Long-term dataset reveals declines in breeding success and high fluctuations in the number of breeding pairs in two skua species breeding on King George Island

• Published in: Polar Biology
• Main Authors: Krietsch, Johannes, Esefeld, Jan, Braun, Christina, Lisovski, Simeon, Peter, Hans-Ulrich
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Antarctic; King George Island; Fildes; Fildes peninsula; Potter Peninsula; Antarc*; Antarctica; Polar Biology; South Polar Skuas
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/52134/; https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/52134/1/Krietsch_et_al-2016-PolBiol.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-015-1808-7; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.372a1415-cb9d-4adc-acd7-fb7b3d81f4ca; https://hdl.handle.net/

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