The effects of global climate variability in pup production of antarctic fur seals

Ecology

Volumn 86, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 2408-2417

  Forcada, Jaume ^a   Trathan, P N ^a   Reid, K ^a   Murphy, E J ^a  

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antarctic fur seals; Bird Island, South Georgia; Climate perturbations; Demography; El Ni o; Environmental autocorrelation; Fur seal pup production; Mixed effects models; Power spectrum; Sea surface temperature, SST; Southern Ocean; Variance components

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; PINNIPED;

ANTARCTICA; ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC; WORLD;

ARCTOCEPHALUS GAZELLA; AVES; EUPHAUSIACEA;

EID: 23944511607     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/04-1153     Document Type: Article

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