Top-down and bottom-up factors affecting seabird population trends in the California current system (1985-2006)

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 84, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 242-254

  Ainley, David G ^a   David Hyrenbach, K ^b,c  

^a H T HARVEY AND ASSOCIATES   (United States)

^b HAWAII PACIFIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Oikonos   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BALEEN WHALES; BLACK-FOOTED ALBATROSS; CALIFORNIA CURRENT SYSTEMS; CARRYING CAPACITY; COASTAL UPWELLING INDICES; COLUMBUS; DECADAL PERIODS; ECOLOGICAL FACTORS; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS; ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABLES; GLOBAL POPULATION; HUMPBACK WHALES; INTERFERENCE COMPETITION; LONG-TERM TREND; OVEREXPLOITATION; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; POPULATION SIZES; PROXY VARIABLES; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; SPECIES ABUNDANCE; STUDY AREAS; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TOPDOWN;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; COMPETITION; ECOSYSTEMS; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; OCEAN HABITATS; POPULATION STATISTICS;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

ABUNDANCE; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; LONG-TERM CHANGE; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; PATROL BOAT; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEABIRD; SEASONALITY; TEMPORAL VARIATION; UPWELLING; WHALE;

CALIFORNIA CURRENT; PACIFIC OCEAN;

BALAENOPTERA; BALAENOPTERA MUSCULUS; CEPPHUS; CEPPHUS COLUMBA; CERORHINCA; CERORHINCA MONOCERATA; CETACEA; COLUMBA; LARUS OCCIDENTALIS; MEGAPTERA; MEGAPTERA NOVAEANGLIAE; MYSTICETI; OCEANODROMA HOMOCHROA; PHOEBASTRIA NIGRIPES; PTYCHORAMPHUS ALEUTICUS; PUFFINUS GRISEUS;

EID: 77949277853     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2009.10.001     Document Type: Article

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