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Assessing the cumulative adverse effects of offshore wind energy development on seabird foraging guilds along the East Coast of the United States

Environmental Research Letters, 2019
Offshore wind farms are rapidly being permitted along the East Coast of the US, and with subsequent development could cumulatively affect seabird populations.
M Wing Goodale, Anita Milman, Curtice R Griffin   +2 more
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Seasonal variation in preen gland secretions of Tristram's Storm Petrel (Hydrobates tristrami)

Ibis, EarlyView.
Preen gland secretions are known to vary depending on sex, season and species and are thought to play essential roles in avian life history. However, their chemical composition and functions remain largely unclear in Procellariiform seabirds with well‐developed olfactory senses. Storm petrels, known for their distinctive body odour, may use preen gland
Taiki Terajima, Yutaka Yamamoto, Kentaro Nagaoka   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Food supplementation protects Magnificent frigatebird chicks against a fatal viral disease

Conservation Letters, 2019
Outbreaks of wildlife diseases are occurring at an unprecedented rate. In French Guiana, recurrent episodes of frigatebird chicks’ mortality due to a viral disease that first appeared in 2005 have recently turned into massive mortality episodes (85–95 ...
Manrico Sebastiano, Marcel Eens, Kévin Pineau, Olivier Chastel, David Costantini   +4 more
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A longitudinal study of avian pox in a small passerine, the Dunnock (Prunella modularis)

Ibis, EarlyView.
Long‐term, longitudinal studies of disease in wild bird populations are rare. Diseases are important determinants of bird survival and may spill‐over into other species including livestock and, in some cases, humans. Avian pox is a globally distributed disease, resulting from infection by viruses in the genus Avipoxvirus (APV).
Denise C. Wawman, Steven R. Fiddaman, Becki Lawson, Maria D. Christodoulou, Ben C. Sheldon, Adrian L. Smith   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Combining eDNA metabarcoding and stable isotope analysis advances diet studies in a colonial, non‐regurgitating seabird

Ibis, EarlyView.
Understanding seabird diet is fundamental to assessing trophic interactions and predicting responses to environmental change. However, seabird diet studies are often constrained by low taxonomic resolution, invasive sampling methods or reliance on opportunistically collected samples, leaving the diet of important populations such as Common Guillemots ...
Amelia Corvin‐Czarnodolski, Jonathan A. Green, Simon Creer, Amy Ellison, Rosemary Moorhouse‐Gann, Claire A. Carrington, Line Cordes, Shaun Fraser, Stephen G. Dodd, Katrien J. J. Van Landeghem, James J. Waggitt, Olivia C. Hicks   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Convergent mutations underpin the repeated evolution of brown plumage in seabirds

Ibis, EarlyView.
Recent genetic data have provided crucial insights into the evolution of animal colour phenotypes, with the melanocortin‐1 receptor (MC1R) frequently implicated in dramatic colour shifts. However, the extent to which similar phenotypes are underpinned by convergent mutations at this locus remains unclear.
Shanshan Shen, Graham A. McCulloch, Tania M. King, Nicolas J. Rawlence, Martyn Kennedy, Jonathan M. Waters   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Effects of seabirds on plant communities

, 2011
This chapter discusses the various effects of seabirds in plant communities inhabiting seabird islands. It conducts cross-system comparisons using datasets of seven systems that include seabird and non-seabird islands.
E.K. Cameron, Ellis, J. C., Bellingham, P. J., Croll, D. A., Mittelhauser, G. H., G.S. Kolb, Vidal, E., D.A. Croll, Schmidt, S., J.C. Ellis, C. Kueffer, E. Vidal, Kolb, G. S., Cameron, E. K., P.J. Bellingham, G.H. Mittelhauser, Wait, D. A., S. Schmidt, D.A. Wait, Kueffer, C.   +19 more
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Seasonal shifts in network structure and species roles in a tropical island plant–flower visitor community Cambios estacionales en la estructura de la red de interacciones entre plantas y visitantes florales y en los roles de las especies en una comunidad insular tropical

Insect Conservation and Diversity, EarlyView.
Constant visitation rates across the flowering season masked major shifts in plant and flower visitor interaction structure, specialization, species roles and trait‐driven patterns shaping interaction intensity. Plants and flower visitors changed ecological roles over time, with native flower visitors playing key roles in maintaining network cohesion ...
Alba Costa, Julia Jaca, Christopher N. Kaiser‐Bunbury, Anna Traveset   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Larval Arctic cod (Boreogadus saida) exhibit stronger developmental and physiological responses to temperature than to elevated pCO2

Journal of Fish Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract High‐latitude ecosystems are simultaneously warming and acidifying under ongoing climate change. Arctic cod (Boreogadus saida) are a key species in the Arctic Ocean and have demonstrated sensitivity to ocean warming and acidification as adults and embryos, but their larval sensitivity to the combined stressors is unknown. In a laboratory multi‐
Emily Slesinger, Louise A. Copeman, Benjamin J. Laurel, Mary Beth R. Hicks, Paul J. Iseri, Michelle A. Stowell, Thomas P. Hurst   +6 more
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Going digital: challenges in monitoring marine megafauna when comparing results from visual and digital aerial surveys

Frontiers in Marine Science
Since the first plans to develop offshore wind farms (OWFs), concerns have been raised about the impacts on marine megafauna. Today, it is required to assess these impacts over the whole lifecycle of the OWF.
Maud Quéroué, Maud Quéroué, Matthieu Authier, Aurélien Besnard, Karine Heerah   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source