Seabirds as indicators: An exploratory analysis of physical forcing in the Pacific Northwest coastal environment

Estuaries

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1044-1057

  Parrish, Julia K ^a   Zador, Stephani G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOINDICATOR; COASTAL WATER; PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY; POPULATION DENSITY; SEABIRD;

(NORTHWEST); PACIFIC OCEAN;

AVES; LARIDAE; URIA AALGE;

EID: 0142102339     PISSN: 01608347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02803362     Document Type: Article

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