Contrasting effects of food quality and quantity on a marine top predator

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 444, Issue , 2012, Pages 239-249

  Kadin, M ^a   Osterblom H ^a   Hentati Sundberg, J ^a   Olsson, O ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Alcidae; Climate change; Common guillemot; Ecosystem approach; Environmental change; Junk food; Trophic cascades

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; BROOD REARING; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLUPEOID; DATA INTERPRETATION; ECOSYSTEM APPROACH; FLEDGING; FOOD QUALITY; HATCHING; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; OVERFISHING; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATION; SEABIRD; SURVIVAL; TROPHIC CASCADE; WATERFOWL;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA;

ALCIDAE; AVES; SPRATTUS SPRATTUS; URIA AALGE;

EID: 84855710931     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps09417     Document Type: Article

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