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Kinetic temperature profiles are retrieved from limb-emission radiance measurements of CO2 at 15 and 4.3 um … by the SABER (Sounding of the Atmosphere using Broadband Emission Radiometry) instrument on the TIMED … (Thermosphere Ionosphere Mesosphere Energetics and Dynamics) satellite.
1. Although marine protected areas (MPAs) are often established to protect threatened top-order … predators, there is a paucity of data that can be used to evaluate their efficacy in achieving this … purpose. 2.
Satellite tracking devices were used to examine the at sea movements of southern and … northern giant petrels from Macquarie Island during the Austral summers of 2005–06 … and 2006–07. Time spent at sea for nine northern giant petrels (four breeding adults, five … recently fledged juveniles)…
We compiled and reviewed 248 cases of reported vessel collisions with small cetaceans worldwide and with large … cetaceans in the Southern Hemisphere. Difficulties were encountered with the comparison of highly variable data in … terms of quality (evidence), sources…
The Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels (ACAP) is a newly-constituted international treaty that as yet may be little … known to marine ornithologists around the world. We outline the rationale for the existence of the Agreement, the history of its development…
ABSTRACT: Collisions with vessels are a well-documented conservation problem for some populations of large whales (LW) in the Northern Hemisphere. Less attention has been given to incidents in the Southern Hemisphere or to small cetaceans … (SC) worldwide…
Abstract. We examined sexual dimorphism in 11 morphological characters of the Flesh-footed Shearwater (Puffinus … carneipes) and used these characters in a discriminant function analysis (DFA) to enable sexual classification in the field.
Hundreds of thousands of seabirds are killed each year as a result of interacting with longline … and trawl fishing operations, and the severity of the impact varies regionally. Shy and whitecapped … albatrosses, Thalassarche cauta and Thalassarche steadi respectively…
Wandering Albatrosses (Diomedea exulans) are globally threatened owing to declines in populations, and the breeding population of Macquarie Island is particularly vulnerable as it comprises fewer than 20 breeding … pairs.