Environmental control of the breeding success of rhinoceros auklets at Triangle Island, British Columbia

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 424, Issue , 2011, Pages 285-302

  Borstad, Gary ^a   Crawford, William ^b   Hipfner, J Mark ^c   Thomson, Richard ^b   Hyatt, Kim ^d  

^a ASL ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES INC   (Canada)

^b FISHERIES AND OCEANS CANADA   (Canada)

^c ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^d PACIFIC BIOLOGICAL STATION   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ocean chlorophyll; Ocean temperature; Rhinoceros auklet; Salinity; Sandlance; Satellite imagery; Sockeye salmon; Triangle Island; Wind

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SALMONID; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEA SURFACE SALINITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEABIRD; SURVIVAL;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; PACIFIC COAST [CANADA]; PACIFIC COAST [NORTH AMERICA]; TRIANGLE ISLAND;

ALGAE; AMMODYTES HEXAPTERUS; CERORHINCA; CERORHINCA MONOCERATA; ONCORHYNCHUS; ONCORHYNCHUS NERKA;

EID: 79952153674     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps08950     Document Type: Article

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