This review highlights diatoms and their production of fatty acids at Arctic ice edges and
temperate estuaries as strategic in initiating high spring productivity. As important as their …

Climatic factors drive changes in forage fish communities and may influence the productivity
of piscivorous predators, but specific mechanisms of response remain poorly known …

Abstract The White-faced Storm Petrel (WFSP) Pelagodroma marina has a widespread
distribution, although virtually nothing is known about their feeding ecology and distributions …

Foraging ecology of chick rearing seabirds is affected mainly by the food availability on
feeding grounds, but it can be also modulated by environmental conditions during the …

Four of seven seabirds that are endemic to the Benguela ecosystem (African Penguin
Spheniscus demersus, Cape Gannet Morus capensis, Cape Cormorant Phalacrocorax …

Density‐dependent regulation can offer resilience to wild populations experiencing
fluctuations in environmental conditions because, at lower population sizes, the average …

Foraging provides an integrative view of the effects of environmental variability on marine
predators, from direct effects through increased energetic costs at sea to indirect effects …

The ability of individual animals to balance their energy budgets throughout the annual cycle
is important for their survival, reproduction and population dynamics. However, the annual …

Reproduction, and parental care in particular, are among the most energy-demanding
activities within the annual cycle of adult birds. Parents that cannot meet the metabolic …

Great Cormorants Phalacrocorax carbo in the eastern Baltic are expanding in numbers.
Eight colonies in Estonia, Finland and the Russian Federation were investigated in 2007 …