Sentences with phrase «how seabirds»

«How seabirds are affected by climate change.»

Collaboration between ecologists and climate researchers in Norway has generated fascinating new insight into how seabirds are affected by climate change.

«By understanding how seabirds can cope with high metabolic demands with no effect on longevity, we may learn how old humans can reduce their chance of being impacted by metabolic diseases.»

At the interactive, hands - on training session you will learn how seabirds, and particularly beached birds, fit into marine conservation, be introduced to bird identification using Beached Birds: A COASST Field Guide, have the opportunity to try out your ID skills, and learn everything you need to know about how to conduct a COASST survey.

Not exact matches

Additional presentations will range from the navigational challenges seabirds confront within the «hook» of Cape Cod Bay and how to identify Massachusetts species to habitat issues on the continental shelf and across the Gulf of Maine.

Research in families of wild seabirds reveals for the first time how parasite infection in some can have a serious effect on how well their relatives do.

To see how bird family members interact with each other in stressful situations, researchers from Vetmeduni Vienna and the University of Gdansk, Poland, studied parent - offspring interactions in a long - lived seabird, the little auk (Alle alle).

The study provides valuable confirmation of the idea that ancient penguins swapped flight for underwater prowess, known as the tradeoff hypothesis, says Chris Thaxter, a seabird ecologist at the British Trust for Ornithology in Thetford, U.K. «This is a major step forward... in understanding how the tradeoff hypothesis works.»

A study of the long - lived seabird, the European shag, published in the journal Functional Ecology shows that parental age may affect how long offspring live.

Roman and his colleagues modeled how that conveyer belt of nutrients has slowed due to the huge declines in whale, seabird and fish populations.

One high - profile discovery at Palmyra is how rain washes nitrogen - rich droppings from the island's abundant seabird colonies into the sea, where the nutrients create algal blooms.

The study was part of a larger project to understand how juvenile seabirds learn.

«Estimating exactly how many birds nest on a cliff is not very precise» admits Oppel, but the sound recordings provide a very valuable index of how large seabird colonies are.

Although researchers have known for decades that many seabirds are in trouble, it is surprisingly hard to put a number on how fast populations decline.

How do certain microscopic algae — that is, types of phytoplankton — cause harm to fish, shellfish, marine mammals, seabirds, and people?

All of the pinnipeds and nesting seabirds are protected by various laws and we will coach you on how to view them without disturbing them.

With the water gently rocking the yachts, the clacking of the rigging on masts, the jumping of fish only feet away, the call of the seabirds and the conversation with the occasional sailer departing or arriving, makes it a wonderful experience to paint by the waters edge no matter how far inland.

The series launched in recent days with an introductory overview, a piece on how ospreys have recovered from the DDT era but face new ills, and a report on troubles with puffins and other northern seabirds facing disrupted food webs and a changing climate.

From the seas of north Wales, where he kayaks among feeding frenzies of dolphins and seabirds, to the forests of Eastern Europe, where lynx stalk and packs of wolves roam, George Monbiot shows how rewilding could repair the living planet, creating ecosystems in post-industrial nations as profuse and captivating as any around the world.