Non-stationary seabird responses reveal shifting ENSO dynamics in the northeast Pacific

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 499, Issue , 2014, Pages 249-258

  Schmidt, Annie E ^a,b   Botsford, Louis W ^a   Eadie, John M ^a   Bradley, Russell W ^b   Di Lorenzo, Emanuele ^c   Jahncke, Jaime ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b PRBO CONSERVATION SCIENCE   (United States)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

California Current; Climate change; Non stationary; Ocean conditions; Reproductive success; Seabird; Sliding correlation

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; BOTTOM-UP CONTROL; CLIMATE CHANGE; CORRELATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FOOD WEB; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEABIRD; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP; TROPHIC LEVEL;

CALIFORNIA CURRENT; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84895558265     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps10629     Document Type: Article

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