An estimate of the South Georgia diving petrel Pelecanoides georgicus population at Ile de La Possession, Crozet archipelago

• Published in: Antarctic Science
• Main Authors: Barbraud, Christophe, Chaigne, Adrien, Loubon, Maxime, Lamy, Olivier, Le Brouard, Fabrice
• Other Authors: Centre d'Études Biologiques de Chizé - UMR 7372 (CEBC), La Rochelle Université (ULR)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE), Réserve Naturelle Nationale des Terres Australes Françaises
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2020
• Subjects: acoustic playback; burrowing petrel; detection probability; distance sampling; Procellariiformes; [SDE]Environmental Sciences; Burrows; Indian; Antarctic Science
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-03023636; https://doi.org/10.1017/S095410202000019X

International audience Burrow-nesting seabirds constitute an important part of seabird diversity, yet accurate estimates of their abundance are largely lacking, limiting our understanding of their population dynamics and conservation status. We conducted a survey to estimate the number of South Geor...