Sentences with phrase «seabird ecologist»
John is a seabird ecologist for the USGS Alaska Science Center.
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The results show that murres «are really at the edge of what a bird can do,» says University of Missouri, St. Louis, seabird ecologist Robert Ricklefs, an author of the paper.
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.»
It is an excellent example of the value of long - term demographic studies for long - lived species such as albatrosses,» according to Oregon State University's Robert Suryan, a seabird ecologist who was not involved in the study.
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Collaboration between ecologists and climate researchers in Norway has generated fascinating new insight into how seabirds are affected by climate change.
«This paper ties it all together and shows a very clear relationship between the disappearance of sea ice and increasing predation intensity on seabirds,» says Andrew Derocher, a polar bear specialist and Arctic ecologist at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada.
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.