Seabirds as environmental indicators: The advantages of combining data sets

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 352, Issue , 2007, Pages 205-211

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

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b JOINT NATURE CONSERVATION COMMITTEE   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Ecological indicators; Food availability; Multivariate statistics; Principal component analysis; Seabirds

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATOR; FOOD AVAILABILITY; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SEABIRD;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH SEA;

EID: 37849052059     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps07071     Document Type: Article

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