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UVS is rare in seabirds

Vision Research, 2011
Ultraviolet-sensitive vision (UVS), believed to have evolved from an ancestral state of violet-sensitive vision (VS), is widespread among terrestrial birds, where it is thought to play a role in orientation, foraging, and sexual selection. Less is known, however, about the distribution and significance of UVS in seabirds.
Capuska, Gabriel E Machovsky, Huynen, Leon, Lambert, David, Raubenheimer, David   +3 more
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Demographic buffering in natural populations: A multi‐level perspective

Journal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.
We introduce a multi‐level framework that unites stochastic elasticities with nonlinear selection to test demographic buffering. Applying it across mammals reveals a key insight: ecological robustness to variability often decouples from evolutionary constraint, reshaping how we understand resilience under environmental stochasticity.
Gabriel Silva Santos, Samuel J. L. Gascoigne, André Tavares Corrêa Dias, Maja Kajin, Roberto Salguero‐Gómez   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Experience and trust: the benefits of mate familiarity are realized through sex-specific specialization of parental roles in Cassin’s auklet

Royal Society Open Science
Maintaining a pair bond year after year (perennial monogamy) often enhances reproductive success, but what familiar pairs are doing differently to improve success is unknown.
Amy Yanagitsuru, Christopher Tyson, Frédéric Angelier, Michael Johns, Thomas Hahn, John Wingfield, Haley Land-Miller, Rebecca Forney, Elisha Hull   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Looming-Eye Buoys temporarily reduce the number of fish-eating seabirds in pound nets [PDF]

Royal Society Open Science
Seabird depredation in fishing gear and aquaculture facilities is documented worldwide and can represent important revenue losses. Although sometimes considered a nuisance, seabirds are also generally protected, so the development of non-lethal methods ...
Gildas Glemarec, Casper Berg, Anne-Mette Kroner, Lotte Kindt-Larsen   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Offshore wind farm avoidance by a discard‐feeding seabird is independent of local fishing activity

Journal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.
Fishing is not allowed within wind farms; therefore, discard‐feeding seabirds may appear to avoid wind farm areas. We found that most Lesser Black‐backed Gulls avoided the wind farm area, but not each individual in each period. Avoidance of the wind farm was not driven by fishing exclusion within its perimeter.
Rosemarie Kentie, Rob S. A. van Bemmelen, Judy Shamoun‐Baranes, Eric W. M. Stienen, Ruben C. Fijn   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Tourists and the Seabirds in Galapagos [PDF]

Oryx, 1979
Are the seabird colonies in the Galapagos Islands harmed by the ever increasing numbers of tourists? So far the National Park authorities have been able to safeguard the main nesting grounds from trampling by keeping visitors to prescribed paths, but the birds could be harmed in other ways and these need to be investigated.
openaire   +3 more sources

The complete mitochondrial genome of the Band-rumped Storm Petrel (Oceanodroma castro)

Mitochondrial DNA. Part B. Resources, 2019
In this study, we report the complete mitochondrial genome sequence of the Endangered Band-rumped Storm Petrel (Oceanodroma castro), a globally distributed seabird. The mitogenome is 17,023 bp in length and has a base composition of A (30.5%), T (24.0%),
Carmen C. Antaky, Philip K. Kitamura, Ingrid S. Knapp, Robert J. Toonen, Melissa R. Price   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Snowmelt predicts earlier breeding across the latitudinal range of an Arctic nesting seabird, the Little Auk (Alle alle)

Journal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.
Multi‐year monitoring of the crevice‐nesting High Arctic seabird, the Little Auk (Alle alle), across four colonies spanning distinct climatic regimes revealed that snowmelt timing is a key and consistent driver of breeding phenology. Earlier snowmelt advances access to nesting habitat, enabling birds to initiate reproduction sooner. These findings show
Martyna Syposz, Øystein Varpe, Sébastien Descamps, Jérôme Fort, David Grémillet, Ann Harding, Dariusz Jakubas, Dorota Kidawa, Nomikos Skyllas, Hallvard Strøm, Tom S. L. Versluijs, Katarzyna Wojczulanis‐Jakubas   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sustainable Development Goals Applied to the Maritime Transportation Sector: Setting Sail for the Future

Natural Resources Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development aims to eradicate poverty, protect the environment, and promote prosperity through 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Achieving these goals requires a multi‐sectoral approach. Maritime transportation, vital to the global economy, significantly contributes to several SDGs and plays a strategic ...
Cátia Sousa, Ana Brasão, Tiago Silva, Stanislau Tserashkovich   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Using wingbeat frequency to estimate mass gain

Methods in Ecology and Evolution, EarlyView.
Abstract Energy intake is a fundamental currency in ecology that is critical to reproductive success, survival and lifetime fitness. Measuring foraging success in wild animals via biologgers has been a long‐standing challenge but is essential to understanding the mechanisms underlying population dynamics and species distributions.
Allison Patterson, Marie Auger‐Méthé, Kyle Elliott   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source