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Global climate change scenarios predict an increase in air and ocean temperatures, storm intensity, storm surge and inundation of low-lying coastal areas and small islands. Projections of changing oceanographic conditions and inundation are at levels that could affect seabird populations including those of the black-footed albatross (Phoebastria nigripes; BFAL). The resilience of BFAL populations in the face of more frequent extreme weather events and nesting habitat loss is therefore a critical issue for wildlife managers. Colony establishment behavior and dispersal biology are poorly understood for BFAL. Despite this uncertainty, management decisions to safeguard BFAL breeding populations in the face of climate...
Approximately one-third of the global population of black-footed albatrosses (Phoebastria nigripes) nest at Midway Atoll in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. As part of an effort to monitor albatross at this globally important site, USFWS personnel and volunteers conduct an annual, spatially-explicit, atoll-wide albatross census during the peak nesting when albatrosses are attending an egg (December-January). During the 2011-2012 breeding season (hatch year 2012) the census was conducted December 16, 2011–January 8, 2012. Albatross nest counts during the census were divided into 61 historically established, spatially-explicit sectors of unequal area. Within a sector, surveyors walked parallel transects approximately...
Approximately one-third of the global population of black-footed albatrosses (Phoebastria nigripes) nest at Midway Atoll in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. As part of an effort to monitor albatross at this globally important site, USFWS personnel and volunteers conduct an annual, spatially-explicit, atoll-wide albatross census during peak nesting when albatrosses are attending an egg (December-January). During the 2011-2012 breeding season (hatch year 2012) the census was conducted December 16, 2011–January 8, 2012. Albatross nest counts during the census were divided into 61 historically established, spatially-explicit sectors of unequal area. Within a sector, surveyors walked parallel transects approximately...
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