Low abundance of King eider nests during low lemming years in Northeast Greenland

• Main Authors: Benoît Sittler, Olivier Gilg, Thomas B. Berg
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2000
• Subjects: Arctic; Greenland; Collier; Alopex lagopus; Arctic Fox; Arctique*; Dicrostonyx groenlandicus; Groenland; King Eider; Somateria spectabilis; Traill Island
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.408.8728; http://www.helsinki.fi/~ihanski/Articles_by_others/Arctic 2000 Sittler et al.pdf

ABSTRACT. Long-term surveys on Traill Island (Northeast Greenland) show that numbers of king eider (Somateria spectabilis) nests are correlated with high densities of collared lemming (Dicrostonyx groenlandicus). These observations match other zoological records from this region and agree with simil...