Cold Case: The Death of Common Guillemots in the Barents Sea

• Published in: Significance
• Main Authors: Mesquita, Michel d. S., Erikstad, Kjell Einar
• Other Authors: Fram Centre, NINA, Centre for Biodiversity Conservation Dynamics, National Seabird Monitoring Programme
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press (OUP) 2016
• Subjects: Statistics and Probability; Barents Sea; Erikstad
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1740-9713.2016.00938.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1740-9713.2016.00938.x; https://academic.oup.com/jrssig/article-pdf/13/4/28/49194221/sign_13_4_28.pdf

Abstract When guillemot populations collapsed in the Barents Sea in the winter of 1986–7, a lack of food was blamed. But did climate play a role in this collapse? Michel d. S. Mesquita and Kjell Einar Erikstad went looking for an answer