Sentences with phrase «on seabird populations»

discover the environmental influence on seabird populations across the Southern Ocean and in Commonwealth Bay

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

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.

«What we're seeing is probably a very transient effect on these seabird populations,» he says.

Not exact matches

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.

The team also gathered data on seabird and fish populations that feed in the sea and then come onto land — like ocean - going salmon that move up rivers to defecate, spawn, and die.

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.

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.

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.

Seabirds number in the thousands as they congregate to feed on the abundant fish population.

The feral cats introduced to the island have had a devastating effect on the native seabird population, with an estimated 60,000 seabird deaths per year.

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

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.

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.

In 2015 Schwindt went on a research trip to the Shetland Islands, where she talked to a birdwatcher who monitored the local seabird population for oil contamination.

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.»