| iv
| List of tables
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| vii
| List of figures and captions
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| Introduction:
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| 1
| Acknowledgments, itinerary, general methods.
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| Environmental description:
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| 7
| Topography, climate, vegetation, seasonal changes in avifauna, microtine rodent populations
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| 14
| General characteristics of jaegers
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| 16
| Population biology of the pomarine jaeger
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| 38
| Population biology of the parasitic jaeger
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| 47
| Population biology of the long-tailed jaeger
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| 52
| Summary and discussion of population biology
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| 55
| Territoriality
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| 74
| Some aspects of breeding biology
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| 83
| Gonad cycle
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| 93
| Growth characteristics
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| 103
| Food habits and predation
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| General discussion:
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| 124
| Competition, function of territories, origins, adaptations of jaegers to the arctic
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| 141
| Summary
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| 144
| Literature cited
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| Cover to Cover
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