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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ftjpolarres:oai:journals.openacademia.net:article/3203 2024-06-23T07:50:30+00:00 Complete breeding failures in ivory gull following unusual rainy storms in North Greenland Yannic, Glenn Aebischer, Adrian Sabard, Brigitte Gilg, Olivier 2014-03-13 application/pdf text/html application/epub+zip text/plain https://polarresearch.net/index.php/polar/article/view/3203 https://doi.org/10.3402/polar.v33.22749 eng eng Norwegian Polar Institute https://polarresearch.net/index.php/polar/article/view/3203/pdf_1 https://polarresearch.net/index.php/polar/article/view/3203/html https://polarresearch.net/index.php/polar/article/view/3203/8049 https://polarresearch.net/index.php/polar/article/view/3203/8050 https://polarresearch.net/index.php/polar/article/view/3203 doi:10.3402/polar.v33.22749 Polar Research; Vol 33 (2014) 1751-8369 Pagophila eburnea breeding failure Greenland endangered species summer precipitation climate change info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2014 ftjpolarres https://doi.org/10.3402/polar.v33.22749 2024-06-13T23:33:00Z 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.Keywords: Pagophila eburnea; breeding failure; Greenland; endangered species; summer precipitation; climate change.(Published: 13 March 2014)Citation: Polar Research 2014, 33, 22749, http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/polar.v33.22749 Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Climate change East Greenland Greenland ivory gull North Greenland Pagophila eburnea Polar Research Polar Research 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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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.Keywords: Pagophila eburnea; breeding failure; Greenland; endangered species; summer precipitation; climate change.(Published: 13 March 2014)Citation: Polar Research 2014, 33, 22749, http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/polar.v33.22749 |
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Complete breeding failures in ivory gull following unusual rainy storms in North Greenland |
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Complete breeding failures in ivory gull following unusual rainy storms in North Greenland |
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Complete breeding failures in ivory gull following unusual rainy storms in North Greenland |
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Complete breeding failures in ivory gull following unusual rainy storms in North Greenland |
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Complete breeding failures in ivory gull following unusual rainy storms in North Greenland |
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complete breeding failures in ivory gull following unusual rainy storms in north greenland |
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