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Creator:: Paredes, Rosana, Harding, Ann M. A., Irons, David B., Roby, Daniel D., Suryan, Robert M., Orben, Rachael A., Renner, Heather, Young, Rebecca, and Kitaysky, Alexander
Abstract:: As central-place foragers, seabirds from colonies located close to multiple and/or productive marine habitats might experience increased foraging opportunities and enhanced resilience to food shortages. We tested whether this hypothesis might explain divergent trends in 3 populations of black-legged kittiwakes Rissa tridactyla, a surface-feeding piscivore, in the eastern Bering Sea....
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Full Text:: kittiwakes from 2 continental shelf colonies (St. Paul and St. George) and an oceanic colony (Bogoslof

Creator:: Jacobson, Kym C., Baldwin, Rebecca E. B., and Reese, Douglas C.
Abstract:: Mesoscale physical oceanographic features, such as jets and eddies, can influence the structure of marine ecosystems. We used trophically transmitted parasite communities of pelagic fishes in the northern California Current to examine effects of physical oceanographic features on pelagic ecosystem structure. We tested the hypotheses that (1) oceanographic features associated...
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Full Text:: (R. Olson pers. data) and to type specimens from the US National Parasite Collection, Beltsville

Creator:: Benoit-Bird, Kelly J., McIntosh, Neal E., and Heppell, Scott A.
Abstract:: We sought to characterize the distribution of juvenile walleye pollock Theragra chalcogramma in an area of intense predator-prey interactions and to describe habitat features that lead to their observed distributions. The distribution of juvenile walleye pollock around the Pribilof Islands in the southeastern Bering Sea in 2008 and 2009 was...
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Full Text:: Alaska and north of the Aleutian Island chain. The 2 largest islands, St. Paul and St. George, are

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