Demographic effects of extreme weather events: snow storms, breeding success, and population growth rate in a long-lived Antarctic seabird
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Demographic effects of extreme weather events: snow storms, breeding success, and population growth rate in a long-lived Antarctic seabird
Weather extremes are one important element of ongoing climate change, but their impacts are poorly understood because they are, by definition, rare events. If the frequency and severity of extreme weather events increase, there is an urgent need to understand and predict the ecological consequences of such events. In this study, we aimed to quantify the effects of snow storms on nest survival i...
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عنوان ژورنال: Ecology and Evolution
سال: 2014
ISSN: 2045-7758
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.1357