Re-evaluation of historical Rockhopper Penguin population data in the Falkland Islands

Waterbirds

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 169-175

  Pütz, Klemens ^a,d   Clausen, Andrea P ^b   Huin, Nic ^b   Croxall, John P ^c  

^a Antarctic Research Trust   (Falkland Islands (Malvinas))

^b FALKLANDS CONSERVATION   (Falkland Islands (Malvinas))

^c BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^d Antarctic Research Trust   (Germany)

Author keywords

Breeding pair numbers; Census; Eudyptes chrysocome; Falkland Islands; Historical data; Population trend; Rockhopper Penguins

Indexed keywords

HISTORICAL ECOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION SIZE; SEABIRD;

FALKLAND ISLANDS (MALVINAS);

AVES; EUDYPTES CHRYSOCOME; SPHENISCIDAE;

EID: 18344399244     PISSN: 07386028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1675/1524-4695(2003)026[0169:rohrpp]2.0.co;2     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. Bennett, A. G. 1933. The penguin population of the Falkland Islands in 1932/33. Government Press, Falkland Islands. 4 pp. [including original data file No. CS232/32 in the Falkland Islands Government Archives].
2. Bingham, M. 1998. The distribution, abundance and population trends of gentoo, rockhopper and king penguins in the Falkland Islands. Oryx 32: 223-232.
3. Birdlife International. 2000. The Threatened Birds of the World. Lynx-Edicions, Barcelona.
4. Clausen, A. P. 2001. Falkland Island Penguin census 2000/01. Falklands Conservation Report, Stanley, Falkland Islands.
5. Cooper, W. 1992. Rockhopper penguins at the Auckland Islands. Notornis 39: 66-67.
6. Cooper, J., A. Wolfaardt and R. J. M. Crawford. 1997. Trends in size and success of breeding colonies of Macaroni and Rockhopper Penguins at Marion Island, 1979/80-1995/96. CCAMLR Science 4: 125-147.
7. Croxall, J. P. 1992. Southern Ocean environmental changes: effects on seabird, seal and whale population's. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B 338: 218-328.
8. Croxall J. P. and G. S. Lishman. 1987. The Food and feeding ecology of penguins. Pages 101-133 in Seabirds: Feeding Ecology and Role in Marine Ecosystem (J. P. Croxall, Ed.), Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
9. Croxall J. P. and A. G. Wood. 2002. The importance of the Patagonian Shelf to top predator species breeding at South Georgia. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, 12: 119-126.
10. Croxall J. P., S. J. McInnes and P. A. Prince. 1984.The status and conservation of seabirds at the Falkland Islands. In Status and Conservation of the World's seabirds (J. P. Croxall, P. G. H. Evans and R. W. Schreiber, Eds.). ICBP, Cambridge.
11. Cunningham, D. M. and P. J. Moors. 1994. The decline of Rockhopper Penguins Eudyptes chrysocome at Campbell Island, Southern Ocean and the influence of rising sea temperatures. Emu 94: 27-36.
12. Ellis, S., J. P. Croxall and J. Cooper. 1998. Penguin Conservation Assessment and Management Plan. IUCN/ SSC Conservation Breeding Specialist Group.
13. Guinard, E., H. Weimerskirch and P. Jouventin. 1998. Population changes of the Northern Rockhopper Penguin on Amsterdam and Saint Paul Islands. Colonial Waterbirds 21: 222-228.
14. Huin, N. 2001. Census of Black-browed Albatross population in the Falkland Islands in 2000/01. Falklands Conservation Report, Stanley, Falkland Islands.
15. Jouventin, P. and H. Weimerskirch. 1991. Changes in the population size and demography of southern seabirds: management implications. Pages 297-314 in, Bird population studies: relevance to conservation and management (C. M. Perrins J. D. Lebreton and C. J. Hirons, Eds.). Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.
16. Keymer, I. F., H. M. Malcolm, A. Hunt and D. T. Horsley. 2001. Health evaluation of penguins (Sphenisciformes) following mortality in the Falklands (South Atlantic). Diseases of Aquatic Organisms 45: 159-169.
17. Lewis Smith, R. I. and P. A. Prince. 1985. The natural history of Beauchêne Island, Falkland Islands. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 24: 233-283.
18. Moors, P. J. 1986. Decline in numbers of Rockhopper Penguins at Campbell Island. Polar Record 23: 69-73.
19. Pistorius, P. A., M. N. Bester and S. P. Kirkman. 1999. Dynamic age-distributions in a declining population of southern elephant seals. Antarctic Science 11: 445-450.
20. Schiavini, A. C. M. 2000. Staten Island, Tierra del Fuego: The largest breeding ground for Southern Rockhopper Penguins? Waterbirds 23: 286-291.
21. Thompson, K. and P. Rothery. 1995. A census of the Black-browed Albatross Diomedea melanophris population on Steeple Jason Island, Falkland Islands. Biological Conservation 56: 39-48.
22. Woehler, E. J. and J. P. Croxall. 1997. The status and trends of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic seabird. Marine Ornithology 25: 43-66.
23. Woehler E. J., J. Cooper, J. P. Croxall, W. R. Fraser, G. L. Kooyman, G. D. Miller, D. C. Nel, D. L. Patterson, H. U. Peter, K. Salwick K, W. Z. Trivelpiece and H. Weimerskirch. 2001. A statistical assessment of the status and trends of Antarctic and Subantarctic Seabirds. SCAR/NSF/CCAMLR, 48 pp.