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The Lantern fishes / by Charles Henry Gilbert ; with six plates. [PDF]

, 1908
v.26:no.6 ...
Gilbert, Charles H. (Charles Henry), 1859-1928
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Assisted colonization of albatrosses in the California Channel Islands: conservation basis and suitability assessment

Frontiers in Conservation Science
Laysan (Phoebastria immutabilis) and Black-footed Albatrosses (P. nigripes) nest primarily on low-lying atolls in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands that are threatened by inundation from sea level rise and increasing storm surge associated with climate ...
Eric A. VanderWerf, Nick D. Holmes, Scott A. Morrison, C. Robby Kohley, Alex Wegmann, Lindsay C. Young   +5 more
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Genomic Characterisation of a Novel Avipoxvirus Isolated from an Endangered Northern Royal Albatross (Diomedea sanfordi)

Pathogens, 2021
Marine bird populations have been declining globally with the factors driving this decline not fully understood. Viral diseases, including those caused by poxviruses, are a concern for endangered seabird species.
Subir Sarker, Ajani Athukorala, Tadiwa Nyandowe, Timothy R. Bowden, David B. Boyle   +4 more
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The albatross plot: A novel graphical tool for presenting results of diversely reported studies in a systematic review

Research Synthesis Methods, 2017
Meta‐analyses combine the results of multiple studies of a common question. Approaches based on effect size estimates from each study are generally regarded as the most informative.
Sean Harrison, H. Jones, Richard M. Martin, S. Lewis, J. Higgins   +4 more
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Developing UAV Monitoring of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands’ Iconic Land-Based Marine Predators

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021
Many remote islands present barriers to effective wildlife monitoring in terms of challenging terrain and frequency of visits. The sub-Antarctic islands of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands are home to globally significant populations of ...
John Dickens, Philip R. Hollyman, Tom Hart, Gemma V. Clucas, Eugene J. Murphy, Sally Poncet, Philip N. Trathan, Martin A. Collins   +7 more
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Albatross: A scalable simulation-based inference pipeline for analysing stellar streams in the Milky Way [PDF]

arXiv, 2023
Stellar streams are potentially a very sensitive observational probe of galactic astrophysics, as well as the dark matter population in the Milky Way. On the other hand, performing a detailed, high-fidelity statistical analysis of these objects is challenging for a number of key reasons.
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Vaccination protects endangered albatross chicks against avian cholera

, 2018
Global change is contributing to unprecedented expansions of infectious diseases in wildlife. Recurrent avian cholera outbreaks are causing dramatic chick mortality and population decline in endangered albatross colonies on Amsterdam Island, a critical ...
V. Bourret, Amandine Gamble, J. Tornos, A. Jaeger, K. Delord, C. Barbraud, P. Tortosa, Sarah Kada, J. Thiebot, E. Thibault, H. Gantelet, H. Weimerskirch, R. Garnier, T. Boulinier   +13 more
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Foraging Strategies of Laysan Albatross Inferred from Stable Isotopes: Implications for Association with Fisheries. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2015
Fatal entanglement in fishing gear is the leading cause of population decline for albatross globally, a consequence of attraction to bait and fishery discards of commercial fishing operations.
Ann E Edwards, Shannon M Fitzgerald, Julia K Parrish, John L Klavitter, Marc D Romano   +4 more
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Telemetry reveals existing marine protected areas are worse than random for protecting the foraging habitat of threatened shy albatross (Thalassarche cauta)

Diversity and Distributions: A journal of biological invasions and biodiversity, 2018
To assess the efficacy of marine reserves in Australia for shy albatross, using long‐term tracking data.
C. Mason, R. Alderman, Jennifer McGowan, H. Possingham, A. Hobday, M. Sumner, J. Shaw   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A Century of Copepods: The U.S. Fisheries Steamer Albatross [PDF]

, 1999
The marine invertebrates of North America received little attention before the arrival of Louis Agassiz in 1846. Agassiz and his students, particularly Addison E. Verrill and Richard Rathbun, and Agassiz's colleague Spencer F. Baird, provided the concept
Damkaer, David M.
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