Spatial ecology and conservation of seabirds facing global climate change: a review

D Grémillet, T Boulinier - Marine Ecology Progress Series, 2009 - int-res.com
In this review we detail the impact of climate change on marine productivity, on marine
environmental stochasticity and cyclicity, and on the spatio-temporal match–mismatch of …

A review of the use of seabirds as indicators in fisheries and ecosystem management

LD Einoder - Fisheries Research, 2009 - Elsevier
This paper reviews the use of seabirds in fisheries management around the world, and
provides a comprehensive overview of the many factors that should be considered in order …

Rapid biogeographical plankton shifts in the North Atlantic Ocean

B Gregory, L Christophe, E Martin - Global change biology, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Large‐scale biogeographical changes in the biodiversity of a key zooplankton group
(calanoid copepods) were detected in the north‐eastern part of the North Atlantic Ocean and …

The foraging decisions of a central place foraging seabird in response to fluctuations in local prey conditions

CM Burke, WA Montevecchi - Journal of Zoology, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
During reproduction, seabirds need to balance the demands of self‐and offspring‐
provisioning within the constraints imposed by central place foraging. To assess behavioral …

Steller sea lion foraging response to seasonal changes in prey availability

MF Sigler, DJ Tollit, JJ Vollenweider… - Marine Ecology …, 2009 - int-res.com
We hypothesized that:(1) Steller sea lion Eumetopias jubatus diet choice is a function of prey
availability,(2) sea lions move to take advantage of times and locations of seasonal prey …

Sex‐specific food provisioning in a monomorphic seabird, the common guillemot Uria aalge: nest defence, foraging efficiency or parental effort?

CB Thaxter, F Daunt, KC Hamer… - Journal of Avian …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Sexual differences in food provisioning rates of monomorphic seabirds are well known but
poorly understood. Here, we address three hypotheses that attempt to explain female …

Long‐term changes in breeding phenology at two seabird colonies in the western North Sea

S Wanless, M Frederiksen, J Walton, MP Harris - Ibis, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
There is compelling evidence that the breeding phenology of many species has changed
substantially in recent decades. However, taxonomic and spatial variation in the direction …

Size matters: variation in the diet of chick and adult crested terns

LJ McLeay, B Page, SD Goldsworthy, TM Ward… - Marine Biology, 2009 - Springer
We investigated ontogenetic, temporal and spatial patterns in the composition and size of
prey in the diet of crested terns, Sterna bergii. Diet analyses indicated that crested terns are …

Spatio-temporal associations between harbour porpoise Phocoena phocoena and specific fisheries in the German Bight

H Herr, HO Fock, U Siebert - Biological Conservation, 2009 - Elsevier
Interactions between cetaceans and fisheries are a major concern of cetacean conservation
and fisheries management, as by-catch and resource competition occur as a result. To …

Biochemical tracers reveal intra-specific differences in the food webs utilized by individual seabirds

CE Hebert, DVC Weseloh, LT Gauthier, MT Arts… - Oecologia, 2009 - Springer
Food web structure regulates the pathways and flow rates of energy, nutrients, and
contaminants to top predators. Ecologically and physiologically meaningful biochemical …