Regional and annual variation in black-legged kittiwake breeding productivity is related to sea surface temperature

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 350, Issue , 2007, Pages 137-143

  Frederiksen, Morten ^a,d   Edwards, Martin ^b   Mavor, Roderick A ^c   Wanless, Sarah ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b THE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^c JOINT NATURE CONSERVATION COMMITTEE   (United Kingdom)

^d NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Ammodytes marinus; Kittiwakes; Ocean climate; Rissa tridactyla; Sandeels; Seabirds; Spatial population dynamics

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ANNUAL VARIATION; BREEDING; CLIMATE CHANGE; CRUSTACEAN; DEMOGRAPHY; HETEROGENEITY; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEABIRD; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (WEST); EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTH SEA; ORKNEY; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

AMMODYTES MARINUS; CALANUS; COPEPODA; LARUS; RISSA TRIDACTYLA;

EID: 37849041551     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps07126     Document Type: Article

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