Biologging, remotely-sensed oceanography and the continuous plankton recorder reveal the environmental determinants of a seabird wintering hotspot

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Fort, Jérôme ^a   Beaugrand, Grégory ^b,c   Grémillet, David ^d,e   Phillips, Richard A ^f  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b Laboratoire d Océanologie et de Géosciences   (France)

^c THE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^d CNRS   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^f BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ARCTIC; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BIOLOGGING; BREEDING; CANADA; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTINUOUS PLANKTON RECORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPEPOD; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FOOD WEB; GREENLAND; HABITAT PATCHINESS; MARINE SPECIES; MIGRATORY SPECIES; NONHUMAN; OCEANOGRAPHY; OVERWINTERING; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POPULATION DENSITY; SEABIRD; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BIRDS; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; COPEPODA; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOOD CHAIN; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GREENLAND; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR; OCEANOGRAPHY; OCEANS AND SEAS; PLANKTON; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASONS; TEMPERATURE;

ALLE ALLE; ANIMALIA; AVES; CALANUS FINMARCHICUS; COPEPODA; PINGUINUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84864008971     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0041194     Document Type: Article

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