Intrinsic and extrinsic drivers of shape variation in the albatross compound bill. [PDF]
R Soc Open Sci, 2023 Albatross are the largest seabirds on Earth and have a suite of adaptations for their pelagic lifestyle. Rather than having a bill made of a single piece of keratin, Procellariiformes have a compound rhamphotheca, made of several joined plates.
Tyler J, Hocking DP, Younger JL.
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Individual consistency in the localised foraging behaviour of shy albatross (Thalassarche cauta). [PDF]
Ecol Evol, 2023 Quantifying the intra‐ and interindividual variation that exists within a population can provide meaningful insights into a population's vulnerability and response to rapid environmental change.
Mason C, Hobday AJ, Lea MA, Alderman R.
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Sexual Dimorphism and Foraging Trips of the Laysan Albatross (Phoebastria immutabilis) on Guadalupe Island [PDF]
Animals, 2019 Sexual dimorphism in the Laysan albatross (Phoebastria immutabilis) on Guadalupe Island was evaluated during the breeding seasons of 2015−2018 by measuring and comparing 10 morphological attributes: cranial length, bill length, nostril length ...
Julio César Hernández Montoya +8 more
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Wandering albatrosses exert high take-off effort only when both wind and waves are gentle. [PDF]
Elife, 2023 The relationship between the environment and marine animal small-scale behavior is not fully understood. This is largely due to the difficulty in obtaining environmental datasets with a high spatiotemporal precision. The problem is particularly pertinent
Uesaka L +5 more
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Differential impacts of wind and waves on albatross flight performance in two ocean basins. [PDF]
Mov EcolBackground Albatrosses can commute long distances to feed during the breeding season by avoiding energetically costly flapping flight. Energy from both wind and waves can be used to sustain soaring and reduce flapping flight, yet most studies of ...
Maywar IJ +5 more
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Predicting fisheries from albatross movements requires accounting for individual variability in interaction. [PDF]
Sci RepLe Scornec E +5 more
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DP and the Art of Perfect Positioning [PDF]
Modeling, Identification and Control, 2022 How does a vessel keep its position at sea without mooring? The answer is through dynamic positioning, or DP. Advanced technology, combining position reference sensors, computers, propellers and thrusters, is used to counteract environmental forces such ...
Stig Kvaal, Stig Østby, Morten Breivik
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Successful Long-Distance Breeding Range Expansion of a Top Marine Predator
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Little is known about the effects of large-scale breeding range expansions on the ecology of top marine predators. We examined the effects of a recent range expansion on the breeding and foraging ecology of Laysan albatrosses (Phoebastria immutabilis ...
Robert William Henry +9 more
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Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022 Few studies have assessed the influence of data quality on the predicted probability of occurrence and preferred habitat of marine predators. We compared results from four species distribution models (SDMs) for four southern-hemisphere albatross species,
Kimberly T. Goetz +14 more
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FastFix Albatross Data: Snapshots of Raw GPS L-1 Data from Southern Royal Albatross
Data, 2021 This dataset contains 4-millisecond snapshots of the GPS radio spectrum stored by wildlife tracking tags deployed on adult Southern Royal Albatross (Diomedea epomophora) in New Zealand.
Timothy C. A. Molteno, Keith W. Payne
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