Multiple stressors: modeling the effect of pollution, climate, and predation on viability of a sub‐arctic marine bird

BJ Bårdsen, SA Hanssen, JO Bustnes - Ecosphere, 2018‏ - Wiley Online Library
Negative effects of long‐transported pollutants, such as many persistent organic pollutants
(POP s), on seabirds and other top predators have been documented for decades. Yet, the …

Migration and wintering of a declining seabird, the thick-billed murre Uria lomvia, on an ocean basin scale: Conservation implications

M Frederiksen, S Descamps, KE Erikstad… - Biological …, 2016‏ - Elsevier
Pelagic seabirds are exposed to an array of potential threats during the non-breeding
period, and effective management of these threats on a large scale requires knowledge of …

Spatial and temporal variations in seabird bycatch: incidental bycatch in the Norwegian coastal gillnet-fishery

KM Bærum, T Anker-Nilssen… - PloS one, 2019‏ - journals.plos.org
The general decline of seabird populations worldwide raises large concerns. Although
multiple factors are interacting to cause the observed trends, increased mortality from …

Overexploitation, recovery, and warming of the Barents Sea ecosystem during 1950–2013

T Pedersen, N Mikkelsen, U Lindstrøm… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2021‏ - frontiersin.org
The Barents Sea (BS) is a high-latitude shelf ecosystem with important fisheries, high and
historically variable harvesting pressure, and ongoing high variability in climatic conditions …

Top‐down control of a marine mesopredator: Increase in native white‐tailed eagles accelerates the extinction of an endangered seabird population

T Anker‐Nilssen, AL Fayet… - Journal of Applied …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Bottom‐up control is an important regulator of marine mesopredators such as seabirds. The
prevalence of top‐down control on these species is however less well understood. In …

Anthropogenic impacts on the demographics of Arctic-breeding birds

S Doyle, A Gray, BJ McMahon - Polar Biology, 2020‏ - Springer
The Arctic supports a diversity of breeding birds. Since the mid-twentieth century,
anthropogenic-source climate change, industrial activity and harvest have impacted this …

[HTML][HTML] What's the catch with lumpsuckers? A North Atlantic study of seabird bycatch in lumpsucker gillnet fisheries

S Christensen-Dalsgaard, T Anker-Nilssen… - Biological …, 2019‏ - Elsevier
Worldwide, incidental bycatch in fisheries is a conservation threat to many seabird species.
Although knowledge on bycatch of seabirds has increased in the last decade, most stems …

Combined bottom‐up and top‐down pressures drive catastrophic population declines of Arctic skuas in Scotland

A Perkins, N Ratcliffe, D Suddaby… - Journal of Animal …, 2018‏ - Wiley Online Library
Understanding drivers of population change is critical for effective species conservation. In
the northeast Atlantic Ocean, recent changes amongst seabird communities are linked to …

Ecosystem Kongsfjorden: new views after more than a decade of research

C Wiencke, H Hop - Polar Biology, 2016‏ - Springer
The Kongsfjorden System in Svalbard is an established reference site for Arctic marine
studies that hosts numerous, international, multidisciplinary collaborative science projects …

Earlier colony arrival but no trend in hatching timing in two congeneric seabirds (Uria spp.) across the North Atlantic

B Merkel, S Descamps, NG Yoccoz… - Biology …, 2019‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
A global analysis recently showed that seabird breeding phenology (as the timing of egg-
laying and hatching) does not, on average, respond to temperature changes or advance …