Sea to sky: Impacts of residual salmon-derived nutrients on estuarine breeding bird communities

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 278, Issue 1721, 2011, Pages 3081-3088

  Field, Rachel D ^a   Reynolds, John D ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Coastal watersheds; Ecosystem based management; Fisheries; Great bear rainforest; Wetlands

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; DIVERSITY INDEX; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; ESTUARINE ECOSYSTEM; HABITAT MANAGEMENT; POPULATION DENSITY; RAINFOREST; SALMONID;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; GREAT BEAR RAINFOREST; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC RIM;

ANIMALIA; AVES; ONCORHYNCHUS; ONCORHYNCHUS GORBUSCHA; ONCORHYNCHUS KETA; REGULUS SATRAPA; TROGLODYTINAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 80052760947     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.2731     Document Type: Article

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