Oceanographic gradients and seabird prey community dynamics in glacial fjords

Fisheries Oceanography

Volumn 21, Issue 2-3, 2012, Pages 148-169

  Arimitsu, Mayumi L ^a   Piatt, John F ^a   Madison, Erica N ^a   Conaway, Jeffrey S ^a   Hillgruber, Nicola ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

Author keywords

Alaska; Brachyramphus brevirostris; Capelin; Chlorophyll; Ecosystem; Euphausiid; Kenai Fjords; Kittlitz's Murrelet; Marine food web; Marine sill; Nutrients; Tidal currents; Tidewater glacier; Turbidity

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ORGANISM; CHLOROPHYLL; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; FOOD WEB; GLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; GLOBAL WARMING; HABITAT TYPE; HYDROGRAPHY; LIGHT EFFECT; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; OCEANOGRAPHY; PLANKTON; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; RUNOFF; SEABIRD; SURFACE WATER; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; TIDAL CURRENT;

ALASKA; UNITED STATES;

BRACHYRAMPHUS BREVIROSTRIS; EUPHAUSIACEA; EUPHAUSIIDAE; MALLOTUS (FISH);

EID: 84859571911     PISSN: 10546006     EISSN: 13652419     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2419.2012.00616.x     Document Type: Article

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