Summer distribution of seabirds in the North-East Water polynya, Greenland

• Main Authors: Joiris, Claude R., Kampp, Kaj, Tahon, Jacques, Kristensen, Reinhardt Møbjerg
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 1997
• Subjects: Arctic; Fulmar; Greenland; Alle alle; brünnich's guillemot; Fulmarus glacialis; Glaucous Gull; ivory gull; Larus hyperboreus; little auk; Odobenus rosmarus; Pagophila eburnea; rissa tridactyla; Somateria mollissima; Uria lomvia; Zooplankton; uria; walrus*
• Online Access: https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/52314/; https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/52314/1/3224.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1016/S0924-7963%2896%2900107-8; https://doi.org/10.1016/S0924-7963(96)00107-8

The distribution at sea of seabirds was studied in the North-East Water (NEW) polynya, Greenland, during transect counts in the summers of 1991, 1992 and 1993 on board the ice-breaking RVs Polarstern and Polar Sea. Data collected within the polynya ‘box’ (78–82°N; 5–18°W) concern observations of 800...