Sentences with phrase «of seabird populations»

It undertakes practical conservation projects, surveys and scientific studies, conducts annual monitoring of seabird populations, rescues wildlife in trouble, publishes guides and information on many aspects of the Falkland Islands environment, and involves islanders of all ages in its activities, including running a WATCH group for children.

For the fourth time, Shedd Aquarium, a leader in animal care and conservation, has teamed up with the South African Foundation for the Conservation of Costal Birds, SANCCOB, a non-profit that works to reverse the decline of seabird populations through the rescue, rehabilitation and release of ill, injured, abandoned and oiled seabirds.

Michelle Paleczny, a researcher at the University of British Columbia Fisheries Centre in Vancouver, and colleagues report in the Public Library of Science journal PLOS One that they compiled a global database of seabird population records and then examined the population trends in colonies monitored between 1950 and 2010.

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The resulting data is used to compare relative abundance of seabirds over time — to help us understand populations within the sanctuary and their possible impacts on local ecosystems and as a barometer for other changes in the environment.

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

Although seabirds are adapted for the vicissitudes of life — forage fish numbers have large natural fluctuations — seabirds populations may decline when fishing depresses levels for many years in a row.

She graduated with a bachelor's in biology from Yale University and received a doctorate in ecology and evolutionary biology and a master's in ocean sciences from the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she examined the effects of ocean climate change on seabird populations.

For the first time, the researchers have carried out a ten - year population study of two seabird species: brown skuas living in the Kerguelen Islands (Subantarctic) and south polar skuas living in Adélie Land (Antarctica).

As a bird habitat, Skellig Michael is home to a large population of gannets — 27,000 thousand pairs — as well as the storm petrel, the smallest seabird in Europe.

On that same island in New Zealand, for instance, ecologists observed that, as rat numbers increased in the absence of cats, the population of seabirds whose eggs rats preyed upon declined.

If the approximately 220 million domestic cats in the world all bit the dust, seabird populations would likely fall worldwide, while the populations of non-cat predators that prey on rats would be expected to increase.

Muddy areas, beaches, mangroves, sea grass beds and reefs all provide a home to abundant populations of seabirds, reptiles such as caimans, and a rich marine biodiversity and biomass.

At Anacapa, introduced black rats preyed heavily on seabird eggs and chicks severely depleting populations of Scripps's murrelets.

Monitoring and Restoration Through monitoring and restoration programs, the park and its partners are working to conserve critical nesting habitat and to protect the integrity of island and marine ecosystems that support seabird populations in southern California.

For example, the introduction of DDT, a long - lived pesticide, into the marine environment has severely impacted seabird populations at the islands.

Pursuant to CFR title 36 1.5 (c)- Determination - this restriction action is necessitated for the protection of the islands unique values, ecological systems and protection of breeding populations of marine mammals, endangered species of seabirds, eagles, islands foxes and other unique and rare species of flora and fauna inhabiting the Channel Islands National Park.

This species is a rare seabird with a world population of less than 39,000 birds and a very limited breeding distribution, nesting only on the Channel Islands and on islands off the west coast of Baja California, Mexico.

It provides breeding and feeding grounds for at least twenty - five endangered or threatened species; thirty - six marine mammal species, including blue, gray, and humpback whales, harbor seals, elephant seals, Pacific white - sided dolphins, and one of the southernmost U.S. populations of threatened Steller sea lions; over a quarter - million breeding seabirds; and one of the most significant white shark populations on the planet.

Despite its small size, South Plaza is home to a large number of species, including a large population of sea lions, a healthy population of land iguanas — some of the smallest in the islands, numerous marine iguanas, and cliffs full of nesting seabirds, such as Swallow - tailed Gulls, Red - billed Tropicbirds, Audubon's Shearwaters, Nazca Boobies, and several other species.

After eradicating the exotic species with the use of bait traps, as well as educating the community on island conservation, the island population of seabirds and lizards is finally making a comeback.

Marine biologists have for decades been warning about the state of the world's oceans, and seabird populations are one measure of ocean health.

This monitored population added up to about 19 % of the global count of seabirds and showed a grim decline.

Restoring open ocean plankton populations to known 1980 levels of health would not only annually sequester at minimum 3 ~ 4 billion tons of atmospheric CO2 (or half our global warming surplus today), it would regenerate tens of billions of tons of missing nourishment for fisheries, seabirds and marine mammals.

I rarely post on this site but feel compelled to based on comment # 13 above, specifically the following paragraph: «Restoring open ocean plankton populations to known 1980 levels of health would not only annually sequester at minimum 3 ~ 4 billion tons of atmospheric CO2 (or half our global warming surplus today), it would regenerate tens of billions of tons of missing nourishment for fisheries, seabirds and marine mammals.»

Stephanie Jenouvrier Assistant Scientist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute Specialties: Understanding and predicting the effect of climate change on seabird populations, especially in the Southern Ocean

Seabirds and migratory birds have been found to drop in population and move nesting times in efforts to counter the lack of water.

«Arctic waters include some of the world's most productive ocean ecosystems, providing sustenance to large populations of whales, seals, and walruses and seabirds.

«isolated from population centers, mostly uninhabited» and supporting «endemic, depleted, migratory, endangered and threatened species of fish, giant clams, crabs, marine mammals, sea turtles, seabirds, migratory shorebirds and corals that are rapidly vanishing elsewhere in the world.»

«The relevance of this technology extends beyond terrestrial populations of seabirds or mammals, as rovers could be adapted for use in aquatic or aerial environments.»