Fledging success of little auks in the high Arctic: do provisioning rates and the quality of foraging grounds matter?

Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 37 Số 5 - Trang 665-674 - 2014
Johanna Hovinen1,2, Katarzyna Wojczulanis‐Jakubas3, Dariusz Jakubas3, Haakon Hop1, Jørgen Berge4, Dorota Kidawa3, Nina J. Karnovsky5, Harald B. Steen1
1Norwegian Polar Institute, Fram Centre, Tromsø, Norway
2University Centre in Svalbard, Longyearbyen, Norway
3Department of Vertebrate Ecology and Zoology, University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland
4Faculty of Biosciences, Fisheries and Economics, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway
5Department of Biology, Pomona College, Claremont, USA

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