Behavioural inertia places a top marine predator at risk from environmental change in the Benguela upwelling system

Marine Biology

Volumn 157, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 537-544

  Pichegru, Lorien ^a,b   Ryan, Peter G ^b   Crawford, Robert J M ^b,c   van der Lingen, Carl D ^b   Grémillet, David ^a,b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^c Marine and Coastal Management ^*  (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; BREEDING SEASON; DEMERSAL FISHERY; ENDEMIC SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EXTINCTION; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; KEYSTONE SPECIES; MARINE MAMMAL; PELAGIC FISH; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SCAVENGING (FEEDING); SEABIRD; SPECIES CONSERVATION; UPWELLING; VULNERABILITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BENGUELA CURRENT; MALGAS ISLAND; SOUTH AFRICA; WESTERN CAPE;

ANIMALIA; AVES; MAMMALIA; MORUS (PLANT); MORUS CAPENSIS; SULIDAE;

EID: 77649338855     PISSN: 00253162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00227-009-1339-2     Document Type: Article

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