Habitat associations of floating debris and marine birds in the North East Pacific Ocean at coarse and meso spatial scales

Marine Pollution Bulletin

Volumn 62, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2496-2506

  Titmus, Andrew J ^a   David Hyrenbach, K ^a  

^a HAWAII PACIFIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Marine debris; Pacific Ocean; Seabirds; Spatial distribution; Subtropical gyre; Visual surveys

Indexed keywords

BIRD DISTRIBUTION; BLACK-FOOTED ALBATROSS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURES; CRUISE TRACK; EAST PACIFIC; ENVIRONMENTAL PROCESS; MARINE BIRDS; MARINE DEBRIS; PACIFIC OCEAN; SEABIRDS; SHALLOWER WATER; SPATIAL OVERLAP; SPATIAL SCALE; SUBTROPICAL GYRE;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; OCEANOGRAPHY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SURVEYS;

DEBRIS;

CHLOROPHYLL A; PLASTIC;

ABUNDANCE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DEBRIS FLOW; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; GYRE; HABITAT USE; MARINE POLLUTION; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEABIRD; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; VISUALIZATION;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MARINE DEBRIS; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; OCEANOGRAPHY; PACIFIC OCEAN; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; SEA LEVEL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEABIRD; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES HABITAT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; WASTE; WIND;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIRDS; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; LINEAR MODELS; PACIFIC OCEAN; POPULATION DENSITY; WASTE PRODUCTS;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTHEAST);

AVES; PHAETHON RUBRICAUDA;

EID: 82455210782     PISSN: 0025326X     EISSN: 18793363     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2011.08.007     Document Type: Article

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