Linking climate variability, productivity and stress to demography in a long-lived seabird

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 454, Issue , 2012, Pages 221-235

  Satterthwaite, William H ^a,b   Kitaysky, Alexander S ^c   Mangel, Marc ^b,d  

^a Marine Resources Assessment Group (MRAG) Americas   (United States)

^b University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Colony; Corticosterone; Demographic consequence; Food availability; Kittiwake; Survival

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; BREEDING POPULATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; COLONY; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FOOD AVAILABILITY; ICE COVER; LONGEVITY; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY; REPRODUCTIVE PRODUCTIVITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEABIRD; STEROID;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

AVES; LARUS; RISSA TRIDACTYLA;

EID: 84861416586     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps09539     Document Type: Article

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