Responses of piscivorous seabirds at the Pribilof Islands to ocean climate

Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography

Volumn 55, Issue 16-17, 2008, Pages 1856-1867

  Byrd, G Vernon ^a   Sydeman, William J ^b   Renner, Heather M ^a   Minobe, Shoshiro ^c  

^a Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge   (United States)

^b PRBO CONSERVATION SCIENCE   (United States)

^c HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bering Sea; Breeding success; Climatic changes; Marine birds; Nesting phenology; Pribilof islands

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC ENGINEERING; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CANNING; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; FOOD PRESERVATION; FOOD PROCESSING; LANDFORMS; PRODUCTIVITY; SILICON CARBIDE; SPRINGS (COMPONENTS); SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; VLSI CIRCUITS; WAVE INTERFERENCE;

ARCTIC MARINE; BERING SEA; BREEDING SUCCESS; CLIMATE VARIABILITY AND CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIABLES; CLIMATIC CHANGES; FOOD WEBS; HIGH FREQUENCIES; INTER-ANNUAL VARIATIONS; INTER-DECADAL; INVERSE RELATIONSHIP; LOW FREQUENCIES; MARINE BIRDS; NESTING PHENOLOGY; NORTH PACIFIC; PRIBILOF ISLANDS; SEA-ICE CONCENTRATIONS; SEA-SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SEASONAL CYCLES; UPPER WATER COLUMN;

TIME MEASUREMENT;

BREEDING SITE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; FOOD WEB; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; PHENOLOGY; PISCIVORY; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEA ICE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEABIRD;

ALASKA; NORTH AMERICA; PRIBILOF ISLANDS; UNITED STATES;

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

EID: 52349122996     PISSN: 09670645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr2.2008.04.015     Document Type: Article

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