Seabird attendance at shrimp trawlers in nearshore waters of South Carolina

Marine Ornithology

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 31-39

  Wickliffe, Lisa C ^a,b   Jodice, Patrick G R ^a  

^a CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Brown pelican; Laughing gull; Royal tern; Sandwich tern; Seabird fisheries interactions; Shrimp fishery; South carolina usa; Trawlers

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; NEARSHORE ENVIRONMENT; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SEABIRD; SHRIMP FISHERY; TRAWLING;

SOUTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES;

AVES; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); LARIDAE; LARUS ATRICILLA; LEUCOPHAEUS; PELECANUS OCCIDENTALIS; STERNA MAXIMA; STERNA SANDVICENSIS;

EID: 79551559889     PISSN: 10183337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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