The Shy albatross (Thalassarche cauta): Population trends, environmental and anthropogenic drivers, and the future for management and conservation ...

• Main Author: Alderman, RL
• Format: Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: University Of Tasmania 2023
• Subjects: Inaccessible Islands
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.25959/23206028; https://figshare.utas.edu.au/articles/thesis/The_Shy_albatross_Thalassarche_cauta_Population_trends_environmental_and_anthropogenic_drivers_and_the_future_for_management_and_conservation/23206028

Despite recent global conservation efforts, albatrosses remain amongst the most threatened groups of birds. Worldwide, they are affected on land and at sea by a range of processes, particularly fisheries bycatch. In spite of their high conservation profile, albatrosses present challenges for monitoring and recovery actions because they are long-lived, spend most of their life at sea and return to breed at colonies that are often located on remote, relatively inaccessible islands. This thesis offers a comprehensive assessment of the population status and trends of Australia's endemic shy albatross, Thalassarche cauta, which breeds exclusively on three Tasmanian offshore islands. The main anthropogenic, physical and environmental processes that influence each of the three breeding populations are examined and the processes that shape key demographic parameters and trends are assessed in four analytical chapters which follow the introductory chapter. Chapter two compiles and analyses available population and ...