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First scientific expedition to Ile des Pingouins, Archipel Crozet

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2009

Ph. Dreux
Affiliation:
ENS, Laboratoire de Zoologie, 46 rue d'Ulm, 75230 Paris, France
Y. Frenot
Affiliation:
Université de Rennes I, Station Biologique de Paimpont, 35380 Plelan le Grand, France
P. Jouventin
Affiliation:
CEBAS, Villiers en Bois, 779360 Beauvoir/Niort, France
L. Massé
Affiliation:
Université de Rennes I, Laboratoire de Botanique L. Daniel, Campus de Beaulieu, 35042 Rennes Cedex, France
O. Verdier
Affiliation:
UPMC, Laboratoire de Pétrologie, Tour 26E3, 4 Place Jussieu, 75005 Paris, France

Abstract

From 14 November to 12 December 1986 a five-man team surveyed Ile des Pingouins, an islandin the lies Crozet archipelago only once previously visited by scientists. Supported by Terres Australes et Antarctiques Francaises (TAAF), the team investigated the geology, climate, botany, invertebrate zoology and ornithology of the island.

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Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1988

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