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

• Published in: Arctic Science
• Main Authors: Anthony J. Gaston, Jennifer F. Provencher, Birgit Braune, H. Grant Gilchrist, Sarah E. Gutowsky, Mark L. Mallory
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; French
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 2024
• Subjects: Environmental sciences; GE1-350; Environmental engineering; TA170-171; Arctic; Canada; Leopold Island; Prince Leopold Island; Cepphus grylle; Fulmarus glacialis; Larus hyperboreus; rissa tridactyla; Uria lomvia; uria
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1139/AS-2023-0056; https://doaj.org/article/8d3bb1cb2dba4ecab6ccd912cbbbe5ba

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), black-legged kittiwakes (Rissa tridactyla) and northern...