Seabirds maintain offspring provisioning rate despite fluctuations in prey abundance: A multi-species functional response for guillemots in the North Sea

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1071-1079

  Smout, Sophie ^a   Rindorf, Anna ^b   Wanless, Sarah ^c   Daunt, Francis ^c   Harris, Michael P ^c   Matthiopoulos, Jason ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ammodytes marinus; Chick provisioning; Generalist; Good Environmental Status; Indicator species; MCMC; Predator prey interactions; Seabird diet; Sprattus sprattus; Uria aalge

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; COLONY STRUCTURE; DATA ACQUISITION; FOOD CONSUMPTION; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HABITAT MANAGEMENT; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MULTISPECTRAL IMAGE; PARAMETERIZATION; POPULATION MODELING; PREY AVAILABILITY; PREY SELECTION; SEABIRD; TROPHIC LEVEL;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH SEA;

ALCIDAE; AMMODYTES MARINUS; SPRATTUS SPRATTUS; URIA AALGE;

EID: 84880330532     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: 13652664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.12095     Document Type: Article

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