At-sea distribution of seabirds and marine mammals around Svalbard, summer 1991

• Main Author: Joiris, Claude
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 1996
• Subjects: Sciences bio-médicales et agricoles; Arctic; Svalbard; Barents Sea; Greenland; Fulmar; Alle alle; Fulmarus glacialis; Greenland Sea; little auk; Polar Biology; Storfjorden; Spitsbergen; uria
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/194051

At-sea distribution of seabirds and marine mammals was quantitatively determined during the Arctic EPOS cruise of RV Polarstern, from 21 June till 28 July 1991, during 377 half-an-hour counts. Data were expressed as numbers per count and as density, and daily food intake was calculated using allomet...