blake A ^a,e   Nelson, S Kim ^a   Dugger, Bruce D ^a   Roby, Daniel D ^a   Carter, Harry R ^b   Whitworth, Darrell L ^c   Newman, Scott H ^d  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Carter Biological Consulting   (Canada)

^c California Institute of Environmental Studies   (United States)

^d Emergency Centre for Transboundary Animal Diseases   (Italy)

^e PRBO CONSERVATION SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

Alaska; Alcid; Brachyramphus marmoratus; Breeding; Marbled murrelet; Telemetry

Indexed keywords

EID: 84982196263     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1650/CONDOR-13-116.1     Document Type: Article

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