Research on arctic geese : proceedings of the Svalbard Goose Symposium, Oslo, Norway, 23-26 September 1997

The current volume consists of 26 peer-reviewed papers on Svalbard geese that were presented at the Svalbard Goose Symposium held in Oslo, Norway, 23-26 September 1997. The Symposium was hosted by the Norwegian Polar Institute and was a follow-up of a similar symposium held in Oslo in 1983. The proceedings of the successful meeting in 1983 were published in a separate volume of Norsk Polarinstitutt Skrifter, Nr. 181, in 1984. That volume stimulated new and exciting research initiatives on the barnacle, pink-footed and light-bellied brent goose populations that breed in Svalbard.