Untangling the relationships among climate prey and top predators in an ocean ecosystem

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 364, Issue , 2008, Pages 15-29

  Wells, B K ^a,b   Field, J C ^a   Thayer, J A ^c   Grimes, C B ^a   Bograd, S J ^d   Sydeman, W J ^e   Schwing, F B ^d   Hewitt, R ^d  

^a SOUTHWEST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c PRBO CONSERVATION SCIENCE   (United States)

^d SOUTHWEST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^e FARALLON INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED ECOSYSTEM RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Auklet; California current; Climate; Common murre; Krill; Rockfish

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; CRUSTACEAN; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEABIRD; TELEOST; TROPHIC LEVEL; ZOOPLANKTON;

CALIFORNIA CURRENT; PACIFIC OCEAN;

DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); EUPHAUSIACEA; URIA AALGE;

EID: 50149117389     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps07486     Document Type: Article

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