Using Long term harvest records of sooty shearwaters (Tītī; Puffinus griseus) to predict shifts in the Southern Oscillation

• Main Author: Humphries, Grant Richard Woodrow
• Other Authors: Moller, Henrik, Seddon, Phillip
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University of Otago 2014
• Subjects: Sooty shearwater; El Nino; Southern Oscillation; Spatial modeling; Machine learning; La Nina; Antarctic; Burrows; New Zealand; Pacific; Soi; Southern Ocean; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10523/4932

Rakiura Māori (New Zealand’s southern-most group of indigenous peoples) have harvested the chicks of burrow-nesting sooty shearwaters (Tītī; Puffinus griseus) for generations. As part of the harvest process some families have maintained annual harvest diaries, some of which date back to the 1950s. T...