Reproductive Performance, Foraging Effort, and Diet of an Apex Predator, the Common Murre, at one of the Largest Nesting Colonies in the California Current System

• Main Author: Schneider, Stephanie Rianne
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: SJSU ScholarWorks 2018
• Subjects: apex predator; California Current System; common murre; diet; foraging effort; reproduction; Ecology; Wildlife conservation; Wildlife management; Castle Rock; Common Murre; Uria aalge; uria
• Online Access: https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/etd_theses/4982; https://doi.org/10.31979/etd.7p63-75jz; https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/context/etd_theses/article/8529/viewcontent/Schneide.PDF

Common Murre (Uria aalge) are the most abundant avian apex predator nesting in the California Current System (CCS) and nesting is the most energetically demanding phase of their lifecycle. The preyscape within flight distance of their nesting colony determines whether murres produce young, how hard...