Sea birds as proxies of marine habitats and food webs in the western Aleutian Arc

• Published in: Fisheries Oceanography
• Main Authors: SPRINGER, ALAN M., PIATT, JOHN F., VLIET, GUS VAN
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 1996
• Subjects: Bering Sea; Buldir Island; Near Islands; rissa tridactyla; Aleutian Islands
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2419.1996.tb00016.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1365-2419.1996.tb00016.x; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1365-2419.1996.tb00016.x

ABSTRACT We propose that ocean conditions of the Near Islands in the western Aleutian Arc mimic those of the shallow continental shelf of the eastern Bering Sea to the extent that the marine community, including assemblages of forage fishes and their avian predators, has distinctly coastal character...