Search Results - "Hunt Jr, G. L."

Trends in carbon flux to seabirds in the Peruvian upwelling system: effects of wind and fisheries on population regulation by Jahncke, J., Checkley Jr, D. M., Hunt Jr, G. L.

“…We hypothesized that change in the annual population size of guano‐producing seabirds (cormorant, Phalacrocorax bougainvillii; booby, Sula variegata; pelican,…”
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Understanding the structure and functioning of polar pelagic ecosystems to predict the impacts of change by Murphy, E. J., Cavanagh, R. D., Drinkwater, K. F., Grant, S. M., Heymans, J. J., Hofmann, E. E., Hunt, G. L., Johnston, N. M.

“…The determinants of the structure, functioning and resilience of pelagic ecosystems across most of the polar regions are not well known. Improved understanding…”
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Mass mortality of short-tailed shearwaters in the south-eastern Bering Sea during summer 1997 by Baduini, C. L., Hyrenbach, K. D., Coyle, K. O., Pinchuk, A., Mendenhall, V., Hunt JR, G. L.

“…During summer 1997, hundreds of thousands of emaciated short‐tailed shearwaters (Puffinus tenuirostris) died in the south‐eastern Bering Sea. Using strip…”
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Predicting fish recruitment from juvenile abundance and environmental indices by Stige, Leif Christian, Hunsicker, Mary E., Bailey, Kevin M., Yaragina, Natalia A., Hunt, George L.

“…Prediction of year-class strength is a critical challenge for fisheries managers. Theoretically, predictions of recruitment should be better when they are…”
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Marine Ecology of Seabirds in Polar Oceans by Hunt, George L.

“…Patterns of seabird species' distributions differ between the Antarctic and the Arctic. In the Antarctic, distributions are annular or latitudinal, with strong…”
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Reproductive Performance of Seabirds: The Importance of Population and Colony Size by Hunt, George L., Eppley, Zoe A., Schneider, David C.

“…We compared reproductive performance of five species of seabirds at two colonies, St. George Island (2.5 million birds) and St. Paul Island (250,000 birds), in…”
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Climate change and control of the southeastern Bering Sea pelagic ecosystem by Hunt Jr, George L., Stabeno, Phyllis, Walters, Gary, Sinclair, Elizabeth, Brodeur, Richard D., Napp, Jeffery M., Bond, Nicholas A.

“…We propose a new hypothesis, the Oscillating Control Hypothesis (OCH), which predicts that pelagic ecosystem function in the southeastern Bering Sea will…”
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Increases in jellyfish biomass in the Bering Sea: implications for the ecosystem by Brodeur, Richard D., Sugisaki, Hiroya, Hunt, George L.

“…There has been a dramatic increase in jellyfish biomass over the eastern Bering Sea shelf since the early 1990s, which was previously hypothesized to have been…”
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Seabird associations with mesoscale eddies: the subtropical Indian Ocean by Hyrenbach, K. David, Veit, Richard R., Weimerskirch, Henri, Hunt, George L.

“…We investigated seabird–eddy associations in subtropical waters of the southern Indian Ocean during a summer (January) cruise from Amsterdam Island to Western…”
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Sex Ratios of Prefledging Western Gulls by James R. Sayce, Hunt, George L.

“…Western Gull (Larus occidentalis) chicks on Santa Barbara Island, California, had a sex ratio at hatching of 1.12 M/F (n = 609); the sex ratio of chicks ≥35…”
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Climate change and the control of energy flow in the southeastern Bering Sea by Hunt, George L, Stabeno, Phyllis J

“…We examine how coupling between physical and biological processes influences the production and transfer of energy to upper trophic-level species in the…”
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Breeding-Site Selection and Colony Formation in Double-Crested and Pelagic Cormorants by Siegel-Causey, Douglas, Hunt, George L.

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Characteristics and variability of the inner front of the southeastern Bering Sea by Kachel, N.B, Hunt, G.L, Salo, S.A, Schumacher, J.D, Stabeno, P.J, Whitledge, T.E

“…The inner front of the southeastern Bering Sea shows marked spatial variability in frontal characteristics created by regional differences in forcing…”
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Experimental Evidence That Female-Female Pairs in Gulls Result from a Shortage of Breeding Males by Conover, Michael R., Hunt, George L.

“…We tested the hypothesis that female-female pairings in Ring-billed (Larus delawarensis) and California gulls (L. californicus) result from a shortage of males…”
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Fluxes, Fins, and Feathers: Relationship Among the Bering, Chukchi, and Beaufort Seas in a Time of Climate Change by Sigler, M F, Renner, M, Danielson, S L, Eisner, L B, Lauth, R R, Kuletz, K J, Logerwell, E A, Hunt, GL Jr

“…Ocean currents, water masses, and seasonal sea ice formation determine linkages among and barriers between the biotas of the Bering, Chukchi, and Beaufort…”
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Estimation of carbon flux to dovekies ( Alle alle) in the North Water by Karnovsky, Nina J, Hunt, George L

“…We modeled the energy demand of seabirds in the North Water, focusing on the planktivorous dovekie ( Alle alle), the dominant species in the polynya. For the…”
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Resource allocation in breeding seabirds: responses to fluctuations in their food supply by Kitaysky, Alexander S., Hunt, George L., Flint, Elizabeth N., Rubega, Margaret A., Decker, Mary Beth

“…In the vicinity of the Pribilof Islands in the Bering Sea, abundance of food available to surface-foraging seabirds was greater during the chick-rearing period…”
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Patterns in diet reveal foraging site fidelity of short-tailed shearwaters in the southeastern Bering Sea by Baduini, Cheryl L., Hunt, George L., Pinchuk, Alexei I., Coyle, Kenneth O.

“…The short-tailed shearwaterPuffinus tenuirostrisis an apex predator in the southeastern Bering Sea ecosystem. During 1997 to 1999, a period of great…”
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Comparative Behavior of Male-Female and Female-Female Pairs among Western Gulls Prior to Egg-Laying by Hunt, G. L., Newman, A. L., Warner, M. H., Wingfield, J. C., Kaiwi, J.

“…The behavior of male-female (M-F) and female-female (F-F) paired Western Gulls (Larus occidentalis) before egg laying was examined on Santa Barbara Island,…”
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Comparative foraging ecology of planktivorous auklets in relation to ocean physics and prey availability by Hunt, George L., Russell, Robert W., Coyle, Kenneth O., Weingartner, Thomas

“…We tested the hypothesis that the spatial distributions of foraging least, crested and parakeet auklets (Aethia pusilla, A. cristatella and A. psittacula,…”
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