Large-scale impacts of the deepwater horizon oil spill: Can local disturbance affect distant ecosystems through migratory shorebirds?

BioScience

Volumn 62, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 676-685

  Henkel, Jessica R ^a   Sigel, Bryan J ^a   Taylor, Caz M ^a  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

carryover effects; deepwater oil well blowout; migration; shorebirds

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864069427     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/bio.2012.62.7.10     Document Type: Article

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