Recent responses to changes in stocks of prey species by seabirds breeding in the southern Barents Sea

ICES Journal of Marine Science

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 713-722

  Barrett, Robert T ^a   Krasnov, Yuri V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^b Kandalaksha State Nature Reserve   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

diet; guillemots; kittiwakes; puffins; trophic relationships

Indexed keywords

BIRDS; BREEDING POPULATIONS; BREEDING SUCCESS; DIET; GUILLEMOT; KITTIWAKE; POPULATION DECLINE; PREY SPECIES; PUFFIN; STOCK COLLAPSE;

BARENTS SEA;

AVES; CLUPEA HARENGUS; FRATERCULA ARCTICA; GALLUS GALLUS; LARIDAE; LARUS; MALLOTUS VILLOSUS; RISSA TRIDACTYLA; URIA AALGE;

EID: 0030201534     PISSN: 10543139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmsc.1996.0090     Document Type: Article

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