Post-breeding season distribution of black-footed and Laysan albatrosses satellite-tagged in Alaska: Inter-specific differences in spatial overlap with North Pacific fisheries

Biological Conservation

Volumn 142, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 751-760

  Fischer, Karen N ^a   Suryan, Robert M ^b   Roby, Daniel D ^a   Balogh, Gregory R ^c  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c U S FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Longlining; Phoebastria; Satellite telemetry; Trawling

Indexed keywords

BREEDING SEASON; FISHERY; HABITAT USE; INTERSPECIFIC VARIATION; LONGLINING; MARICULTURE; NICHE OVERLAP; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEABIRD; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

ALASKA; ALEUTIAN ISLANDS; NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH); UNITED STATES;

ANOPLOPOMA FIMBRIA; ANOPLOPOMATIDAE; DIOMEDEA; DIOMEDEA IMMUTABILIS; DIOMEDEIDAE; HIPPOGLOSSUS STENOLEPIS; PHOEBASTRIA NIGRIPES; PLEUROGRAMMUS; PLEUROGRAMMUS MONOPTERYGIUS;

EID: 59649091934     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2008.12.007     Document Type: Article

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