Climate change, heightened hurricane activity, and extinction risk for an endangered tropical seabird, the black-capped petrel Pterodroma hasitata

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 454, Issue , 2012, Pages 251-261

  Hass, T ^a   Hyman, J ^b   Semmens, B X ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b WESTERN CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Gulf Stream; Hurricane; Mortality; North Atlantic; Petrel; Wreck

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; EXTINCTION RISK; HURRICANE; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MORTALITY; SEABIRD; WRECK;

ATLANTIC COAST [NORTH AMERICA]; ATLANTIC COAST [UNITED STATES]; ATLANTIC OCEAN; FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; GREAT LAKES [NORTH AMERICA]; GULF STREAM; NORTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES;

PROCELLARIIDAE; PTERODROMA HASITATA;

EID: 84861384202     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps09723     Document Type: Article

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