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Seabird assemblages observed during the BROKE-West survey of the Antarctic coastline (30°E-80°E), January - March 2006
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posted on 2023-05-17, 02:38 authored by Woehler, EJ, Ben Raymond, Boyle, A, Stafford, ASeabird surveys in January � March 2006 of a poorly known area of the Southern Ocean adjacent to the East Antarctic coast identiï¬ed six seabird communities, several of which were comparable to seabird communities identiï¬ed both in adjacent sectors of the Antarctic, and elsewhere in the Southern Ocean. These results support previous proposals that the Southern Ocean seabird community is characterised by an ice-associated assemblage and an open-water assemblage, with the species composition of the assemblages reflecting local (Antarctic-resident) breeding species, and the migratory routes and feeding areas of distant-breeding taxa, respectively. Physical environmental covariates such as sea-ice cover, distance to continental shelf and time of year influenced the distribution and abundance of seabirds observed, but the roles of these factors in the observed spatial and temporal patterns in seabird assemblages was confounded by the duration of the survey. Occurrence of a number of seabird taxa exhibited signiï¬cant correlations with krill densities at one or two spatial scales, but only three taxa (Arctic tern, snow petrel and dark shearwaters, i.e. sooty and short-tailed shearwaters) showed signiï¬cant correlations at a range of spatial scales. Dark shearwater abundances showed correlations with krill densities across the range of spatial scales examined.
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Publication title
Deep-Sea Research. Part 2: Topical Studies in OceanographyVolume
57Issue
9-10Pagination
982-991ISSN
0967-0645Department/School
School of Natural SciencesPublisher
Pergamon-Elsevier Science LtdPlace of publication
The Boulevard, Langford Lane, Kidlington, Oxford,Rights statement
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