Resilience of the British and Irish seabird community in the twentieth century

Aquatic Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 187-199

  Grandgeorge, Marine ^a   Wanless, Sarah ^b   Dunn, Timothy E ^c   Maumy, Myriam ^d   Beaugrand, Grégory ^a   Grémillet, David ^a,e  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c JOINT NATURE CONSERVATION COMMITTEE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Bioenergetics; Bird phylogeny; Marine environment; Population census; Predation; Regime shift; Spatial analysis

Indexed keywords

AVES; LARIDAE;

EID: 70349775014     PISSN: 18647782     EISSN: 18647790     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/ab00095     Document Type: Article

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