Seabirds as indicators of marine food supplies: Cairns revisited

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 352, Issue , 2007, Pages 221-234

  Piatt, John F ^a   Harding, Ann M A ^a,b   Shultz, Michael ^a   Speckman, Suzann G ^c   Van Pelt, Thomas I ^a   Drew, Gary S ^a   Kettle, Arthur B ^d  

^a Alaska Biological Science Center   (United States)

^b ALASKA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecological indicators; Food availability; Functional response; Predator prey dynamics; Seabirds; Threshold

Indexed keywords

AKAIKE INFORMATION CRITERION; BEHAVIOR; BIOINDICATOR; BIOLOGY; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FOOD SUPPLY; FUNCTIONAL RESPONSE; GROWTH; PREY AVAILABILITY; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEABIRD;

ALASKA; COOK INLET; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

AVES; LARIDAE; LARUS; RISSA TRIDACTYLA; URIA AALGE;

EID: 38949119715     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps07078     Document Type: Article

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