Reproduction of the blue-footed booby predicts commercial fish abundance in the eastern tropical Pacific | Zendy

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Reproduction of the blue-footed booby predicts commercial fish abundance in the eastern tropical Pacific

Author(s) -

Juan Meraz,

Sergio Ancona,

Cristina Rodríguez,

Hugh Drummond

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

ices journal of marine science

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.348

H-Index - 117

eISSN - 1095-9289

pISSN - 1054-3139

DOI - 10.1093/icesjms/fst076

Subject(s) - abundance (ecology) , reproduction , fish <actinopterygii> , geography , fishery , predation , biology , ecology

To establish whether reproduction in a colony of the blue-footed booby in the eastern tropical Pacific predicts local abundance of prey fish several months later, 13 years of data were analysed. Eight reproductive variables assessed during the period of January –May, grouped in two factors, were related to commercial catches in the surrounding 6600 km 2 area during the following June –December. The first factor

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