Census of breeding seabirds on the northwest coast of Svalbard 1973 and 1978

• Published in: Polar Research
• Main Authors: Kempf, Christian, Sittler, Benoit
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Norwegian Polar Institute 1998
• Subjects: Arctic; Svalbard; Prins Karls Forland; Kong Karls Land; Verlegenhuken; Gråhuken; Polar Research; Verlegenhuk*
• Online Access: https://polarresearch.net/index.php/polar/article/view/2435; https://doi.org/10.3402/polar.v6i2.6863

The western coast of Svalbard is one of the world's most important seabird regions (Belopol'skij 1961; Løvenskiold 1964; Norderhaug et al. 1977), due to the favourable water temperatures, light regime and amounts of mineral salts (Norderhaug et al. 1977). Seabirds have been censused severa...