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Seasonal importance of oceanic myctophids in king penguin diet at Crozet Islands

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  1. Y. Cherel

    Present address: Centre d'Etudes Biologiques de Chizé, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Villiers-eu-Bois, BP14, 79360, Beauvoir-sur-Niort, France

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  1. Centre d'Ecologie et de Physiologie Energétiques, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 23 rue Becquerel, 67087, Strasbourg, France

    Y. Cherel & C. Verdon

  2. Océanopolis, Port de Plaisance du Moulin Blanc, 29200, Brest, France

    V. Ridoux

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Cherel, Y., Verdon, C. & Ridoux, V. Seasonal importance of oceanic myctophids in king penguin diet at Crozet Islands. Polar Biol 13, 355–357 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00238362

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