Oceanic respite for wandering albatrosses
Birds taking time off from breeding head for their favourite long-haul destinations. What oceanic seabirds do outside their breeding periods is something of a mystery, although altogether these "sabbaticals' add up to more than half of their lifetime and are probably a key feature of their...
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ftoceanrep:oai:oceanrep.geomar.de:1920 2023-05-15T16:00:55+02:00 Oceanic respite for wandering albatrosses Weimerskirch, Henri Wilson, Rory P. 2000 text https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/1920/ https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/1920/1/Meimerskirch.pdf https://doi.org/10.1038/35023068 en eng Nature Publishing Group https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/1920/1/Meimerskirch.pdf Weimerskirch, H. and Wilson, R. P. (2000) Oceanic respite for wandering albatrosses. Nature, 406 . pp. 955-956. DOI 10.1038/35023068 <https://doi.org/10.1038/35023068>. doi:10.1038/35023068 info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess Article PeerReviewed 2000 ftoceanrep https://doi.org/10.1038/35023068 2023-04-07T14:44:51Z Birds taking time off from breeding head for their favourite long-haul destinations. What oceanic seabirds do outside their breeding periods is something of a mystery, although altogether these "sabbaticals' add up to more than half of their lifetime and are probably a key feature of their life history. Here we use geolocation systems based on light-intensity measurements to show that during these periods wandering albatrosses (Diomedea exulans) leave the foraging grounds that they frequent while breeding for specific, individual oceanic sectors and spend the rest of the year there — each bird probably returns to the same area throughout its life. This discovery of individual home-range preferences outside the breeding season has important implications for the conservation of albatrosses threatened by the development of longline fisheries. Article in Journal/Newspaper Diomedea exulans OceanRep (GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre für Ocean Research Kiel) Nature 406 6799 955 956 |
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Birds taking time off from breeding head for their favourite long-haul destinations. What oceanic seabirds do outside their breeding periods is something of a mystery, although altogether these "sabbaticals' add up to more than half of their lifetime and are probably a key feature of their life history. Here we use geolocation systems based on light-intensity measurements to show that during these periods wandering albatrosses (Diomedea exulans) leave the foraging grounds that they frequent while breeding for specific, individual oceanic sectors and spend the rest of the year there — each bird probably returns to the same area throughout its life. This discovery of individual home-range preferences outside the breeding season has important implications for the conservation of albatrosses threatened by the development of longline fisheries. |
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https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/1920/1/Meimerskirch.pdf Weimerskirch, H. and Wilson, R. P. (2000) Oceanic respite for wandering albatrosses. Nature, 406 . pp. 955-956. DOI 10.1038/35023068 <https://doi.org/10.1038/35023068>. doi:10.1038/35023068 |
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