Monitoring Canadian Arctic seabirds at the Prince Leopold Island Field Station, 1975–2023

• Published in: Arctic Science
• Main Authors: Gaston, Anthony J., Provencher, Jennifer F., Braune, Birgit M., Gilchrist, H. Grant, Gutowsky, Sarah E., Mallory, Mark L.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 2024
• Subjects: Arctic; Canada; Leopold Island; Prince Leopold Island; Cepphus grylle; Fulmarus glacialis; Larus hyperboreus; rissa tridactyla; Uria lomvia; uria
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/as-2023-0056; https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/full-xml/10.1139/as-2023-0056; https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/as-2023-0056

The research station at Prince Leopold Island (PLI), initiated in 1975, was the first seabird monitoring site created in the Canadian Arctic. The island supports 150 000 breeding pairs of seabirds, principally thick-billed murres ( Uria lomvia Linnaeus 1758), black-legged kittiwakes ( Rissa tridacty...