Trophic interactions under climate fluctuations: The Atlantic puffin as an example

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 270, Issue 1523, 2003, Pages 1461-1466

  Durant, Joël M ^a,c   Anker Nilssen, Tycho ^b   Stenseth, Nils Chr ^c  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Breeding success; Climate; Population dynamics; Sea temperature; Seabirds; Trophic interactions

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE; FOOD AVAILABILITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEABIRD; TROPHIC INTERACTION;

ARTICLE; BREEDING; CLIMATE; ECOLOGY; FOOD AVAILABILITY; NONHUMAN; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEABIRD; STATISTICAL MODEL; TEMPERATURE;

NORWAY; ROST;

CLUPEA; CLUPEA HARENGUS; FRATERCULA ARCTICA; LARIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0037485846     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2003.2397     Document Type: Article

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