Hawaiian albatrosses track interannual variability of marine habitats in the North Pacific

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 86, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 246-260

  Kappes, Michelle A ^a   Shaffer, Scott A ^a   Tremblay, Yann ^a   Foley, David G ^b,c   Palacios, Daniel M ^b,c   Robinson, Patrick W ^a   Bograd, Steven J ^b   Costa, Daniel P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SOUTHWEST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLACK-FOOTED ALBATROSS; BODY MASS; BREEDING SEASON; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; CLIMATIC VARIABILITY; ENVIRONMENTAL CUES; ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABLES; FIRST PASSAGE TIME; FORAGING BEHAVIORS; HABITAT PREFERENCES; HABITAT VARIABLES; HAWAIIAN ISLANDS; INCUBATION PERIODS; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NORTH PACIFIC; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TRIP DISTANCES;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; OCEAN HABITATS;

ECOSYSTEMS;

ANNUAL VARIATION; BIOENERGETICS; BIOTELEMETRY; BODY MASS; BREEDING POPULATION; BREEDING SEASON; CLIMATE VARIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL CUE; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; INCUBATION; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; PELAGIC ECOSYSTEM; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEABIRD; TRACKING;

FRENCH FRIGATE SHOALS; HAWAIIAN ISLANDS; TERN ISLAND;

DIOMEDEA IMMUTABILIS; DIOMEDEIDAE; PHOEBASTRIA NIGRIPES;

EID: 77649172685     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2010.04.012     Document Type: Article

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