Synchronous Fluctuations of Thick-Billed Murre (Uria Lomvia) Colonies in The Eastern Canadian Arctic Suggest Population Regulation in Winter

• Published in: The Auk
• Main Author: Gaston, Anthony J.
• Other Authors: Powell, A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press (OUP) 2003
• Subjects: Animal Science and Zoology; Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Arctic; Nunavut; Coats Island; Leopold Island; Prince Leopold Island; Leopold Islands; thick-billed murre; Uria lomvia; uria
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/auk/120.2.362; http://academic.oup.com/auk/article-pdf/120/2/362/29809796/auk0362.pdf

Abstract Trends in Thick-billed Murre (Uria lomvia) populations at Prince Leopold Island and Coats Island, Nunavut—colonies at opposite ends of the species range in the eastern Arctic—were compared over the period 1985–2000. Population trends were monitored by daily counts of fixed study plots on si...