Marine defaunation: animal loss in the global ocean

DJ McCauley, ML Pinsky, SR Palumbi, JA Estes… - Science, 2015 - science.org
BACKGROUND Comparing patterns of terrestrial and marine defaunation helps to place
human impacts on marine fauna in context and to navigate toward recovery. Defaunation …

Potential impacts of wave‐powered marine renewable energy installations on marine birds

WJ Grecian, R Inger, MJ Attrill, S Bearhop, BJ Godley… - Ibis, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
One potential approach to combat the impacts of climate change is the expansion of
renewable energy installations, leading to an increase in the number of wave‐powered …

Causes and consequences of individual variability and specialization in foraging and migration strategies of seabirds

RA Phillips, S Lewis, J González-Solís… - Marine Ecology Progress …, 2017 - int-res.com
Technological advances in recent years have seen an explosion of tracking and stable
isotope studies of seabirds, often involving repeated measures from the same individuals …

How many seabirds do we need to track to define home‐range area?

LM Soanes, JPY Arnould, SG Dodd… - Journal of Applied …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
In recent years, marine predator and seabird tracking studies have become ever more
popular. However, they are often conducted without first considering how many individuals …

Sexually distinct foraging strategies in an omnivorous seabird

KCJ Camphuysen, J Shamoun-Baranes, EE Van Loon… - Marine Biology, 2015 - Springer
Intra-specific differences in foraging behaviour can have fitness consequences, especially
during breeding. We combined GPS tracking data from 34 lesser black-backed gulls (Larus …

Sexual segregation in a wide-ranging marine predator is a consequence of habitat selection

IR Cleasby, ED Wakefield, TW Bodey… - Marine Ecology …, 2015 - int-res.com
Sexual segregation, common in many species, is usually attributed to intra-specific
competition or habitat choice. However, few studies have simultaneously quantified sex …

Sex-specific behavior by a monomorphic seabird represents risk partitioning

KH Elliott, AJ Gaston, D Crump - Behavioral Ecology, 2010 - academic.oup.com
The presence of sex-stereotyped behavior in monomorphic animals, where there are no
sexual differences in form to account for sexual differences in function, is often attributed to …

Assessing the sensitivity of seabird populations to adverse effects from tidal stream turbines and wave energy devices

RW Furness, HM Wade, AMC Robbins… - ICES Journal of …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Furness, RW, Wade, HM, Robbins, AMC, and Masden, EA 2012. Assessing the
sensitivity of seabird populations to adverse effects from tidal stream turbines and wave …

Foraging plasticity in a pelagic seabird species along a marine productivity gradient

VH Paiva, P Geraldes, I Ramírez, A Meirinho… - Marine Ecology …, 2010 - int-res.com
The foraging plasticity in a pelagic seabird species, Cory's shearwater Calonectris
diomedea, was compared during incubation and chick-rearing among 7 different breeding …

Influence of wing loading on the trade-off between pursuit-diving and flight in common guillemots and razorbills

CB Thaxter, S Wanless, F Daunt… - Journal of …, 2010 - journals.biologists.com
Species of bird that use their wings for underwater propulsion are thought to face
evolutionary trade-offs between flight and diving, leading to the prediction that species with …