Hydrographic features, cetaceans and the foraging of thick-billed murres and other marine birds in the northwestern Barents Sea

Arctic

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 243-252

  Mehlum, Fridtjof ^a   Hunt Jr , George L ^b   Decker, Mary Beth ^b   Nordlund, Nina ^a,c  

^a NORWEGIAN POLAR INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Fugro Geoteam Limited   (United States)

Author keywords

Barents Sea; Cetaceans; Foraging ecology; Marine birds; Thick billed murre; Uria lomvia

Indexed keywords

DIET; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HYDROGRAPHY; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; SEABIRD;

BARENTS SEA;

BALAENOPTERA ACUTOROSTRATA; BOREOGADUS SAIDA; LAGENORHYNCHUS ALBIROSTRIS; MALLOTUS VILLOSUS; RISSA TRIDACTYLA; URIA LOMVIA;

EID: 0031717837     PISSN: 00040843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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