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climatic variables (temperature, rainfall, and NAO); c) PCA of the
breeding season climatic variables (temperature, rainfall, and
NAO). Abbreviations are as in Table 6.
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Figure S3 Trends of individually based covariates and
demographic traits. a) Time series of climatic indices
considered as candidate covariates in the analysis of survival and
recruitment (PB: Pre-Breeding, B: Breeding, WSR: rainfall,
WNAO: winter NAO). b). Estimated survival at Marettimo,
confidence intervals in dotted lines.
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Figure S4 Trends of environmental covariates and
demographic traits. a) Time series of sea surface temperature,
SST, and chlorophyll concentration, CHL, in the Alboran Sea. b)
Estimated survival and encounter rate at Marettimo’s colony using
Alboran Sea climatic conditions (CI values are nil thus not visible
in the graph).
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