Causes and consequences of individual variability and specialization in foraging and migration strategies of seabirds

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• Publication year

  2017

• Venue

  Marine Ecology Progress Series

• Publication date

  2017-08-31

• Fields of study

  Biology, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.3354/MEPS12217
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