Sea surface temperature constrains wedge-tailed shearwater foraging success within breeding seasons

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 281, Issue , 2004, Pages 259-266

  Peck, Darren R ^a   Smithers, Brian V ^a   Krockenberger, Andrew K ^a   Congdon, Bradley C ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Foraging success; Global warming; Sea surface temperature; Seabirds; Shearwater; SST; Temporal scale

Indexed keywords

BREEDING SEASON; EL NINO; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GLOBAL WARMING; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEABIRD;

GALLUS GALLUS; PUFFINUS; PUFFINUS PACIFICUS;

EID: 9644302305     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps281259     Document Type: Article

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