Diets of top predators indicate pelagic juvenile rockfish (Sebastes spp.) abundance in the California Current System

Fisheries Oceanography

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 273-283

  Mills, K L ^a,c   Laidig, T ^b   Ralston, S ^b   Sydeman, W J ^a  

^a PRBO CONSERVATION SCIENCE   (United States)

^b SOUTHWEST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^c Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge   (United States)

Author keywords

California Current System; Cepphus columba; Cerorhinca monocerata; Chinook salmon; Climate variability; Diet; Ecosystem approach; Indicators; Oncorhynchus tshawytscha; Principal Component Analysis; Rockfish; Seabirds; Sebastes; Uria aalge

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; DIET; JUVENILE; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MARINE MAMMAL; PELAGIC FISH; PREDATOR; PREY AVAILABILITY; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SALMONID; SEABIRD; TELEOST;

CALIFORNIA; CALIFORNIA CURRENT; FARALLON ISLANDS; NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC OCEAN; UNITED STATES;

AVES; CEPPHUS COLUMBA; CERORHINCA MONOCERATA; MAMMALIA; ONCORHYNCHUS TSHAWYTSCHA; SEBASTES; URIA AALGE;

EID: 34247385096     PISSN: 10546006     EISSN: 13652419     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2419.2007.00429.x     Document Type: Article

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