Apex marine predator declines ninety percent in association with changing oceanic climate

Global Change Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 23-28

  Veit, Richard R ^a   McGowan, John A ^b   Ainley, David G ^c   Wahl, Terence R ^d   Pyle, Peter ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c H T HARVEY AND ASSOCIATES   (United States)

^d Point Reyes Bird Observatory ^*  (United States)

^e PRBO CONSERVATION SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

California Current; Climate change; Ocean warming; Puffinus griseus; Sooty Shearwater

Indexed keywords

BIRDS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATIC CHANGE; DECLINE; OCEAN WARMING; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION NUMBER; POPULATION SIZE; SOOTY SHEARWATER;

PACIFIC, CALIFORNIA CURRENT;

AVES; CICONIIFORMES; PUFFINUS GRISEUS;

EID: 0031005673     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2486.1997.d01-130.x     Document Type: Article

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