Preliminary study on nesting Adélie penguins disturbance by unmanned aerial vehicles

CCAMLR Science

Volumn 23, Issue , 2016, Pages 1-16

  Korczak Abshire, M ^a   Kidawa, A ^a   Zmarz, A ^b   Storvold, R ^c   Karlsen, S R ^c   Rodzewicz, M ^d   Chwedorzewska, K ^a   Znoj A ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND BIOPHYSICS   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^c Northern Research Institute Tromsø   (Norway)

^d WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

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