Short Note: Paradigms need hypothesis testing: No evidence for top-down forcing on Adélie and emperor penguin populations

Antarctic Science

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 391-392

  Barbraud, Christophe ^a   Cotte, Cedric ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; FOOD WEB; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; SEABIRD;

ADELIE COAST; ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

APTENODYTES FORSTERI; SPHENISCIDAE;

EID: 46049098371     PISSN: 09541020     EISSN: 13652079     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0954102008001260     Document Type: Article

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