Monitoring Daily Activity and Parental Food Provisioning in the Atlantic Puffin (Fratercula arctica) by the Use of Camera Traps

• Main Author: Hornset, Kristin
• Other Authors: Sonerud, Geir, Steen, Ronny, Strøm, Hallvard
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås 2017
• Subjects: Atlantic puffin; Fratercula arctica; Bjørnøya; camera trap; VDP::Matematikk og Naturvitenskap: 400::Zoologiske og botaniske fag: 480::Økologi: 488; Svalbard; Norway; Lunde; Hornøya; Lunden; Enden; Daubed shanny; Finnmark; fratercula; Leptoclinus maculatus; Norsk Polarinstitutt; Norwegian Polar Institute
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11250/2464673

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