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Cormorant predation effects on fish populations: A global meta‐analysis [PDF]

open access: yesFish and Fisheries, 2021
This paper provides the results from the first meta-analysis to examine the impact of cormorant (Phalacrocoracidae) predation on fish. It is based on a systematic search of literature, covering studies using significance-based hypotheses tests on the ...
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Plumage and Ecology of Cormorants

Zoologica Africana, 1975
The paper draws on data attending the etho-ecology of four species of cormorants (Phalacrocoracidae) in support of an hypothesis for the adaptive significance of the predominantly dark plumage of these birds. It is suggested that a dark plumage, primarily by being most receptive to solar radiation, assists cormorants in supplementing metabolic heat for
Siegfried, W.R.   +3 more
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Classification of the cormorants of the world

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 2014
Relationships among the 40 or so extant species of cormorants (family Phalacrocoracidae) have been obscured by their morphological similarities, many of which have recently been shown to be the result of convergent evolution. Previous attempts to derive an evolutionarily justifiable classification for this group of birds using osteological and ...
Martyn Kennedy, Hamish G. Spencer
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Effects of management on double‐crested cormorant nesting colony fidelity

open access: yesJournal of Wildlife Management, 2011
The increase of double-crested cormorant (Phalacrocorax auritus; hereafter, cormorant) populations during the last 2 decades has impacted many stakeholder groups.
Bronson K Strickland, Brian S Dorr
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Night Fishing with Cormorants

ACM SIGGRAPH 2009 Computer Animation Festival, 2009
This animation is a very loose and abstract meditation, inspired in part by the 17th Century Japanese screen painting by Kano Tanyu, Night Fishing with Cormorants, and by the very stark and beautiful novel of Akira Yoshimura, Shipwrecks. I am not telling a naturalistic story in this piece, but rather I have tried to make a work that can hold in equal ...
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Cormorant

How does prejudice grow and mutate? What does intolerance, when transferred from human beings onto animals, do to those creatures? And what, in return, does it do to us? Cormorant is the gripping story of a 'greedy' bird hated across the world, the object of global conflict between the fishing industry on the one hand and environmental science on the ...
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Cormorant

2022
Michael Schaub, Marc Kéry
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