Whiskered Auklets Aethia pygmaea, foxes, humans and how to right a wrong

Marine Ornithology

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 175-180

  Williams, Jeffrey C ^a   Byrd, G Vernon ^a   Konyukhov, Nikolai B ^b  

^a Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge   (United States)

^b SEVERTSOV INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Aethia pygmaea; Aleutian Islands; Arctic fox; Population regulation; Predation; Roosting; Whiskered Auklet

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; CANID; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; PREDATION; SEABIRD;

ALASKA; ALEUTIAN ISLANDS; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; KURIL ISLANDS; NORTH AMERICA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SAKHALIN; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

AETHIA; AETHIA PYGMAEA; ALOPEX LAGOPUS; CANIDAE; CICONIIFORMES; LAGOPUS; VULPES;

EID: 8644242196     PISSN: 10183337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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