Journal article
Bernard Tucker Memorial Lecture: The shearwater’s world
- Abstract:
- Shearwaters are among the greatest travellers on earth, living their elusive lives mostly far out at sea, but constrained to breed in dense colonies on islands away from land-based predators. This article describes how recent advances in miniature bio-logging technology and modern analytical techniques have enabled the secrets of the shearwater’s world to become accessible to scientific understanding. From fundamental questions in life-history theory, distribution patterns, and navigation, to applications in the conservation of critically endangered species, aspects of the shearwater’s world (including Manx Puffinus puffinus, Balearic P. mauretanicus and Scopoli’s Calonectris diomedea) are revealed through the lens of one research group combining modern bio-telemetry, experiment, and classical field study.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- BB 2000
- Journal:
- British Birds More from this journal
- Volume:
- January 2019
- Issue:
- 112
- Pages:
- 9–25
- Publication date:
- 2019-01-07
- Acceptance date:
- 2018-10-22
- ISSN:
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0007-0335
- Pubs id:
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pubs:957863
- UUID:
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uuid:6513b34b-a550-471b-97fe-8d7586d23e25
- Local pid:
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pubs:957863
- Source identifiers:
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957863
- Deposit date:
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2019-01-08
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- Copyright holder:
- British Birds
- Copyright date:
- 2019
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