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dc.contributor.authorBarrett, Robert T.
dc.contributor.authorStrøm, H.
dc.contributor.authorMelnikov, Mikhail
dc.date.accessioned2018-02-15T09:20:02Z
dc.date.available2018-02-15T09:20:02Z
dc.date.issued2017-11-27
dc.description.abstractDuring its population recovery in the North Atlantic in the early 1900s, the northern gannet (Morus bassanus) established its first colony in Norway at Runde in 1946. Since the 1960s, gannets have established (and later abandoned) several small colonies in the north of the country. These colonies have been regularly monitored, and in 2015–16 ca. 3300 apparently occupied nests (AON) were counted in seven colonies in northern Norway. Two colonies that existed in 2008 had been abandoned and four new ones established. Two of the latter were again abandoned before 2015. In 1995, one pair established a colony at Kharlov on the Kola Peninsula, Russia, where numbers increased to 200–250 AON in 2016. The newest and world’s northernmost colony was established at Bjørnøya (Bear Island) in 2011, extending the species’ breeding range well into the Arctic. These recent establishments are thought to be associated with a warming of the Barents Sea and the northward spread of common prey of the gannet such as herring and mackerel. This paper documents recent establishments, growths and abandonments of colonies at the gannet’s northern limit of distribution.en_US
dc.descriptionSource at <a href=http://doi.org/10.1080/17518369.2017.1390384>http://doi.org/10.1080/17518369.2017.1390384</a>en_US
dc.identifier.citationBarrett, R., Strøm, H., Melnikov, M. On the polar edge: the status of the northern gannet (Morus bassanus) in the Barents Sea in 2015-2016.. Polar Research. 2017;36en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 1518710
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/17518369.2017.1390384
dc.identifier.issn0800-0395
dc.identifier.issn1751-8369
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/12179
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherTaylor & Francis Openen_US
dc.relation.journalPolar Research
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.subjectVDP::Matematikk og Naturvitenskap: 400::Zoologiske og botaniske fag: 480en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Mathematics and natural science: 400::Zoology and botany: 480en_US
dc.titleOn the polar edge: the status of the northern gannet (Morus bassanus) in the Barents Sea in 2015-2016.en_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typeTidsskriftartikkelen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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