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Seabirds as indicators of marine ecosystems

Year: 2007

Type: article

Abstract: A key requirement for implementing ecosystembased management is to obtain timely information on significant fluctuations in the ecosystem (Botsford et al. 1997).However, obtaining all necessary information about physical and biological changes at appropriate temporal and spatial scales is a daunting task.Intuitively, one might assume that physical data are more important for the interpretation of ecosystem changes than biological data, but analyses of time series data suggest otherwise: physical data are more erratic and

Source: Marine Ecology Progress Series

DOI: 10.3354/meps07070

Authors: IJF Piatt, WJ Sydeman

Institutions: United States Geological Survey, Farallon Institute

Language: English

Topic: Marine and fisheries research

Subfield: Aquatic Science

Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Domain: Life Sciences

SDGs: Life below water, Life on land

Open Access status: bronze

Funder: North Pacific Research Board