Seabird foraging ranges as a preliminary tool for identifying candidate Marine Protected Areas

CB Thaxter, B Lascelles, K Sugar, ASCP Cook… - Biological …, 2012 - Elsevier
There is a growing need to identify Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) for marine species. For
seabirds, MPAs include those near breeding colonies, offshore foraging areas, inshore …

Exploitation of trawler discards by breeding seabirds in the north-western Mediterranean: differences between the Ebro Delta and the Balearic Islands areas

D Oro, X Ruiz - ICES Journal of marine science, 1997 - academic.oup.com
Local trawler fisheries operate around the seabird colonies of the Ebro Delta and Majorca.
The use made of the discards produced by this fishery by scavenging breeding seabirds …

Effects of local fisheries and ocean productivity on the northeastern Ionian Sea ecosystem

C Piroddi, B Giovanni, C Villy - Ecological modelling, 2010 - Elsevier
To better understand the effects of fisheries and ocean productivity on the northeastern
Ionian Sea we constructed an Ecopath with Ecosim model with 22 functional groups. Data …

Nest habitat selection by eight syntopic species of Mediterranean gulls and terns

M Fasola, L Canova - Colonial Waterbirds, 1992 - JSTOR
We studied the nesting habitats of eight species of seabirds which breed in neighboring
colonies within the same lagoon in northern Italy. We investigated habitat partitioning among …

Occurrence of rare earth elements in fledgelings of Thalasseus sandvicensis

M Picone, GG Distefano, F Corami, P Franzoi… - Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Rare Earth Elements (REEs) are increasingly exploited for crucial new
technologies, and their massive use in the past decades has significantly increased their …

GPS-tracking and colony observations reveal variation in offshore habitat use and foraging ecology of breeding Sandwich Terns

RC Fijn, J de Jong, W Courtens, H Verstraete… - Journal of Sea …, 2017 - Elsevier
Breeding success of seabirds critically depends on their foraging success offshore.
However, studies combining at-sea tracking and visual provisioning observations are …

Modelling Terrestrial and Marine Foraging Habitats in Breeding Audouin's Gulls Larus audouinii: Timing Matters

J Bécares, M García-Tarrasón, D Villero, S Bateman… - PLoS …, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Although the breeding ecology of Audouin's gull has been widely studied, its spatial
distribution patterns have received little attention. We assessed the foraging movements of …

Colony site selection by eight species of gulls and terns breeding in the≪ Valli di Comacchio≫(Italy)

M Fasola, L Canova - Italian Journal of Zoology, 1991 - Taylor & Francis
Former studies of nesting habitat selection by seabirds have been limited to single species,
or two‐species assemblages, and have not assessed the influence of interspecific …

Influence of environmental factors and energetic value of food on Little Tern Sterna albifrons chick growth and food delivery

VH Paiva, JA Ramos, T Catry, P Pedro, R Medeiros… - Bird Study, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
Capsule Chick diet and early growth parameters differed between birds breeding on natural
(sandy beaches) and alternative (salinas) habitats. Aims To describe diet and growth of Little …

Foraging Radii and Energetics of Least Auklets (Aethia pusilla) Breeding on Three Bering Sea Islands

BS Obst, RW Russell, GL Hunt Jr… - Physiological …, 1995 - journals.uchicago.edu
We studied the relationship between the foraging radius and energy economy of least
auklets (Aethia pusilla) breeding in colonies on three islands in the Bering Sea (St …