Demographic response of a population of white-chinned petrels Procellaria aequinoctialis to climate and longline fishery bycatch

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1460-1467

  Barbraud, Christophe ^a   Marteau, Cédric ^a   Ridoux, Vincent ^b   Delord, Karine ^a   Weimerskirch, Henri ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LA ROCHELLE   (France)

Author keywords

Demographic invariants; El Ni o; Longline fishing; Population model; Procellaria aequinoctialis; Recruitment; Survival

Indexed keywords

AGE CLASS; BYCATCH; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; DEMOGRAPHIC SURVEY; DEMOGRAPHIC TREND; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; LONGLINING; MORTALITY; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION ESTIMATION; POPULATION SIZE; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SEABIRD; SURVIVAL;

CROZET ISLANDS; FRENCH SOUTHERN TERRITORIES; INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN ISLANDS;

MERLUCCIUS; PROCELLARIA AEQUINOCTIALIS; PROCELLARIIDAE; REXEA SOLANDRI;

EID: 50649088563     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: 13652664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2008.01537.x     Document Type: Article

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