Seabirds of the Farallon Islands: Ecology, Dynamics, and Structure of an Upwelling-system CommunitySummarizing a 15-year study of the seabird community on this small group of rocks about 20 miles offshore of San Francisco, this volume is both a detailed account of a seabird breeding ecology and a challenge to the prevailing conception of ecological stability as the typical seabird lifestyle. With |
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Contents
Seasonal and Annual Patterns in the Marine Environment Near | 23 |
The Feeding Ecology of Farallon Seabirds | 51 |
Seasonal Patterns of Trophic Demands 52 Seabird Feeding Studies | 104 |
Prey Size 125 Summary | 126 |
Leachs StormPetrel and Ashy StormPetrel | 128 |
Brandts Cormorant | 163 |
Farallon Population 168 Occurrence Patterns | 172 |
Egg Laying 177 Reproductive Success 184 The Cormorant Breeding | 193 |
Farallon Population 223 Occurrence Patterns | 225 |
Egg Laying 227 Reproductive Success 236 The Western Gull | 242 |
Farallon Population 250 Occurrence Patterns | 252 |
Egg Laying 258 Reproductive Success 264 The Murre Breeding | 273 |
Cassins Auklet | 306 |
Rhinoceros Auklet and Tufted Puffin | 339 |
Patterns at the Community Level | 349 |
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Farallon Populations 198 Occurrence Patterns | 203 |
Reproduction in the Pelagic Cormorant 208 Reproduction in | 217 |
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abundant adults Ainley anchovies Appendix areas Ashy Storm-Petrel asymptotic weight average between-year birds Birkhead Brandt's Cormorants breeding population breeding season breeding success burrows California Current Cassin's Auklet cavities central California Chapter chicks fledged coast colonies Common Murre diet differences diving Double-crested Cormorants early ecology egg laying ENSO euphausiids factor Farallon Islands Farallon population Farallon seabirds Farallon species feeding Figure fish fledging success fledging weights flocks food availability foraging growth habitat hatching success Hunt incubation period indicated June juvenile rockfish laid late Leach's Storm-Petrel M. P. Harris Manuwal marine nest sites nestling period niche nonbreeding North number of chicks observed occurred offshore overlap Pacific pair patterns Pelagic Cormorant Pigeon Guillemot plot PRBO predation prey range reproductive success Rhinoceros Auklet rockfish sample sea-surface temperatures second clutches similar Sooty Shearwater Southeast Farallon Sowls Table Tufted Puffin unpubl variability variation warm-water waters Western Gull winter
Bibliographic information
| Title | Seabirds of the Farallon Islands: Ecology, Dynamics, and Structure of an Upwelling-system Community |
| Author | David G. Ainley |
| Editor | Robert J. Boekelheide |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Stanford University Press, 1990 |
| ISBN | 0804715300, 9780804715300 |
| Length | 450 pages |
| Subjects | › Nature / Birdwatching Guides |
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