Reconstructing long-term changes in avian populations using lake sediments: Opening a window onto the past

MP Duda, KE Hargan, N Michelutti, JM Blais… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The lack of long-term monitoring data for many wildlife populations is a limiting factor in
establishing meaningful and achievable conservation goals. Even for well-monitored …

Tracking the southern hemisphere westerlies during and since the last glacial maximum with multiproxy lake records from the Falkland Islands (52° S)

M Spoth, B Hall, T Lowell, AF Diefendorf… - Quaternary Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The Southern Hemisphere Westerlies (SHW) and their linkages with key ocean and
atmospheric processes have the potential to drive abrupt climate change. The westerlies …

One of the least disturbed marine coastal ecosystems on Earth: Spatial and temporal persistence of Darwin's sub‐Antarctic giant kelp forests

A Mora‐Soto, A Capsey, AM Friedlander… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Marine habitats and their dynamics are difficult to systematically monitor, particularly
those in remote locations. This is the case with the sub‐Antarctic ecosystem of the giant kelp …

Evidence of prehistoric human activity in the Falkland Islands

KM Hamley, JL Gill, KE Krasinski, DV Groff, BL Hall… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
When Darwin visited the Falkland Islands in 1833, he noted the puzzling occurrence of the
islands' sole terrestrial mammal, Dusicyon australis (or “warrah”). The warrah's origins have …

Pollen evidence of variations in Holocene climate and Southern Hemisphere Westerly Wind strength on sub-Antarctic South Georgia

M Zwier, WGM van der Bilt, H de Stigter… - The …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
The Southern Hemisphere Westerlies (SHW) play a major role in the global climate system.
The winds drive ocean circulation and affect the Southern Oceans' ability to take up …

Scavenging gulls are biovectors of mercury from industrial wastes in Nova Scotia, Canada

JA McIntyre, NJ O'Driscoll, I Spooner, GJ Robertson… - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
Seabirds are important biovectors of contaminants, like mercury, moving them from marine
to terrestrial environments around breeding colonies. This transfer of materials can have …

Stable Southern Hemisphere westerly winds throughout the Holocene until intensification in the last two millennia

WGM van der Bilt, WJ D'Andrea, LT Oppedal… - … Earth & Environment, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract The Southern Hemisphere westerly winds sustain the Southern Ocean's role as one
of Earth's main carbon sinks, and have helped sequester nearly half the anthropogenic CO2 …

Birds influence vegetation coverage and structure on sandy biogeomorphic islands in the Dutch Wadden Sea

VC Reijers, F van Rees, T van der Heide… - Science of the Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
Small uninhabited islands form important roosting and breeding habitats for many coastal
birds. Previous studies have demonstrated that guano can promote ecosystem productivity …

Marine nutrient subsidies promote biogeochemical hotspots in undisturbed, highly humic estuaries

CD Evans, SL Felgate, S Carter… - Limnology and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The land‐ocean dissolved organic carbon (DOC) flux represents a significant term within the
global carbon budget, with peatland‐dominated regions representing the most intense …

A 2200-year record of Andean Condor diet and nest site usage reflects natural and anthropogenic stressors

MP Duda, C Grooms, L Sympson… - … of the Royal …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Understanding how animals respond to large-scale environmental changes is difficult to
achieve because monitoring data are rarely available for more than the past few decades, if …