Polar marine ecosystems have global ecological and economic importance because of their
unique biodiversity and their major role in climate processes and commercial fisheries …

Several studies have attempted to identify the selective pressures leading to reversed size
dimorphism (RSD), a characteristic of skuas and of a wide range of bird species with a …

Detecting change is necessary for effective ecosystem management, yet temporal data on
key ecosystem components are lacking for many polar and subpolar regions. For example …

Summary The Falkland Islands support seabird populations that are of regional and global
importance. Numerically they can influence the global conservation status of individual …

Seabirds feed at high trophic levels and therefore are important indicators of marine
ecosystem health. In this thesis, the year-round distribution, activity patterns and diet of …

Throughout 2010 and 2011, Macquarie Island underwent a substantial conservation
intervention that drastically altered the state of its ecosystem. After 140 years of inhabiting …

Seabirds act as both predators and as prey. In the marine environment, seabird foraging
patterns can reflect ocean conditions. On land, their breeding success reflects constraints …

RESUMEN La Escúa Parda (Stercorarius antarcticus) y la Escúa Común (Stercorarius
chilensis) se reproducen en el sur de América del Sur: la primera en la costa de Argentina …

The Falklands skua is an important, but understudied, component of the Falklands marine
megafauna and biodiversity. We carried out field work on skuas at different locations in the …

Between 1995 and 2016 our research team carried out various research projects on wildlife
and environment of Sea Lion Island (Falkland Islands; SLI hereafter), including a long term …