Interactive effects of food shortage and predation on breeding failure of black-legged kittiwakes: Indirect effects of fisheries activities and implications for indicator species

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 155, Issue , 1997, Pages 249-260

  Regehr, Heidi M ^a   Montevecchi, William A ^a  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bio indicators; Breeding success; Capelin; Fishery discards; Gulls; Kittiwakes; Offal; Predation

Indexed keywords

BIRDS; BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKE; BREEDING SUCCESS; FISHERY ACTIVITY; FOOD AVAILABILITY; PREDATION; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS;

CANADA; GREAT ISLAND; NEWFOUNDLAND;

AVES; GALLUS GALLUS; LARUS; LARUS MARINUS; LETHRINIDAE; MALLOTUS VILLOSUS; RISSA TRIDACTYLA;

EID: 0030885370     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps155249     Document Type: Article

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