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DNA Metabarcoding Reveals the Diet and Conservation Needs of the Chinese Crested Tern and Greater Crested Terns in Zhejiang Breeding Islands [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionAs top predators and environmental sentinels in marine ecosystems, seabirds face significant pressure from global fisheries in competing for fish resources.
Peng Ding +10 more
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Seabird-vectored pelagic nutrients integrated into temperate intertidal rocky shores
Frontiers in Marine ScienceSeabirds provide inter-habitat connectivity by transporting vast quantities of nutrients from their pelagic feeding grounds to terrestrial and marine ecosystems via their nitrogen and phosphorous rich guano.
Cassandra E Benkwitt +2 more
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Artificial light at night correlates with seabird groundings: mapping city lights near a seabird breeding hotspot [PDF]
PeerJ, 2022 Artificial light at night (ALAN) is a growing conservation concern for seabirds, which can become disoriented and grounded by lights from buildings, bridges and boats. Many fledgling seabirds, especially Procellariiformes such as petrels and shearwaters,
Ariel-Micaiah Heswall +6 more
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Scientific Reports, 2022 The population of the Endangered African penguin Spheniscus demersus has decreased by > 65% in the last 20 years. A major driver of this decrease has been the reduced availability of their principal prey, sardine Sardinops sagax and anchovy Engraulis ...
Tegan Carpenter-Kling +9 more
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Marine subsidies produce cactus forests on desert islands
Scientific Reports, 2022 In island systems, nitrogen-rich seabird guano is a marine subsidy that can shape terrestrial plant communities. In zones of nutrient upwelling such as the Gulf of California, copious seabird guano is commonplace on bird islands.
Benjamin T. Wilder +2 more
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Scientific Reports, 2021 Bycatch in fisheries is a major threat to many seabird species. Understanding and predicting spatiotemporal changes in seabird bycatch from fisheries might be the key to mitigation.
Rujia Bi, Yan Jiao, Joan A. Browder
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Using meta-population models to guide conservation action
Global Ecology and Conservation, 2021 Biodiversity conservation is limited by resources, data, and time for execution. To maximize efficacy, it is best if conservation plans are strategically evaluated for cost, feasibility, and likely impact prior to implementation.
Diana Madrigal Ruiz +4 more
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Frontiers in Marine Science, 2023 IntroductionThe Scotia Sea and Antarctic Peninsula are warming rapidly and changes in species distribution are expected. In predicting habitat shifts and considering appropriate management strategies for marine predators, a community-level understanding ...
Victoria Marja Sofia Ollus +10 more
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Evaluation of the effectiveness of light streamer tori-lines and characteristics of bait attacks by seabirds in the western North Pacific. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 To improve the effectiveness of tori-lines it is necessary to evaluate the ability of tori-lines to mitigate seabird bycatch and determine what kind of seabird species gather during line settings, attack the bait and are incidentally caught. We conducted
Noriyosi Sato +3 more
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Population Trend of the World's Monitored Seabirds, 1950-2010. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Seabird population changes are good indicators of long-term and large-scale change in marine ecosystems, and important because of their many impacts on marine ecosystems.
Michelle Paleczny +3 more
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