[HTML][HTML] Causes and consequences of the late Holocene extinction of the marine flightless duck (Chendytes lawi) in the northeastern Pacific

TL Jones, JB Coltrain, DK Jacobs, J Porcasi… - Quaternary Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
The extinction of California's flightless duck, Chendytes lawi, stands out in the faunal history
of North America because it involved a marine animal that disappeared in the late Holocene …

Considerations for management strategy evaluation for small pelagic fishes

MC Siple, LE Koehn, KF Johnson, AE Punt… - Fish and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Management strategy evaluation (MSE) is the state‐of‐the‐art approach for testing and
comparing management strategies in a way that accounts for multiple sources of uncertainty …

Recent collapse of northern anchovy biomass off California

AD MacCall, WJ Sydeman, PC Davison, JA Thayer - Fisheries Research, 2016 - Elsevier
New estimates of abundance of northern anchovy (Engraulis mordax) are developed from
California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations (CalCOFI) data on egg and larval …

Ecosystem-based management affecting Brandt's Cormorant resources and populations in the central California Current region

DG Ainley, JA Santora, PJ Capitolo, JC Field… - Biological …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract The Brandt's Cormorant of the California Current is a “boom-or-bust” species like its
congeners in other eastern boundary, upwelling driven ecosystems, and like many of the …

[PDF][PDF] California anchovy population remains low, 2012–2016

JA Thayer, AD MacCall, WJ Sydeman… - CalCOFI Rep, 2017 - faralloninstitute.org
Updated abundance estimates of the central subpopulation of northern anchovy (Engraulis
mordax) are developed from California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations …

Reproductive success in the European shag is linked to annual variation in diet and foraging trip metrics

SH Lorentsen, J Mattisson… - … Ecology Progress Series, 2019 - int-res.com
Seabird populations have declined worldwide, and several of the potential threats are of
anthropogenic origin. To understand how changes in seabird populations relate to …

Which trophic discrimination factors fit the best? A combined dietary study of a coastal seabird

A Morgenthaler, A Millones, P Gandini, E Frere - Journal of Ornithology, 2021 - Springer
The use of combined conventional and stable isotope analyses to study the diet of seabirds
has become very frequent. Unfortunately species and tissue-specific Trophic Discrimination …

Variable utilization of shelf break-associated habitats by chick-brooding rhinoceros auklets in the California Current System

BP Wilkinson, J Jahncke, P Warzybok… - Marine Ecology …, 2018 - int-res.com
Identifying frequently complex and dynamic spatial distributions of marine predators via the
modeling of at-sea observations can be inherently challenging, especially when attempting …

Linking population trends of Antarctic shag (Phalacrocorax bransfieldensis) and fish at Nelson Island, South Shetland Islands (Antarctica)

R Casaux, E Barrera-Oro - Polar Biology, 2016 - Springer
This study aims to provide consistent information to explain the steady declining trend in the
number of breeding pairs of Antarctic shag Phalacrocorax bransfieldensis in two colonies on …

Brandt's cormorant diet (1994–2012) indicates the importance of fall ocean conditions for northern anchovy in central C alifornia

ML Elliott, AE Schmidt, S Acosta… - Fisheries …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Effective ecosystem‐based management requires a comprehensive understanding of the
functional links in the system. In many marine systems, forage species constitute a critical …