Hot oceanography: Planktivorous seabirds reveal ecosystem responses to warming of the Bering Sea

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 352, Issue , 2007, Pages 289-297

  Springer, Alan M ^a   Byrd, G Vernon ^b   Iverson, Sara J ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge   (United States)

^c DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Auklet; Bering sea; Climate change; Copepod; Diet; Oceanography; Seabird

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONTINENTAL SHELF; DIET; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; OCEANOGRAPHY; PLANKTIVORE; SEABIRD; WARMING;

ALASKA; BERING SEA; NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PRIBILOF ISLANDS; UNITED STATES;

AETHIA; AETHIA PUSILLA; AVES; CALANOIDA; CALANUS MARSHALLAE; COPEPODA; NEOCALANUS;

EID: 38949093803     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps07080     Document Type: Article

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