Pinnipeds and El Niño
Responses to Environmental Stress
Editors: Trillmich, Fritz, Ono, Kathryn A. (Eds.)
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El Niño is a meteorological and oceanographic phenomenon, which occurs at irregular intervals in the eastern tropical Pacific. Its most obvious characteristic is the warming of surface waters, which causes enormous disturbances of the marine environment. A severe Niño may also affect continental systems worldwide. This book gathers in a comprehensive way the information available on the effects of the exceptionally strong 1982-83 Niño on a group of marine mammals, the pinnipeds. It presents an analysis of the effects of environmental stress on the populations of top predators. Data and interpretations are based on a most unusual collection of long-term studies of pinniped population dynamics, behavior and ecology which spanned the El Niño event. The responses of pinniped populations to the El Niño disturbance of the marine ecosystem also has important implications for the management and conservation of marine mammal populations.
- Table of contents (27 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 3-7
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The Time Sequence and Magnitude of Physical Effects of El Niño in the Eastern Pacific
Pages 8-21
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Biological Consequences of the 1982–83 EI Niño in the Eastern Pacific
Pages 22-42
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Introductory Remarks on the Natural History of Fur Seals
Pages 45-46
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El Niño Effects on Pinnipeds in Northern Chile
Pages 47-54
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Table of contents (27 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Pinnipeds and El Niño
- Book Subtitle
- Responses to Environmental Stress
- Editors
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- Fritz Trillmich
- Kathryn A. Ono
- Series Title
- Ecological Studies
- Series Volume
- 88
- Copyright
- 1991
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- Copyright Holder
- Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-642-76398-4
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-642-76398-4
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-642-76400-4
- Series ISSN
- 0070-8356
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XIII, 293
- Topics
