Environmental forcing and Southern Ocean marine predator populations: Effects of climate change and variability

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 362, Issue 1488, 2007, Pages 2351-2365

  Trathan, P N ^a   Forcada, J ^a   Murphy, E J ^a  

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate change; Rapid; Recent; Regional warming

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; DECADAL VARIATION; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ECOSYSTEM STRUCTURE; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FOOD WEB; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; POLAR REGION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATOR; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; TROPHIC LEVEL;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); EUPHAUSIACEA;

ANIMAL; ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; PENGUIN; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION; SEA; SEAL; WHALE;

ANIMALS; ANTARCTIC REGIONS; ECOSYSTEM; FUR SEALS; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; OCEANS AND SEAS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SPHENISCIDAE; WHALES;

EID: 34548062480     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2006.1953     Document Type: Article

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