The massive number of seabirds (penguins and procellariiformes) and marine mammals
(cetaceans and pinnipeds)–referred to here as top predators–is one of the most iconic …

Human activities have serious impacts on marine apex predators. Inadequate knowledge of
the spatial and trophic ecology of these marine animals ultimately compromises the viability …

Polar marine ecosystems are particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change.
Warming temperatures, freshening seawater, and disruption to sea‐ice formation potentially …

Albatrosses (Diomedeidae) are iconic pelagic seabirds whose life-history traits (longevity,
high trophic position) put them at risk of high levels of exposure to methylmercury (MeHg), a …

Key facets of the foraging ecology of seabirds during the inter-breeding period still remain
poorly understood because of the difficulty of studying them at sea, including during the …

Seabirds, with approximately 1 billion specimens, are the main exchangers of nutrients
between Terrestial and Marine Systems and they have become an emerging interest group …

Abstract Furness, RW, Wade, HM, Robbins, AMC, and Masden, EA 2012. Assessing the
sensitivity of seabird populations to adverse effects from tidal stream turbines and wave …

Top marine predators are effective tools to monitor bioaccumulative contaminants in remote
oceanic environments. Here, we used the wide-ranging wandering albatross Diomedea …

Southern Ocean humpback whales Megaptera novaeangliae are capital breeders, breeding
in the warm tropics/subtropics in the winter and migrating to nutrient-rich Antarctic feeding …

Rapid anthropogenic environmental change is expected to impact a host of ecological
parameters in Southern Ocean ecosystems. Of critical concern are the consequences of …