• Black-legged kittiwakes as messengers of Atlantification in the Arctic 

      Vihtakari, Mikko; Welcker, Jorg; Moe, Børge; Chastel, Olivier; Tartu, Sabrina; Hop, Haakon; Bech, Claus; Descamps, Sébastien; Gabrielsen, Geir W. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2018-01-19)
      Climate warming is rapidly altering marine ecosystems towards a more temperate state on the European side of the Arctic. However, this “Atlantification” has rarely been confirmed, as long-term datasets on Arctic marine organisms are scarce. We present a 19-year time series (1982–2016) of diet samples from black-legged kittiwakes as an indicator of the changes in a high Arctic marine ecosystem ...
    • Fine-scale spatial segregation in a pelagic seabird driven by differential use of tidewater glacier fronts 

      Bertrand, Philip; Bêty, Joël; Yoccoz, Nigel G.; Fortin, Marie-Josée; Strøm, Hallvard; Steen, Harald; Kohler, Jack; Harris, Stephanie M.; Patrick, Samantha C.; Chastel, Olivier; Blévin, P.; Hop, Haakon; Moholdt, Geir; Maton, Joséphine; Descamps, Sébastien (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-11-11)
      In colonially breeding marine predators, individual movements and colonial segregation are influenced by seascape characteristics. Tidewater glacier fronts are important features of the Arctic seascape and are often described as foraging hotspots. Albeit their documented importance for wildlife, little is known about their structuring effect on Arctic predator movements and space use. In this study, ...
    • Multicolony tracking reveals the winter distribution of a pelagic seabird on an ocean basin scale 

      Frederiksen, Morten; Moe, Børge; Daunt, Francis; Phillips, Richard A.; Barrett, Robert; Bogdanova, Maria I; Boulinier, Thierry; Chardine, John W; Chastel, Olivier; Chivers, Lorraine S; Christensen-Dalsgaard, Signe; Clémet-Chastel, Céline; Colhoun, Kendrew; Freeman, Robin; Gaston, Anthony J; González-Solís, Jacob; Goutte, Aurélie; Grémillet, David; Guilford, Tim; Jensen, Gitte H; Krasnov, Yuri V.; Lorentsen, Svein-Håkon; Mallory, Mark L; Newell, Mark; Olsen, Bergur; Shaw, Deryk; Steen, Harald; Strøm, H.; Systad, Geir Helge; Thórarinsson, Thorkell L; Anker-Nilssen, Tycho (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2011-11-26)
      Aim An understanding of the non-breeding distribution and ecology of migratory species is necessary for successful conservation. Many seabirds spend the nonbreeding season far from land, and information on their distribution during this time is very limited. The black-legged kittiwake, Rissa tridactyla, is a widespread and numerous seabird in the North Atlantic and Pacific, but breeding ...
    • Year-round distribution of Northeast Atlantic seabird populations: applications for population management and marine spatial planning 

      Fauchald, Per; Amélineau, Françoise; Bråthen, Vegard Sandøy; Descamps, Sebastien; Ekker, Morten; Helgason, Halfdan Helgi; Johansen, Malin; Merkel, Benjamin; Moe, Børge; Åström, Jens; Bjørnstad, Oskar; Chastel, Olivier; Christensen-Dalsgaard, Signe; Danielsen, Jóhannis; Daunt, Francis; Dehnhard, Nina; Erikstad, Kjell E.; Ezhov, Alexey; Gavrilo, Maria; Hallgrimsson, Gunnar Thor; Hansen, Erpur Snær; Harris, Mike; Helberg, Morten; Jónsson, Jón Einar; Kolbeinsson, Yann; Krasnov, Yuri V.; Langset, Magdalene; Lorentsen, Svein-Håkon; Lorentzen, Erlend; Newell, Mark; Olsen, Bergur; Reiertsen, Tone Kristin; Systad, Geir Helge Rødli; Thompson, Paul; Thórarinsson, Thorkell Lindberg; Wanless, Sarah; Wojczulanis-Jakubas, Katarzyna; Strøm, Hallvard (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Tracking data of marine predators are increasingly used in marine spatial management. We developed a spatial data set with estimates of the monthly distribution of 6 pelagic seabird species breeding in the Northeast Atlantic. The data set was based on year-round global location sensor (GLS) tracking data of 2356 adult seabirds from 2006−2019 from a network of seabird colonies, data describing the ...