Complete breeding failures in ivory gull following unusual rainy storms in North Greenland

Natural catastrophic events such as heavy rainfall and windstorms may induce drastic decreases in breeding success of animal populations. We report the impacts of summer rainfalls on the reproductive success of ivory gull (Pagophila eburnea) in north-east Greenland. On two occasions, at Amdrup Land...

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Published in:Polar Research
Main Authors: Glenn Yannic, Adrian Aebischer, Brigitte Sabard, Olivier Gilg
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Norwegian Polar Institute 2014
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spelling ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:0edc05a7b9494d92b25432f6814d7bee 2023-05-15T14:55:13+02:00 Complete breeding failures in ivory gull following unusual rainy storms in North Greenland Glenn Yannic Adrian Aebischer Brigitte Sabard Olivier Gilg 2014-03-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.3402/polar.v33.22749 https://doaj.org/article/0edc05a7b9494d92b25432f6814d7bee EN eng Norwegian Polar Institute http://www.polarresearch.net/index.php/polar/article/download/22749/pdf_1 https://doaj.org/toc/0800-0395 https://doaj.org/toc/1751-8369 0800-0395 1751-8369 doi:10.3402/polar.v33.22749 https://doaj.org/article/0edc05a7b9494d92b25432f6814d7bee Polar Research, Vol 33, Iss 0, Pp 1-5 (2014) Pagophila eburnea breeding failure Greenland endangered species summer precipitation climate change Environmental sciences GE1-350 Oceanography GC1-1581 article 2014 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.3402/polar.v33.22749 2022-12-31T13:50:57Z Natural catastrophic events such as heavy rainfall and windstorms may induce drastic decreases in breeding success of animal populations. We report the impacts of summer rainfalls on the reproductive success of ivory gull (Pagophila eburnea) in north-east Greenland. On two occasions, at Amdrup Land in July 2009 and at Station Nord in July 2011, we observed massive ivory gull breeding failures following violent rainfall and windstorms that hit the colonies. In each colony, all of the breeding birds abandoned their eggs or chicks during the storm. Juvenile mortality was close to 100% at Amdrup Land in 2009 and 100% at Station Nord in 2011. Our results show that strong winds associated with heavy rain directly affected the reproductive success of some Arctic bird species. Such extreme weather events may become more common with climate change and represent a new potential factor affecting ivory gull breeding success in the High Arctic. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Climate change East Greenland Greenland ivory gull North Greenland Pagophila eburnea Polar Research Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Arctic Greenland Station Nord ENVELOPE(-16.663,-16.663,81.599,81.599) Amdrup Land ENVELOPE(-16.583,-16.583,80.917,80.917) Polar Research 33 1 22749
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topic Pagophila eburnea
breeding failure
Greenland
endangered species
summer precipitation
climate change
Environmental sciences
GE1-350
Oceanography
GC1-1581
spellingShingle Pagophila eburnea
breeding failure
Greenland
endangered species
summer precipitation
climate change
Environmental sciences
GE1-350
Oceanography
GC1-1581
Glenn Yannic
Adrian Aebischer
Brigitte Sabard
Olivier Gilg
Complete breeding failures in ivory gull following unusual rainy storms in North Greenland
topic_facet Pagophila eburnea
breeding failure
Greenland
endangered species
summer precipitation
climate change
Environmental sciences
GE1-350
Oceanography
GC1-1581
description Natural catastrophic events such as heavy rainfall and windstorms may induce drastic decreases in breeding success of animal populations. We report the impacts of summer rainfalls on the reproductive success of ivory gull (Pagophila eburnea) in north-east Greenland. On two occasions, at Amdrup Land in July 2009 and at Station Nord in July 2011, we observed massive ivory gull breeding failures following violent rainfall and windstorms that hit the colonies. In each colony, all of the breeding birds abandoned their eggs or chicks during the storm. Juvenile mortality was close to 100% at Amdrup Land in 2009 and 100% at Station Nord in 2011. Our results show that strong winds associated with heavy rain directly affected the reproductive success of some Arctic bird species. Such extreme weather events may become more common with climate change and represent a new potential factor affecting ivory gull breeding success in the High Arctic.
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author Glenn Yannic
Adrian Aebischer
Brigitte Sabard
Olivier Gilg
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Adrian Aebischer
Brigitte Sabard
Olivier Gilg
author_sort Glenn Yannic
title Complete breeding failures in ivory gull following unusual rainy storms in North Greenland
title_short Complete breeding failures in ivory gull following unusual rainy storms in North Greenland
title_full Complete breeding failures in ivory gull following unusual rainy storms in North Greenland
title_fullStr Complete breeding failures in ivory gull following unusual rainy storms in North Greenland
title_full_unstemmed Complete breeding failures in ivory gull following unusual rainy storms in North Greenland
title_sort complete breeding failures in ivory gull following unusual rainy storms in north greenland
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