Seabird breeding performance during two years of delayed capelin arrival in the northwest Atlantic: A multi-species comparison

Waterbirds

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 60-67

  Regehr, Heidi M ^a,b   Rodway, Michael S ^b  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Breeding season; Capelin; Food availability; Fratercula arctica; Gulls; Kittiwakes; Larus spp.; Murres; Oceanodroma leucorhoa; Puffins; Pursuit divers; Reproductive success; Rissa tridactyla; Storm petrels; Surface feeders; Uria aalge

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; FOOD AVAILABILITY; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEABIRD; TROPHIC INTERACTION;

(NORTHWEST); ATLANTIC OCEAN;

CICONIIFORMES; CLUPEA HARENGUS; FRATERCULA ARCTICA; GALLUS GALLUS; HYDROBATINAE; LARIDAE; LARUS; LARUS ARGENTATUS; LARUS MARINUS; MALLOTUS VILLOSUS; OCEANODROMA LEUCORHOA; RISSA TRIDACTYLA; URIA AALGE;

EID: 0033399342     PISSN: 07386028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1521994     Document Type: Article

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