El Niño in the Warm Tropics: Local sea temperature predicts breeding parameters and growth of blue-footed boobies

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 799-808

  Ancona, Sergio ^a   Sánchez Colón, Salvador ^b   Rodríguez, Cristina ^a   Drummond, Hugh ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^b Consultoría Ambiental y Estadística ^*  (Mexico)

Author keywords

Breeding effort; Breeding success; Chick growth; Ocean productivity; Sea surface temperature; Southern Oscillation; Tropical Pacific

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; BROOD SIZE; CLUTCH SIZE; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; FLEDGING; GROWTH RATE; HATCHING DATE; NET ECOSYSTEM PRODUCTION; PREY AVAILABILITY; REPRODUCTIVE EFFORT; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEABIRD; TROPICAL REGION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIRD; EL NINO; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MEXICO; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; SEASON; TEMPERATURE; TROPIC CLIMATE;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; MEXICO; PACIFIC OCEAN; REPRODUCTION; SEASONS; TEMPERATURE; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

MAMMALIA; SULA NEBOUXII;

EID: 79958067918     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: 13652656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2011.01821.x     Document Type: Article

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