Multiple stressors: modeling the effect of pollution, climate, and predation on viability of a sub-arctic marine bird

• Published in: Ecosphere
• Main Authors: Bårdsen, Bård-Jørgen, Hanssen, Sveinn Are, Bustnes, Jan Ove
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: arctic; climatic vulnerability; computer experimentation; Cormack–Jolly–Seber models; fitness; Grindøya Nature Reserve; Tromsø; Norway; literature review; organochlorine contaminants (OCs); population viability analysis; Somateria mollissima; stress ecology; VDP::Matematikk og Naturvitenskap: 400::Zoologiske og botaniske fag: 480; Arctic; Grindøya; Common Eider
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11250/2506080; https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.2342

Negative effects of long-transported pollutants, such as many persistent organic pollutants (POPs), on seabirds and other top predators have been documented for decades. Yet, the concentrations, and hence, the negative impacts of many POPs have recently declined in the Northern Hemisphere. However,...