Mass mortality of short-tailed shearwaters in the south-eastern Bering Sea during summer 1997

Fisheries Oceanography

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 117-130

  Baduini, C L ^a,e   Hyrenbach, K D ^b   Coyle, K O ^c   Pinchuk, A ^c   Mendenhall, V ^d,f   Hunt Jr , G L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^d U States Fish and Wildlife Service   (United States)

^e The Claremont Colleges   (United States)

^f NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bering Sea; Coccolithophorid; Emiliania huxleyi; Euphausiid; Puffinus tenuirostris; Seabird die off; Short tailed shearwater; Thysanoessa

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; MASS MORTALITY; SEABIRD; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

BERING SEA;

PUFFINUS TENUIROSTRIS; THYSANOESSA INERMIS; THYSANOESSA RASCHII; THYSANOESSA SPINIFERA;

EID: 0035002533     PISSN: 10546006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2419.2001.00156.x     Document Type: Article

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