Rockfish response to low-frequency ocean climate change as revealed by the diet of a marine bird over multiple time scales

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 281, Issue , 2004, Pages 207-216

  Miller, Aileen K ^a   Sydeman, William J ^a  

^a PRBO CONSERVATION SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Common murre; Intra annual variability; Juvenile rockfish; PDO; Regime shift; Sebastes spp.; Uria aalge

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DIET; FISH; SEABIRD; UPWELLING;

CALIFORNIA CURRENT; OCEANIC REGIONS; PACIFIC OCEAN; WORLD;

AVES; SEBASTES; URIA; URIA AALGE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 9644304485     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps281207     Document Type: Article

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