On the polar edge: the status of the northern gannet (Morus bassanus) in the Barents Sea in 2015-16

• Main Authors: Barrett, Robert T., Strøm, Hallvard, Melnikov, Mikhail
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Norwegian Polar Institute 2017
• Subjects: Colony establishment; breeding range; population change; ocean climate; Arctic; Barents Sea; Kola Peninsula; Norway; Bear Island; Bjørnøya; kola peninsula; North Atlantic; Northern Norway; Polar Research
• Online Access: https://polarresearch.net/index.php/polar/article/view/2673

During its population recovery in the North Atlantic in the early 1900s, the northern gannet (Morus bassanus) established its first colony in Norway at Runde in 1946. Since the 1960s, gannets have established (and later abandoned) several small colonies in the north of the country. These colonies ha...