Environmental extremes versus ecological extremes: Impact of a massive iceberg on the population dynamics of a high-level Antarctic marine predator

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 279, Issue 1747, 2012, Pages 4532-4541

  Chambert, Thierry ^a   Rotella, Jay J ^a   Garrott, Robert A ^a  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Catastrophic event; Demography; Iceberg B 15; Leptonychotes weddellii; Vital rates

Indexed keywords

CATASTROPHIC EVENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; COLONY STRUCTURE; DEMOGRAPHY; EXTREME EVENT; ICEBERG; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATOR; REPRODUCTION;

ANTARCTICA;

EID: 84867562619     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2012.1733     Document Type: Article

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