Linking sandeel consumption and the likelihood of starvation in harbour porpoises in the Scottish North Sea: Could climate change mean more starving porpoises?

Biology Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 185-188

  MacLeod, Colin D ^a   Santos, M Begoña ^a   Reid, Robert J ^b   Scott, Beth E ^a   Pierce, Graham J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b SCOTTISH AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate change; Harbour porpoise; Sandeels

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIET; EEL; HARBOR; PORPOISE; PREY AVAILABILITY; STARVATION;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EEL; FOOD AVAILABILITY; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PORPOISE; PREDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STARVATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTH SEA; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

PHOCOENA PHOCOENA; PHOCOENIDAE;

EID: 34548549994     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2006.0588     Document Type: Article

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