Using Seabird Habitat Modeling to Inform Marine Spatial Planning in Central California's National Marine Sanctuaries

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  McGowan, Jennifer ^a,b   Hines, Ellen ^a   Elliott, Meredith ^b   Howar, Julie ^b   Dransfield, Andrea ^a,b   Nur, Nadav ^b   Jahncke, Jaime ^b  

^a SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PRBO CONSERVATION SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRD; BRANDT CORMORANT; CASSIN AUKLET; COMMON MURRE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HABITAT SELECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NESTING; NONHUMAN; OCEAN ENVIRONMENT; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; RHINOCEROS AUKLET; SEA SURFACE WATERS; SEABIRD; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES HABITAT; UNITED STATES; WESTERN GULL;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIRDS; CALIFORNIA; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASONS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84881490834     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0071406     Document Type: Article

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