The importance of isotopic turnover for understanding key aspects of animal ecology and nutrition

WA Carter, U Bauchinger, SR McWilliams - Diversity, 2019 - mdpi.com
Stable isotope-based methods have proved to be immensely valuable for ecological studies
ranging in focus from animal movements to species interactions and community structure …

Bycatch in the West Greenland lumpfish fishery, with particular focus on the common eider population

FR Merkel, S Post, M Frederiksen… - Marine Ecology …, 2022 - int-res.com
Incidental bycatch is a well-known challenge in gillnet fisheries throughout the world, and
the fishery for North Atlantic lumpfish Cyclopterus lumpus roe is no exception. In Greenland …

Testing for effects of growth rate on isotope trophic discrimination factors and evaluating the performance of Bayesian stable isotope mixing models experimentally: A …

KEB Gurney, HL Classen, RG Clark - PloS one, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Discerning assimilated diets of wild animals using stable isotopes is well established where
potential dietary items in food webs are isotopically distinct. With the advent of mixing …

Favorable spring conditions can buffer the impact of winter carryover effects on a key breeding decision in an Arctic‐breeding seabird

RJ Steenweg, GT Crossin, HL Hennin… - Ecology and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The availability and investment of energy among successive life‐history stages is a key
feature of carryover effects. In migratory organisms, examining how both winter and spring …

Multicentury perspective assessing the sustainability of the historical harvest of seaducks

KE Hargan, HG Gilchrist, NMT Clyde… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Where available, census data on seabirds often do not extend beyond a few years or
decades, challenging our ability to identify drivers of population change and to develop …

Canadian murre harvest management in the face of uncertainty: a potential biological removal approach

AR Cox, C Roy, A Hanson… - The Journal of Wildlife …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
How to manage harvest under great uncertainty is a fundamental question for many wildlife
managers, particularly when resources necessary to estimate abundance or population …

Environmental and life-history factors influence inter-colony multidimensional niche metrics of a breeding Arctic marine bird

RA Smith, DJ Yurkowski, KJL Parkinson, J Fort… - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Human industrialization has resulted in rapid climate change, leading to wide-scale
environmental shifts. These shifts can modify food web dynamics by altering the abundance …

Breeding eider ducks strongly influence subarctic coastal pond chemistry

MP Duda, KE Hargan, N Michelutti, LE Kimpe, N Clyde… - Aquatic Sciences, 2018 - Springer
Arctic freshwater ponds are typically pristine and oligotrophic, however seabird biovectors
can markedly alter water quality via enrichment with marine-derived nutrients and …

Using stable-isotope analysis and acoustic telemetry data to infer broad-scale migration patterns of Port Jackson sharks (Heterodontus portusjacksoni)

NC Bass, NE Hussey, C Brown - Marine and Freshwater …, 2023 - CSIRO Publishing
Context Understanding migratory species' habitat selection is complicated by variation in
movement strategies. Stable-isotope analysis provides a powerful tool to investigate such …

Wintering seabirds in south-west Greenland, 2017

FR Merkel, KL Johansen, RD Nielsen… - Polar …, 2019 - polarresearch.net
Abstract The South-west Greenland Open Water Area is an internationally important
wintering area for seabirds in the North Atlantic. Nearly two decades after the area was last …