Seabird diet indicates changing Arctic marine communities in eastern Canada

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 454, Issue , 2012, Pages 171-182

  Provencher, J F ^a   Gaston, A J ^b   O'Hara, P D ^c   Gilchrist, H G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Arctic; Climate change; Diet shift; Fish community; Sea ice cover; Seabird; Thick billed murre; Uria lomvia; Zooplankton

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; DIETARY SHIFT; GADOID; ICE COVER; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; POLAR REGION; PREY AVAILABILITY; SEA ICE; SEABIRD; ZOOPLANKTON;

CANADA; CANADIAN ARCTIC;

AVES; BOREOGADUS; LARIDAE; MALLOTUS (FISH); URIA LOMVIA;

EID: 84861361707     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps09299     Document Type: Article

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