Reproductive ecology of Brown Boobies (Sula leucogaster) at Morros El Potosí, Guerrero, Mexico;Ecología reproductiva del Bobo Café (Sula leucogaster) en Morros el Potosí, Guerrero, México

Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 793-800

  Ceyca, Juan Pablo ^a,b   Mellink, Eric ^a  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA Y DE EDUCACIÓN SUPERIOR DE ENSENADA   (Mexico)

^b Cuerpos de Conservación Guanajuato ^*  (Mexico)

Author keywords

Diving; Foraging; Parental care; Reproductive success

Indexed keywords

SULA LEUCOGASTER;

EID: 73949150825     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (46)

1. Anderson, D. 1983. The seabirds. In Island biogeography in the Sea of Cortez, T. J. Case y M. L. Cody (eds.) - University of California, Berkeley. p. 246-264.
2. Anderson, D. J. 1989. Differential responses of boobies and other seabirds in the Galápagos to the 1986-87 El Niño-southern oscillation event. Marine Ecology Progress Series 52:209-216.
3. Bost, C. A. y L. Maho. 1993. Seabirds as bio-indicators of changing marine ecosystems: new perspectives. Acta Oecologica 14:463-470.
4. Branco, J. 0.2004. Aves marinhas das Ilhas de Santa Catarina. In Aves marinhas insulares brasileiras: biología e conservacao, J. O. Branco (ed.). Editora da Univali, Itajaí. p. 15-36.
5. Burguer, A. E. y R. P. Wilson. 1988. Capillary-tube depth gauges for diving animais: an assessment of their accurancy and applicability. Journal of Field Ornithology 59:345-354.
6. Cairns, D. K. 1987. Seabirds as indicators of marine food supplies. Biological Oceanography 5:261-271.
7. Cairns, D. K. 1992. Bridging the gap between ornithology and fisheries science: use of seabirds data in stock assessment models. Condor 94:811-824.
8. Castillo-Guerrero, J. A. 2003. Respuestas del bobo de patas azules (Sula nebouxii) a las características del hábitat, con énfasis en las relaciones interespecíficas, en isla El Rancho, Sinaloa, durante la temporada reproductiva 2003. Tesis maestría, Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada, Ensenada, Baja California. 98 p.
9. Castillo-Guerrero, J. A., J. P. Ceyca y E. Mellink. 2007. A nesting record of the Masked Booby from Guerrero, Southern Mexico. Western Birds 38:229-231.
10. Charrassin, J. B. y C. A. Bost. 2001. Utilization of the oceanic habitat by king penguins over the annual cycle. Marine Ecology Progress Series 2001:285-297.
11. Charrassin, J. B., C. A. Bost, K. Putz, J. Lage, T. Dahier, T. Zorn e Y. LeMaho. 1998. Foraging strategies of incubating and brooding king penguins Aptenodytes patagonicus. Oecologia 114:194-201.
12. Clifford, L. D. y D. J. Anderson. 2001. Experimental demonstration of the insurance value of extra eggs in an obligately siblicidal seabird. Behavioral Ecology 12:340-347.
13. Clifford, L. D. y D. J. Anderson. 2002. Clutch size variation in the Nazca Booby: a test of the egg quality hypothesis. Behavioral Ecology 13:274-279.
14. Comisión Nacional del Agua. Servicio Meteorológico Nacional. http://smn. cna.gob.mx/; fecha de consulta: 15 junio, 2006.
15. Drummond, H., C. Rodríguez y H. Schwabl. 2008. Do mothers regulate facultative and obligate siblicide by differentially provisioning eggs with hormones? Journal of Avian Biology 39:139-143.
16. Furness, R. W. 2003. Impacts of fisheries on seabird communities. Scientia Marina 67:33-45.
17. Gaviño de la Torre, G. 1988. Aves de la isla Isabel, Nayarit, México. Anales del Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, seie Zoologia 58:751-812.
18. Gaviño de la Torre, G. 1993. Reproducción de la sula cuellioscuro Sula leucogaster en la isla Pajarera, Bahía de Chamela, Jalisco, Mexico. Universidad, Ciencia y Tecnología 3:1-19.
19. Goldman, E. A. 1951. Biological investigations in Mexico. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 115:1-476.
20. Guerra, M. y H. Drummond. 1995. Reversed sexual size dimorphism and parental care: minimal division of labour in the Blue-footed Booby. Behaviour 132:479-496.
21. Hazevoet, C. J. 1995. The birds of the Cape Verde Islands: an annotated checklist. BOU Checklist 13. British Museum of Natural History. Tring, Hertfordshire. 192 p.
22. Heatwole, H., P. Abbott y M. Jones. 1990. Egg-size and clutchsize of the Brown Booby, Sula leucogaster, at Swain Reefs, Great Barrier Reef. Corella 14:51-52.
23. Howell, S. N. G. y S. Engel. 1993. Seabirds observations off Western Mexico. Western Birds 24:167-181.
24. Howell, S. N. G. y S. Webb. 1995. A guide to the birds of Mexico and northern Central America. Oxford University Press, Oxford. 851 p.
25. Korpimäki, E. 1986. Reversed size dimorphism in birds of prey, especially in Tengmalm Owl Aegolius funereus: a test of the starvation hypothesis. Ornis Scandinavica 17:326-332.
26. Lewis, S., E. A. Schreiber, F. Daunt, G. A. Schenk, K. Orr, A. Adams, S. Wanless y K. C. Hamer. 2005. Sex-specific foraging behavior in tropical boobies: does size matters? Ibis 147:408-414.
27. Martins, F. C. y M. M. Dias. 2003. Cuidado parental de Sula leucogaster (Boddaert) (Aves, Pelecaniformes, Sulidae) nas Ilhas dos Currais, Paraná, Brasil. Revista Brasileira de Zoologia 20:583-589.
28. Martin, P. y P. Bateson. 1986. Measuring Behaviour: An introductory guide. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 200 p.
29. Massaro, M., J. W. Chardine, I. L. Jones y G. J. Robertson. 2000. Delayed capelin (Mallotus villosus) availability infiuences predatory behaviourof large gulls on Black-legged Kittiwakes (Rissa tridactila), causing a reduction in kittiwake breeding success. Canadian Journal of Zoology 78:1588-1596.
30. Mellink, E. 2000. Breeding of Brown Boobies in the Gulf of California: Seasonality and apparent effects of El Niño. Waterbirds 23:89-99.
31. Mellink, E. y M. E. Riojas-López. 2005. Breeding seabirds of Morros El Potosí, Guerrero, México. Western Birds 36:59-63.
32. Mellink, E., J. Domínguez y J. Luévano. 2001. Diet of eastern Pacific Brown Boobies Sula leucogaster brewsteri on Isla San Jorge, north-eastern Gulf of California, and an April comparison with diets in the Middle Gulf of California. Marine Ornithology 29:39-44.
33. Montevecchi, W. A. 1993. Birds as indicators of change in marine prey stocks. In Birds as monitors of environmental change, R. W. Furness y J. J. D. Greenwood (eds.). Chapman and Hall, London. p. 217-266.
34. Montevecchi, W. A. y R. A. Myers. 1995. Prey harvest of seabirds reflects pelagic fish and squid abundance on multiple spatial and temporal scales. Marine Ecology Progress Series 117:1-9.
35. Montevecchi, W. A. y R. A. Myers. 1996. Dietary changes of seabirds indicate shifts in pelagic food webs. Sarsia 80:313-322.
36. Nelson, J. B. 1978. The Sulidae. Gannets and boobies. Oxford University Press. Oxford. 1012 p.
37. Peñaloza-Padilla, E. A. 2006. Cuidado parental y ecología de forrajeo del bobo café (Sula leucogaster brewesteri) en el farallón de San Ignacio, Sinaloa, México, en la temporada reproductiva 2004. Tesis, Centro Universitario de Ciencias Biológicas y Agropecuarias, Universidad de Guadalajara. Zapopan, Jalisco, México. 39 p.
38. Regehr, H. M. y W. A. Montevecchi. 1997. Interactive effects of foodshortage and predation on breeding failure of Blacklegged Kittiwakes: indirect effects of fisheries activities and implications for indicator species. Marine Ecology Progress Series 155:249-260.
39. Rotenberry, J. T. y J. A. Wiens. 1991. Weather and reproductive variation in shrubsteppe sparrows: a hierarchical analysis. Ecology 72:1325-1335.
40. Schreiber, E. A. y R. L. Norton. 2002. Brown Booby (Sula leucogaster). In The Birds of North America, F. B. Gilí y A. Poole (eds.). The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. p. 649.
41. Simmons, R. E. 1997. Why don't all siblicidal eagles lay insurance eggs? The egg quality hipótesis. Behavioral Ecology 8:544-550.
42. Snyder, N. F. R. y J. W. Wiley. 1976. Sexual dimorphism in hawks and owls of North America. Ornithological Monographs 20:1-96.
43. Suazo-Guillén, E. 2004. Biología reproductiva y hábitos de forrajeo del bobo café, Sula leucogaster, en dos islas del Golfo de California, 2003-2004. Tesis Maestría, Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada. Ensenada, B. C., México. 74 p.
44. Tershy, B. R., Breese, D. y D. A. Croll. 2000. Insurance eggs versus additional eggs: Do Brown Boobies practice oblígate siblicide? Auk 117:817-820.
45. Westerkov, K. 1950. Methods for determinig the age of game bird eggs. Journal of Wildlife Management 14:56-67.
46. Woodward, W. 1972. The natural history of Kure Atoll, northwestern Hawaiian Islands. Atoll Research Bulletin 164:1-318.