The abundance and distribution of marine wild-life around the vast Canadian Arctic archipelago remain poorly known. Many of the key marine bird sites in this region were discovered during early Arctic exploration (e.g. Sverdrup 1904), but remained unexplored by biologists until broad, regional surve...

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Main Authors: Mark L. Mallory, H. Grant Gilchrist
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 2005
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Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.689.3570
http://gull-research.org/papers/papers5/6255-16541-1-PB.pdf
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Summary:The abundance and distribution of marine wild-life around the vast Canadian Arctic archipelago remain poorly known. Many of the key marine bird sites in this region were discovered during early Arctic exploration (e.g. Sverdrup 1904), but remained unexplored by biologists until broad, regional surveys were conducted in the early 1970s (Nettleship 1974). For selected species, some additional information was gathered in the