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Most seabirds breed on oceanic islands, foraging at the uppermost levels of the marine food chain. Thus their evolution is intricately tied to atmospheric and oceanic conditions influencing the fish and squid populations upon which the birds feed (Ashmole, 1971) but we can primarily only study them on nesting islands. Christmas Island (2 N, 157 W), the largest coral atoll in the world, supports 18 species of breeding sea-birds (Schreiber and Ashmole, 1980; Schreiber and Schreiber, 1984).
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Schreiber, R.W., Schreiber, E.A. (1986). Christmas Island (Pacific Ocean) Seabirds and the EL Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO): 1984 Perspectives. In: Monbailliu, X. (eds) Mediterranean Marine Avifauna. NATO ASI Series, vol 12. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-70895-4_23
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