Spatial aggregations of seabirds and their prey on the continental shelf off SW Vancouver Island

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 283, Issue , 2004, Pages 279-292

  Burger, Alan E ^a   Hitchcock, Christine L ^b   Davoren, Gail K ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Continental shelf; Foraging guilds; Predator prey interactions; Scale; Seabirds; Spatial distribution; Vancouver Island

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION BEHAVIOR; CONTINENTAL SHELF; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SEABIRD; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; VANCOUVER ISLAND; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

AVES; CICONIIFORMES; LARIDAE; LARUS; LARUS CALIFORNICUS; PUFFINUS; PUFFINUS GRISEUS; URIA; URIA AALGE;

EID: 11244278942     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps283279     Document Type: Article

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