Sea birds as proxies of marine habitats and food webs in the western Aleutian Arc

Fisheries Oceanography

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 45-55

  Springer, Alan M ^a   Piatt, John F ^b   Van Vliet, Gus ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b US National Biological Service   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aleutian Islands; Bering Sea; Food web; Forage fish; Marine ecology; Sea bird

Indexed keywords

AMMODYTES HEXAPTERUS; AMMODYTES MARINUS; AVES; CEPHALOPODA; GALLIFORMES; LARIDAE; LARUS; MYCTOPHIDAE; PISCES; RISSA BREVIROSTRIS; RISSA TRIDACTYLA; URIA AALGE; URIA LOMVIA;

BIRD; BIRDS; ECOLOGICAL DISTRIBUTION; FISH; FOOD WEB; FOOD WEBS; INDICATOR SPECIES; PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT; PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENTS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

PACIFIC, ALEUTIAN ARC;

EID: 0029668459     PISSN: 10546006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2419.1996.tb00016.x     Document Type: Article

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