Forage fish abundance is a predictor of timing of breeding and hatching brood size in a coastal seabird

• Published in: Marine Ecology Progress Series
• Main Authors: Lorentsen, Svein-Håkon, Anker-Nilssen, Tycho, Erikstad, Kjell E, Røv, Nils
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Phalacrocorax aristotelis; Norwegian Sea; Timing of breeding; Brood size; Pollachius virens; NAO; Norway; Røst; Sklinna; North Atlantic; North Atlantic oscillation
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11250/2396526; https://doi.org/10.3354/meps11100

Current and future climate alterations might impact ecological processes like timing of breeding. We used multivariate linear models to assess the importance of food availability and climate on timing of breeding and hatching brood size of European shags Phalacrocorax aristotelis in 2 colonies, Skli...