Scale-dependent correlations between the abundance of Brunnich's guillemots and their prey

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 60-72

  Mehlum, Fridtjof ^a,d   Hunt Jr , George L ^b   Klusek, Zygmunt ^c   Decker, Mary Beth ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN POLAR INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Poland)

^d Zoological Museum   (Norway)

Author keywords

Aggregative response; Brunnich's guillemots; Foraging ecology; Scale dependence; Uria lomvia

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; PATCH USE; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SCALE EFFECT; SEABIRD;

SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

AMPHIPODA; BOREOGADUS SAIDA; EUPHAUSIACEA; PARATHEMISTO; THYSANOESSA INERMIS; URIA LOMVIA;

EID: 0032895925     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2656.1999.00267.x     Document Type: Article

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