Impact of small-scale environmental perturbations on local marine food resources: A case study of a predator, the little penguin

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1676, 2009, Pages 4105-4109

  Ropert Coudert, Yan ^a,b   Kato, Akiko ^a,b   Chiaradia, André ^c  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHES SUBATOMIQUES   (France)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF POLAR RESEARCH   (Japan)

^c Phillip Island Nature Park   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bio indicator; Climate change; Food webs; Thermocline; Top predator

Indexed keywords

STORM WATER;

BIOINDICATOR; CLIMATE CHANGE; DISTURBANCE; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FOOD WEB; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; PERTURBATION; PREDATOR; PREY AVAILABILITY; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEABIRD; STRATIFICATION; THERMOCLINE;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BREEDING; CLIMATE CHANGE; COASTAL WATERS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOOD WEB; FORAGING; INDICATOR ORGANISM; MALE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; PENGUIN; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AUSTRALIA; BASS STRAIT;

AVES; EUDYPTULA MINOR; SPHENISCIDAE;

EID: 72849143879     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.1399     Document Type: Article

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