The importance of prey aggregations to the distribution of Brunnich's guillemots in Storfjorden, Svalbard

Polar Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 537-547

  Mehlum, Fridtjof ^a   Hunt Jr , George L ^b   Klusek, Zygmunt ^c   Decker, Mary Beth ^b   Nordlund, Nina ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN POLAR INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVES; BOREOGADUS SAIDA; CRUSTACEA; GADUS MORHUA; LARIDAE; PARATHEMISTO; THYSANOESSA INERMIS; URIA LOMVIA;

BIRDS; BRUNNICH'S GUILLEMOT; DISTRIBUTION; FORAGING BEHAVIOUR; PREY AGGREGATIONS;

SVALBARD, STORFJORDEN;

EID: 85047680023     PISSN: 07224060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02329050     Document Type: Article

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