Response of pigeon guillemots to variable abundance of high-lipid and low-lipid prey

Oecologia

Volumn 132, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 286-295

  Litzow, Michael A ^a,b   Piatt, John F ^b   Prichard, Alexander K ^c   Roby, Daniel D ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^d OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate; Exxon Valdez; Food limitation; Junk food hypothesis; Seabird

Indexed keywords

FOOD LIMITATION; OIL SPILL; PISCIVORE; POPULATION DECLINE; PREY AVAILABILITY; SEABIRD;

UNITED STATES;

AMMODYTES HEXAPTERUS; AMMODYTES MARINUS; AVES; CEPPHUS COLUMBA; COLUMBA; LARIDAE; PISCES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0036942431     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-002-0945-1     Document Type: Article

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