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Marine distribution and habitat use by Snow Petrels Pagodroma nivea in East Antarctica throughout the non-breeding period

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2023
The relationships between flying Antarctic seabirds and their at-sea environments remain poorly understood, particularly outside of the breeding season.
Benjamin Viola, Benjamin Viola, Barbara Wienecke, Cara-Paige Green, Stuart Corney, Stuart Corney, Ben Raymond, Ben Raymond, Colin Southwell, Michael D. Sumner, Michael D. Sumner, Patti Virtue, Patti Virtue, Simon Wotherspoon, Simon Wotherspoon, Louise Emmerson   +15 more
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Mediterranean seabird conservation: what can we do?

Scientia Marina, 2003
Human activities in the Mediterranean determine, to a large extent, the availability of food and breeding sites for seabirds, the two most important ecological requirements for breeding seabirds.
Eduardo Mínguez, Daniel Oro, Eduardo de Juana, Alejandro Martínez-Abraín   +3 more
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At-sea abundance and distribution of skuas and jaegers (Charadriiformes: Stercorariidae) at coastal waters off central Chile [PDF]

, 2014
Indexación: Web of Science; Scielo.BACKGROUND: Skuas and jaegers (Charadriiformes: Stercorariidae) are seabirds breeding at moderate to high latitudes and some perform extensive post-breeding transequatorial migrations.
Anguita, Cristóbal, Luna-Jorquera, Guillermo, Simeone, Alejandro   +2 more
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The use of demersal trawling discards as a food source for two scavenging seabird species: a case study of an eastern Mediterranean oligotrophic marine ecosystem

Avian Research, 2018
Background The banning of fisheries discards by imposing an obligation to land unwanted catch constitutes a key point of the Common Fishery Policy reform proposed by the European Commission.
Georgios Karris, Vlasis Ketsilis-Rinis, Anastasia Kalogeropoulou, Stavros Xirouchakis, Athanasios Machias, Irida Maina, Stefanos Kavadas   +6 more
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Molecular detection of Toxoplasma gondii and Neospora caninum in seabirds collected along the coast of Santa Catarina, Brazil [PDF]

Revista Brasileira de Parasitologia Veterinária
Toxoplasma gondii and Neospora caninum are two closely related protozoans that infect a wide range of animals, including birds. However, the occurrence of N. caninum and T. gondii in seabirds is unknown.
Ana Paula Sato, Tiffany Christiny Emmerich da Silva, Thamires Pires de Pontes, Aline Luiza Konell, Luiz Daniel de Barros, Mary Suzan Varaschin, Ivam Moreira de Oliveira Junior, Adrien Wilhelm Dilger Sanches, Rosangela Locatelli-Dittrich   +8 more
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Cross Sectional Anatomy and Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Juvenile Atlantic Puffin Head (Aves, Alcidae, Fratercula arctica)

Animals, 2023
The Atlantic puffin is a medium-sized seabird with black and white plumage and orange feet. It is distributed mainly along the northern Atlantic Ocean, and due, among other reasons, to human activities, it is in a threatened situation and classified as a
Marcos Fumero-Hernández, Mario Encinoso, Ayose Melian, Himar Artiles Nuez, Doaa Salman, José Raduan Jaber   +5 more
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Automatic nesting seabird detection based on boosted HOG-LBP descriptors [PDF]

, 2011
Seabird populations are considered an important and accessible indicator of the health of marine environments: variations have been linked with climate change and pollution 1.
Dickinson, Patrick, Freeman, Robin, Lawson, Shaun, Qing, Chunmei   +3 more
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A Review of Plastic-Associated Pressures: Cetaceans of the Mediterranean Sea and Eastern Australian Shearwaters as Case Studies

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2018
Impacts of debris on marine fauna occur throughout the marine ecosystems, with adverse impacts documented on over 1,400 species; impacts can be divided into those arising from entanglement, and those from ingestion.
Maria Cristina Fossi, Cristina Panti, Matteo Baini, Jennifer L. Lavers   +3 more
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Impacts of local human activities on the Antarctic environment [PDF]

, 2008
We review the scientific literature, especially from the past decade, on the impacts of human activities on the Antarctic environment. A range of impacts has been identified at a variety of spatial and temporal scales.
Agnew, Agnew, Ainley, Baker, Ballance, Bargagli, Barrera-Oro, Brown, C.A. Moreno, Chen, Clarke, Clarke, Constable, Constable, Constable, Convey, Convey, Convey, Convey, Cooney, Croxall, Croxall, D.G. Ainley, de Leeuw, de Poorter, Delord, DeVries, Duhamel, Edwards, Fraser, Frenot, Gon, Greenslade, Greenslade, Greenslade, Gremmen, Gröndahl, Hansom, Hee, Hemmings, Hofman, Holmes, Hughes, Huiskes, I. Snape, J. Scott, Jones, Jouventin, K.A. Hughes, Kennicutt, Kerry, Knox, Kock, Kock, Kock, Kohnen, Laws, McDonald, Moreno, Morris, Muller-Schwarze, Naveen, Naveen, Nicol, Ohtani, Olech, Otley, P. Convey, Pauly, Pauly, Peter, Pfeiffer, Pfeiffer, Rounsevell, S. Pfeiffer, Salwicka, Sjoling, Sladen, Smith, Smith, Snape, Snape, Summerson, T. Tin, Tejedo, Thor, Trathan, Weimerskirch, Wheeler, Willock, Woehler, Z.L. Fleming   +91 more
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Causes of mortality of seabirds stranded at the Northeastern coast of Brazil

Pesquisa Veterinária Brasileira
: The aim of this work was to determine the main species of stranded seabirds at the Northeastern coast of Brazil in addition to the most frequent causes of stranding and mortality. The study was conducted in a monitored area for three years (2012-2014),
Daniela B. Mariani, Bruno J.M. Almeida, Andrei D.M. Febrônio, Jociery E. Vergara-Parente, Francisco A.L. Souza, Fábio S. Mendonça   +5 more
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