Arctic warming: Nonlinear impacts of sea-ice and glacier melt on seabird foraging

Global Change Biology

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 1116-1123

  Grémillet, David ^a,b   Fort, Jérôme ^c   Amélineau, Françoise ^a   Zakharova, Elena ^d,e   Le Bot, Tangi ^a   Sala, Enric ^f,g   Gavrilo, Maria ^h  

^a UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE LA ROCHELLE   (France)

^d CNRS   (France)

^e St Petersburg Branch   (Russian Federation)

^f NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY   (United States)

^g CENTRE D ESTUDIS AVANÇATS DE BLANES CEAB CSIC   (Spain)

^h National Park Russian Arctic   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Arctic climate change; Arctic marine fauna; Behavioural plasticity; Cryosphere; Historical data; Little auk

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; CLIMATE EFFECT; CRYOSPHERE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GLACIER DYNAMICS; SEA ICE; SEABIRD; WARMING;

ARKHANGELSK [RUSSIAN FEDERATION]; FRANZ JOSEF LAND; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

ALLE ALLE; AVES; PINGUINUS;

ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; ARCTIC; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHARADRIIFORMES; CLIMATE CHANGE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ICE COVER; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; REMOTE SENSING; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

ANIMALS; ARCTIC REGIONS; CHARADRIIFORMES; CLIMATE CHANGE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; ICE COVER; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY; RUSSIA;

EID: 84923106694     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12811     Document Type: Article

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