Changes in sooty shearwater Puffinus griseus chick production and harvest precede ENSO events

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 188, Issue , 1999, Pages 237-248

  Lyver, P O'B ^a,b   Moller, H ^a   Thompson, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Climatic perturbations; Harvest rate decline; Sooty shearwater; Southern Oscillation

Indexed keywords

EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; FOOD AVAILABILITY; HARVESTING; POPULATION DECLINE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEABIRD; WIND;

NEW ZEALAND;

CICONIIFORMES; GALLUS GALLUS; PROCELLARIIFORMES; PUFFINUS GRISEUS;

EID: 0033520743     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps188237     Document Type: Article

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