Effective ecosystem‐based management requires a comprehensive understanding of the functional links in the system. In many marine systems, forage species constitute a critical link between primary production and upper trophic level marine predators. As top predators, seabirds can be indicators of the forage species they consume and the ocean processes that influence these populations. We analyzed the diet and breeding success for the years 1994, 2003, 2005, and 2007–2012 of the Brandt's cormorant (Phalacrocorax penicillatus), a piscivorous diving seabird, breeding in central California, to evaluate the extent to which cormorant diet composition relates to prey availability, and how diet composition relates to breeding success and ocean conditions. Cormorant diet was primarily composed of young‐of‐the‐year (YOY) northern anchovy (Engraulis mordax), YOY rockfish (Sebastes spp.), and several species of small flatfish (order Pleuronectiformes). YOY rockfish consumption was positively related to their abundance as measured in a late spring pelagic midwater trawl survey. Northern anchovy appeared to be the most important prey as its consumption was positively related to cormorant breeding success. More northern anchovy were consumed in years where warm‐water conditions prevailed in the fall season before cormorant breeding. Thus, warm ocean conditions in the fall appear to be an important contributing factor in producing a strong year‐class of northern anchovy in central California and consequently a strong‐year class of Brandt's cormorant on the Farallon Islands.
Este artículo parte del deseo de plantear, explorar y poner en juego el rico dispositivo filosófico-metodológico de la Estética Modal 1 , así como reflexionar qué hay de enigmático, metafísico y a la vez mundano y necesario en la experiencia estética, en aquello que nos inquieta del arte como fenómeno en general y en especial de los objetos artísticos como cuerpos que se disponen hacia la reflexión filosófica. Desde una visión de la estética profundamente pragmática pretendemos guiar nuestra curiosidad hacia los flujos y transformaciones que se han dado en el mundo de la danza como materialización de las derivas culturales, políticas, sociales o espirituales para afirmar que a pesar de no responder a preguntas, así como sucede con la filosofía, el arte es capaz de plantear, suscitar y generar tanto espacios físicos como virtuales de reflexión y persistencia. Palabras clave: Estética Modal, fenómeno, transformaciones, cuerpo, danza, persistencia, experiencia estética.
The aesthetic tools proposed in this article pursue the intention of articulating and reflecting on dance as a phenomenon and artistic practice both from its generative and reflective ability. For that purpose I establish analogies between the complexities that aesthetic theory and dance share, from the modal interrelationships proposed in Estética modal, which give us the access to think in terms of transitivity, movement and interrelation. Especially in this article, I intend to focus on the intermediate playing field of tension and conflict of the aesthetic experience from the attractive Diamond Theory
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