The Greenland White-fronted Goose Anser albifrons flavirostris

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National Environmental Research Institute ISBN 87-7772-719-3 Ministry of the Environment The annual cycle of a migratory herbivore on the European continental fringe The Greenland White-fronted Goose Anser albifrons flavirostris
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Contents Summary ..................
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Summary The Greenland White-fronted
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Greenland White-fronted Geese are u
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Dansk resumé Den grønlandske blis
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1 Introduction 1.1 Why Greenland Wh
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The Greenland White-fronted Goose i
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more direct measures of 'body condi
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2Limits to population size in recen
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Despite the morphological similarit
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Scotland, the wettest peat soils we
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of this goose population. At the sa
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Spring count 16000 12000 8000 4000
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3 Accumulation of body stores and t
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Body mass (g) 3500 3000 2500 adult
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h -1 and none showed any sign of re
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labelled water), the precise extent
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4 Spring staging in Iceland and the
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Body mass (g) Body mass (g) 4000 35
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Goose droppings/m 2 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 P
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er 3KJ was a behaviourally dominant
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5 Pre-nesting feeding 5.1 Introduct
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imagery and searches in helicopters
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6 Reproduction 6.1 Breeding distrib
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predicted that at the end of this p
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Page 55 and 56: Mean age of first breeding 8 7 6 5
Page 57 and 58: periods in each winter as the exten
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Page 61 and 62: 7 Moult of flight feathers 7.1 Intr
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Page 65 and 66: of available fresh green growth of
Page 67 and 68: 8 Survival 8.1 Introduction Almost
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Page 73 and 74: lands. This process was certainly u
Page 75 and 76: 9 Synthesis 9.1 Anticipatory acquis
Page 77 and 78: Mass based on API scores 3600 3200
Page 79 and 80: social system has traditionally reg
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Page 89 and 90: 10 Acknowledgements A thesis is sup
Page 91 and 92: mark and to Ebbe Bøgebjerg for the
Page 93 and 94: L. Kramer, J.N. Kristiansen, T. Lai
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Page 97 and 98: mussels, Mytilus edulis. Journal of
Page 99 and 100: Nichols, J.D. (1991) Extensive moni
Page 101 and 102: Thompson, S.C. & Raveling, D.G. (19
Page 103: 12Appended manuscripts 1: Fox, A.D.
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