Climatological Effects on the Breeding of Terns

G. D. Quartly , Sébastien Jaquemet (1) , Matthieu Le Corre (1) , D. Monticelli , Jaime Ramos (2)

1 ECOMAR - Laboratoire d'Ecologie Marine
2 IMAR-Institute of Marine Research, Department of Zoology

Poster about the physical circulation in the Western Indian Ocean controls the supply of nutrients, and this, combined with the stability of the surface layer and the availability of sunlight controls the primary production. In this note, we review two papers' findings on how the physical conditions ultimately impact upon the breeding of terns, a marinetop predator in the region. Rather than trace causal links through the food chain, we show empirical connections between avian breeding and the environmental conditions, all of which appear statistically significant.

Mots clés: avian breeding; Birds; Breeding; Chlorophyll; Climate variability; climatology; Ecology; food chain; Forestry; Humans; marinetop predator; nutrients supply; ocean circulation; ocean temperature; oceanographic regions; oceanographic techniques; Primary production; Production; Productivity; Sea measurements; Sea surface; seawater; Stability; Sterna; surface layer; Temperature sensors; tern breeding; Western Indian Ocean

Domaines: Biodiversité et Ecologie

G. D. Quartly, Sébastien Jaquemet, Matthieu Le Corre, D. Monticelli, Jaime Ramos. Climatological Effects on the Breeding of Terns. Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2008. IGARSS 2008. IEEE International, Jul 2008, Boston, United States. ⟨hal-00867257⟩