Effect of El Niño on the diet of a specialist seabird, Sula nebouxii, in the warm eastern tropical Pacific

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 462, Issue , 2012, Pages 261-271

  Ancona, Sergio ^a   Calixto Albarrán, Itzia ^b   Drummond, Hugh ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^b Secretaria de Educacion Publica   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Anchovies; Eastern tropical Pacific; El Ni o Southern Oscillation; Fish abundance; Herrings; Sardine fisheries; Seabird diet

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BREEDING SEASON; CLUPEOID; DATA INTERPRETATION; DATA SET; DIET; EL NINO; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; LA NINA; PELAGIC FISH; PREY AVAILABILITY; SEABIRD; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM; SPECIALIST;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 84865408473     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps09851     Document Type: Article

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