Foraging ecology of short-tailed shearwaters near the Pribilof Islands, Bering Sea

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 141, Issue 1-3, 1996, Pages 1-11

  Hunt Jr , George L ^a   Coyle, Kenneth O ^b   Hoffman, Susan ^a,c   Decker, Mary Beth ^a   Flint, Elizabeth N ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d U S FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bering Sea; Euphausiids; Fronts; Puffinus tenuirostris; Seabird foraging; Short tailed shearwater; Thysanoessa raschii

Indexed keywords

CICONIIFORMES; EUPHAUSIIDAE; PUFFINUS TENUIROSTRIS; THYSANOESSA; THYSANOESSA RASCHII;

BIRDS; FORAGING BEHAVIOUR; FRONTS; SHORT-TAILED SHEARWATER;

USA, ALASKA, PRIBILOF ISLANDS;

EID: 0029664158     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps141001     Document Type: Article

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