Mixed species aggregations feeding upon herring and sandlance schools in a nearshore archipelago depend on flooding tidal currents

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 261, Issue , 2003, Pages 243-255

  Zamon, Jeannette E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Herring; Physical biological coupling; Predator prey dynamics; San Juan Islands; Sandlance; Seabirds; Tidal currents

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SEABIRD; TIDAL CURRENT;

NORTH AMERICA; SAN JUAN ISLANDS; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES];

AVES; CLUPEA HARENGUS; PISCES;

EID: 0242456837     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps261243     Document Type: Article

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