Effects of colony location and nekton abundance on the at-sea distribution of four seabird species

Fisheries Oceanography

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 126-135

  Parrish, Julia K ^a   Lemberg, Norm ^b   South Oryshchyn, Laura ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND WILDLIFE   (United States)

Author keywords

Common murre; Glaucous winged gull; Hydroacoustics; Nekton; Rhinoceros auklet; Sooty shearwater

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BREEDING POPULATION; NEKTON; SEABIRD; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0031708251     PISSN: 10546006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2419.1998.00057.x     Document Type: Article

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