Formation of a bird community on a new island

• Main Authors: Surtsey Iceland, Aevar Petersen
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Fulmar; Surtsey; Watchers; Black guillemot; Cepphus grylle; Fulmarus glacialis; Glaucous Gull; Iceland; Larus hyperboreus; Lesser black-backed gull
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.582.2872; http://www.surtsey.is/SRS_publ/2009-XII/low_res/2009-XII_133-148_Formation--lw.pdf

iNTRoDUCTioN Surtsey island had just risen above the ocean surface when the first birds made their landfall. on 1st December 1963 only two weeks after the eruption began gulls were seen touching down on the island in between eruption bursts (Fridriks-son 1964, Gudmundsson 1966). A number of bird spe...