Stable isotope record from a resident New Zealand seabird community suggests changes in distribution but not trophic position since 1878

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Stable isotope record from a resident New Zealand seabird community suggests changes in distribution but not trophic position since 1878

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Globally, human population growth, its associated pollution and the vast scale of industrialised fisheries are having negative impacts on oceanic food webs, affecting top predators such as seabirds. We used stable isotope (δ15N and δ13C) analyses of feathers to investigate the contemporary structure and long-term changes in a near-shore community of 5 seabird species in northern Aotearoa New Zealand. Feathers were collected from museum specimens or live individuals (collected between 1878 and...

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2021-11-11

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Rayner, MJ / Dunphy, BJ / Lukies, K / Adams, N / Berg, M / Kozmian-Ledward, L / Pinkerton, MH / Bury, SJ

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https://hdl.handle.net/2292/58001

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Science & Technology / Life Sciences & Biomedicine / Physical Sciences / Ecology / Marine & Freshwater Biology / Oceanography / Environmental Sciences & Ecology / Carbon and nitrogen isotope / Feathers / Euphausiids / Salps / Forage fish / Museum collections / Hauraki Gulf / PETREL PTERODROMA-COOKII / PHALACROCORAX-VARIUS / SPATIAL VARIATION / FORAGING ECOLOGY / EUDYPTULA-MINOR / BREEDING-SEASON / FEEDING ECOLOGY / FOOD / DELTA-N-15 / DELTA-C-13 / 0405 Oceanography / 0602 Ecology / 0608 Zoology

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