Linking predator diet and prey availability: Common murres and capelin in the Northwest Atlantic

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 445, Issue , 2012, Pages 25-35

  Buren, Alejandro D ^a   Koen Alonso, Mariano ^a,b   Montevecchi, William A ^a  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^b NORTHWEST ATLANTIC FISHERIES CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Capelin; Common murre; Ecosystem indicator; Functional response; Mallotus villosus; Northwest Atlantic; Predator prey; Seabirds; Uria aalge

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BREEDING SEASON; DIVING; FISH; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; FUNCTIONAL RESPONSE; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; PREY AVAILABILITY; SAMPLING; SEABIRD;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTHWEST); CANADA; FUNK ISLAND; NEWFOUNDLAND; NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR;

LARIDAE; MALLOTUS (FISH); MALLOTUS VILLOSUS; URIA AALGE;

EID: 84856170977     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps09465     Document Type: Article

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