For millennia, humans have used seabird sightings and behavior as indicators of conditions
of the marine environment. Seabirds are highly visible and nest in large colonies in normally …

The frequency and severity of marine heatwaves (MHWs), an emergent property of global
warming, has led to large-scale disruptions to marine ecosystems. As upper trophic species …

Marine habitats are extremely valuable in many ways (eg, economically, culturally or for
subsistence) and provide many necessary services for humans (Costanza et al. 1997 …

Ocean warming events are becoming more frequent, with potential consequences for birds
that use marine resources. We analyzed the annual population growth of Heermann's Gulls …

Indices calculated from “muttonbirding” diaries collected by the Rakiura Māori of New
Zealand were correlated with future values of the Southern Oscillation Index (SOI), and the …

Abstract The southeastern Gulf of California is located where two major ocean systems
meet: the California Current at the north and the North Equatorial current at the south …

Abstract The California Brown Pelican subspecies (Pelecanus occidentalis californicus) was
removed from the US endangered species list in 2009, along with the entire species of …

Many factors have contributed to a decline in the tītī (sooty shearwater) Ardenna grisea
population in Aotearoa New Zealand since at least the 1960s. The relative impacts of …

The major histocompatibility complex (MHC) enables vertebrates to cope with pathogens
and maintain healthy populations, thus making it a unique set of loci for addressing ecology …

Climate change during the late Quaternary period (LQP), in both temperate and tropical
zones, has been a major driver in the shaping of species distributions and abundances. Our …