Seabird-trawling interactions: Factors affecting species-specific to regional community utilisation of fisheries waste

Fisheries Oceanography

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 263-277

  Louzao, M ^a,b   Arcos, J M ^c,d   Guijarro, B ^e   Valls, M ^e   Oro, D ^a  

^a INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

^b HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^d SEO/BirdLife   (Spain)

^e Centro Oceanográfico de Baleares   (Spain)

Author keywords

Balearic shearwater; Discards; Ecosystem based management; Generalized linear models; Kernel analysis; Puffinus mauretanicus; Seabird fishery interactions

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL CYCLE; AQUACULTURE EFFLUENT; BOTTOM TRAWLING; BREEDING POPULATION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CRUSTACEAN; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FISH; FISHERY DISCARD; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MOLLUSC; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHENOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREY AVAILABILITY; SEABIRD; TRAWLING; VESSEL;

BALEARIC ISLANDS; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; SPAIN;

CALONECTRIS DIOMEDEA; CRUSTACEA; LARUS MICHAHELLIS; MOLLUSCA; PUFFINUS MAURETANICUS;

EID: 79958111964     PISSN: 10546006     EISSN: 13652419     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2419.2011.00579.x     Document Type: Article

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