| seabird eggs as bioindicators of chemical contamination in chile. | seabird eggs were used as bioindicators of chemical contamination in chile. brown-hooded gull (larus maculipennis), kelp gull (larus dominicanus), trudeau's tern (sterna trudeaui), neotropic cormorant (phalacrocorax brasilianus), and pink-footed shearwater (puffinus creatopus) eggs were sampled at different breeding sites during the 1990s. mercury and organochlorines (pcbs, ddt, hcb, hch, and pcp) were quantified to reveal the interspecific differences, spatial and temporal trends in contaminati ... | 2003 | 12860109 |
| modeling nonresident seabird foraging distributions to inform ocean zoning in central california. | seabird aggregations at sea have been shown to be associated with concentrations of prey. previous research identified central california as a highly used foraging area for seabirds, with locally breeding seabirds foraging close to their colonies on southeast farallon island. herein, we focus on nonresident (i.e. non-locally breeding) seabird species off of central california. we hypothesized that high-use foraging areas for nonresident seabirds would be influenced by oceanographic and bathymetr ... | 2017 | 28122001 |
| collision and displacement vulnerability to offshore wind energy infrastructure among marine birds of the pacific outer continental shelf. | marine birds are vulnerable to collision with and displacement by offshore wind energy infrastructure (owei). here we present the first assessment of marine bird vulnerability to potential owei in the california current system portion of the u.s. pacific outer continental shelf (pocs). using population size, demography, life history, flight heights, and avoidance behavior for 62 seabird and 19 marine water bird species that occur in the pocs, we present and apply equations to calculate populatio ... | 2018 | 30195148 |