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Industrial contaminants spread by seabirds in High Arctic, new Canadian study shows

...s much as 60 times that of areas not influenced by seabird populations," says team member John Smol, a biology professor at Queen's University and Canada Research Chair in Environmental Change. The multidisciplinary study, led by Dr. Jules Blais, professor of environmental toxicology at the University of Ot...

Oil spills and climate change double the mortality rate of British seabirds

...n of Skomer Island, the impact of oil pollution on seabird mortality rates at a particular colony was difficult to quantify as oil spills usually occur in wintering areas where birds from many different colonies may be distributed over a wide area. However, our long-term monitoring of individually marked bir...

Overfishing may drive endangered seabird to rely upon lower quality food

...g may have driven marbled murrelets, an endangered seabird found along the Pacific coast, to increasingly rel... consider locations that improve the production of seabird prey in the ongoing process to determine where to place marine protected areas along the California ...

Pacific Islands paradise protected

... 520 species of fish, some new to science. Nesting seabird populations, as well as healthy fish populations and the presence of sea turtles and other species, demonstrated the pristine nature of the area and its importance as a migration route. "It's a remarkable atoll marine wilderness area, the most magni...

Study investigates 'divorce' among Galapagos seabirds

...arriage together for the Nazca booby, a long-lived seabird found in the Galapagos Islands off the coast of Ecuador. Many Nazca booby females switch mates after successfully raising a chick, according to a Wake Forest University study scheduled for publication in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society ...

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