Indirect effects of the availability of capelin and fishery discards: Gull predation on breeding storm-petrels

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 184, Issue , 1999, Pages 303-307

  Stenhouse, Ian J ^a   Montevecchi, William A ^a  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

Capelin; Fishery discards; Gulls; Indirect effects; Predation; Storm petrels

Indexed keywords

FISHERY DISCARD; PREDATION; SEABIRD;

CICONIIFORMES; GALLUS GALLUS; HYDROBATINAE; LARUS; MALLOTUS VILLOSUS; OCEANODROMA LEUCORHOA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0033612673     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps184303     Document Type: Article

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