Scale-dependent spatial variance patterns and correlations of seabirds and prey in the southeastern Bering Sea as revealed by spectral analysis

Ecography

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 212-223

  Logerwell, Elizabeth A ^a,b   Hewitt, Roger P ^c   Demer, David A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Southwest Fisheries Sciences Center   (United States)

^c SOUTHWEST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PREDATOR-PREY RELATIONSHIP; SEABIRD; SPATIAL SCALE; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; THICK-BILLED MURRE;

BERING SEA;

URIA LOMVIA;

EID: 0031972440     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.1998.tb00674.x     Document Type: Article

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