Sentences with phrase «seabird populations»

Black rats still prey on seabird populations on San Miguel.

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.

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.

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

The invasive rats decimated native seabird populations by eating eggs and chicks.

«Counting the invisible by sound: New approach to estimate seabird populations.»

• The world's total seabird population eats an estimated 70 million tons of fish and other seafood.

In a bid to buoy flagging seabird populations, park biologists eradicate rats from islands in British Columbia

«Keep one - third for the birds» — that would be a useful guide to managing forage fisheries so that seabird populations remain resilient, the authors say.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

«More predators, dwindling fish stocks and mercury pollution are just some of the variables impacting seabird populations.

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.

That correlation enabled them to extrapolate an estimate for the seabird population for the entire island — 6,000 breeding pairs — something that in the past has been little more than a simple guess.

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.

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

With that relationship established, the team then extrapolated the seabird population size for the entire island — a number that had so far been derived from wild guesses.

Repeatedly, waters around Iceland have warmed for a few decades, then cooled for a few, and seabird populations have slumped, then recovered.

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.

A successful case study is the tiny, subantarctic Campbell Island, where the government removed cattle and sheep before successfully eradicating rats in 2001, leading to the recovery of seabird populations and other endemic species that were on the brink of extinction.

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

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