Later breeding in northern gannets in the eastern Atlantic

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 370, Issue , 2008, Pages 263-269

  Wanless, Sarah ^a   Harris, Michael P ^a   Lewis, Sue ^b   Frederiksen, Morten ^c   Murray, Stuart ^d  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

^d Murray Consultancy   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate change; Hydrobiological conditions; Latitude; Monitoring; Morus bassanus; Phenology; Seabirds

Indexed keywords

BREEDING POPULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; PHENOLOGY; SEABIRD; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; WARMING;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; FAROE ISLANDS;

AVES; MORUS (PLANT); MORUS BASSANUS;

EID: 56749160640     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps07712     Document Type: Article

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