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

• Main Authors: Joiris, Claude, Kampp, Kaj, Tahon, Jacques, Kristensen, Reinhardt Møbjerg
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 1997
• Subjects: Océanographie biologique; Océanographie physique et chimique; Evolution des espèces; Ecologie; Arctic; Greenland; Seabirds; Fulmar; Alle alle; 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: http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/163996; https://dipot.ulb.ac.be/dspace/bitstream/2013/163996/1/Elsevier_147626.pdf

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 observati...