Literature (in chronological order)

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  • Stempniewicz L. 1981 Breeding biology of the Little Auk, Plautus alle in the Hornsund region, SW Spitsbergen. Acta Ornithologica 18, 141-165
  • Stempniewicz L. 1982 Body proportions in adults and fledglings of the Little Auk. Acta Zool. Cracov. 26, 149-158
  • Stempniewicz L. 1986 Factors causing changes in the rhythm of attendance of the Little Auks, Plautus alle (L), at a colony during the breeding season in Svalbard. Ekologia Polska 34, 247-263
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  • Stempniewicz L. 1989 Dovekie juvenile plumage dimorphism. Colonial Waterbirds 12, 123-125
  • Stempniewicz L. 1990 Assessment of the Dovekie excreta biomass fertilizing the tundra in the vicinity of a breeding colony. Colonial Waterbirds 13, 62-65
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  • Stempniewicz L. 1995 Predator-prey interactions between Glaucous Gull Larus hyperboreus and Little Auk Alle alle in Spitsbergen. Acta Ornithologica 29, 155-170
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  • Węsławski J.M., Koszteyn J, Kwaśniewski S, Stempniewicz L, Malinga M. 1999 Summer food resources of the little auk (Alle alle) in the European Arctic seas. Polish Polar Research 20, 387- 403
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  • Jakubas D., Wojczulanis K. 2007 Predicting the Sex of Dovekies by Discriminant Analysis. Waterbirds 30(1): 92-96
  • Steen H., Vogedes D., Broms F., Falk-Petersen S. and Berge J. 2007 Little auks (Alle alle) breeding in a high Arctic fjord system: bimodal foraging strategies as a response to poor food quality. Polar Research 26:118-125
  • Stempniewicz L., Błachowiak-Samołyk K., Węsławski J.M. 2007 Impact of climate change on zooplankton communities, seabird populations and Arctic terrestrial ecosystem - a scenario. Deep-Sea Research, 54, 2934-2433
  • Błachowiak-Samołyk K. 2008 Contrasting zooplankton communities (Arctic vs. Atlantic) in the European Arctic Marginal Ice Zone. Oceanologia 50: 363-389
  • Jakubas D., Wojczulanis K. 2008 Variable copulatory behavior in little auk (Alle alle). Waterbirds 31(4): 670-674
  • Jakubas D., Wojczulanis-Jakubas K., Kreft R. 2008 Sex differences in body condition and hematological parameters in Little Auk Alle alle during the incubation period. Ornis Fennica 85: 90-97
  • Jakubas D., Zmudczyńska K., Wojczulanis-Jakubas K., Stempniewicz L. 2008 Faeces deposition and numbers of vertebrate herbivores in the vicinity of planktivorous and piscivorous seabird colonies in Hornsund, Spitsbergen. Polish Polar Research 29(1), 45-58
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  • Żmudczyńska K., Zwolicki A., Barcikowski M., Iliszko L., Stempniewicz L. 2008 Variability of individual biomass and leaf size of Saxifraga nivalis L. along a transect between seabirds colony and seashore in Hornsund, Spitsbergen. Ecological Questions 9:37-44
  • Falk-Petersen S., Mayzaud P., Kattner G. 2009 Lipids, life strategy and trophic relationships of Calanus hyperboreus, C. glacialis and C. finmarchicus in the Arctic. Marine Biology Research 5:18-39
  • Wojczulanis-Jakubas K., Jakubas D., Oigarden T., Lifjeld J.T. 2009 Extrapair copulations are frequent but unsuccessful in a highly colonial seabird, the little auk, Alle alle. Animal Behaviour 77:433-438
  • Welcher J., Steen H., Harding A.M.A. and Gabrielsen G.W. 2009 Sex-specific provisioning behavior in a monomorphic seabird with a biomodal foraging strategy. IBIS (accepted)
  • Welcher J., Harding A.M.A., Karnovsky N.J., Steen H., Strom H. and Gabrielsen G.W. 2009 Flexibility in the biomodal foraging strategy of a high Arctic alcid, the little auk Alle Alle. Journal of Avian Biology (accepted)
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