Contrasting population trends of piscivorous seabirds in the Pribilof Islands: A 30-year perspective

Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography

Volumn 55, Issue 16-17, 2008, Pages 1846-1855

  Byrd, G Vernon ^a   Schmutz, Joel A ^b   Renner, Heather M ^a  

^a Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bering Sea; Marine birds; Population characteristics; Pribilof Islands; Sea ice; Shelf edge

Indexed keywords

CANNING; FOOD PRESERVATION; ICE; LANDFORMS; OCEAN HABITATS; OCEANOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; PRODUCTIVITY; SEA ICE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

BERING SEA; BREEDING POPULATIONS; LOCAL CONTRIBUTION; MARINE BIRDS; MARINE FOOD WEB; MONITORING PROGRAMS; NORTH PACIFIC; POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS; POPULATION NUMBERS; PRIBILOF ISLANDS; SHELF BREAK; SHELF EDGE; SPATIAL DIFFERENCING; TIME-SERIES; WILDLIFE REFUGES; WINTER SEA ICE;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

BREEDING POPULATION; CONCEALMENT BEHAVIOR; FOOD WEB; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; ISLAND; MONITORING; MORTALITY; NEST SITE; PISCIVORE; REPRODUCTIVE PRODUCTIVITY; SEA ICE; SEABIRD; SHELF BREAK; SURVIVAL;

ALASKA; BERING SEA; NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PRIBILOF ISLANDS; SAINT GEORGE ISLAND; SAINT PAUL ISLAND [PRIBILOF ISLANDS]; UNITED STATES;

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

EID: 52049100806     PISSN: 09670645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr2.2008.04.004     Document Type: Article

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