Predicting population consequences of ocean climate change for an ecosystem sentinel, the seabird Cassin's auklet

Global Change Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1923-1935

  Wolf, Shaye G ^a   Snyder, Mark A ^a   Sydeman, William J ^b   Doak, Daniel F ^c   Croll, Donald A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b FARALLON INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED ECOSYSTEM RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

California Current Ecosystem; Cassin's auklet; Climate change; Ocean; Population dynamics; Population model; Seabird; Stochastic

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; GREENHOUSE GAS; GROWTH RATE; GROWTH RESPONSE; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION MODELING; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEABIRD; STOCHASTICITY; UPWELLING;

CALIFORNIA; CALIFORNIA CURRENT; FARALLON ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; UNITED STATES;

PTYCHORAMPHUS ALEUTICUS;

EID: 77954165647     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2010.02194.x     Document Type: Article

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