Contrasting Population Trends at Two Razorbill Colonies in Atlantic Canada: Additive Effects of Fox Predation and Hunting Mortality?

• Main Authors: Lavers, JL, Jones, IL, Robertson, GJ, Diamond, AW
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Resilience Alliance Publications 2009
• Subjects: Biological Sciences; Ecology; Ecology not elsewhere classified; Canada; Gannet Islands; Alca torda; Alopex lagopus; Razorbill; Seal Island; uria
• Online Access: http://www.ace-eco.org/articles/322.html; http://ecite.utas.edu.au/77908

We developed a stochastic, stage-based, matrix-projection population model to assesspopulation viability and estimate the impact of mortality caused by hunting, illegal and incidental to themurre (Uria sp.) hunt, and fox (Alopex lagopus) predation on Razorbill (Alca torda) populations breedingon the...