An estimate of population sizes of burrowing seabirds at the Diego Ramirez archipelago, Chile, using distance sampling and burrow-scoping

Polar Biology

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 229-238

  Lawton, Kieran ^a   Robertson, Graham ^a   Kirkwood, Roger ^b   Valencia, José ^c   Schlatter, Roberto ^d   Smith, David ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC DIVISION   (Australia)

^b Phillip Island Nature Park   (Australia)

^c Depto Cie Inst Antartico Chileno   (Chile)

^d UNIVERSIDAD AUSTRAL DE CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREEDING SITE; BURROWING ORGANISM; POPULATION SIZE; SEABIRD;

CHILE; SOUTH AMERICA;

CICONIIFORMES; HALOBAENA CAERULEA; PELECANOIDES URINATRIX; PUFFINUS GRISEUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33644827464     PISSN: 07224060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00300-005-0043-z     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. Ambagis J (2004) A comparison of census and monitoring techniques for Leach's Storm Petrel. Waterbirds 27(2):211-215
2. Anderson DR, Southwell C (1995) Estimates of macropod density from line transect surveys relative to analyst expertise. J Wildl Manage 59:852-857
3. Baker GB, Gales R, Hamilton S, Wilkinson V (2002) Albatrosses and petrels in Australia: a review of their conservation and management. Emu 102(1):71-97
4. Berrow SD, Croxall JP, Grant SD (2000) Status of white-chinned petrels Procellaria aequinoctialis Linnaeus 1758, at Bird Island, South Georgia. Antarctic Science 12(4):399-405
5. Brandt CA, Parrish J, Hodges CN (1995) Predictive approaches to habitat quantification: dark-rumped petrels in Haleakala, Maui. Auk 112:571-579
6. Brooke ML (2004) The food consumption of the world's seabirds. Proc R Soc Lond B (Suppl) 271:S246-S248
7. Brothers NP (1984) Breeding, distribution and status of burrow nesting petrels at Macquarie Is. Aust Wildl Res 11:113-131
8. Buckland ST, Anderson DR, Burnham KP, Laake JL (1993) Distance sampling: estimating the abundance of biological populations. Chapman and Hall, London
9. Burnham KP, Anderson DR (1998) Multiple model selection and inference: an information theoretic approach. Springer, London
10. Catry P, Campos A, Segurado P, Silva M, Strange I (2003) Population census and nesting habitat selection of thin-billed prion Pachyptila belcheri on New Island, Falkland Islands. Polar Biol 26(3):202-207
11. Croxall JP, Ricketts C, Prince PA (1984) Impact of seabirds on marine resources, especially krill, of South Georgia waters. In: Whittow GA, Rah H (ends) Seabird energetics. Plenum, New York, pp 516-533
12. Cuthbert R (2004) Breeding biology of the Atlantic Petrel, Stercoroma incepts, and a population estimate of this and other burrowing petrels on Gough Island, South Atlantic Ocean. Emu 104(3):221-228
13. Hamilton SA (2001) How precise and accurate are data obtained using an infra-red scope for burrow nesting birds? Mar Ornithic 28(1):1-6
14. Hunter I, Croxall JP, Prince PA (1982) The distribution and abundance of burrowing seabirds (Proletarianises) at Bird Island, South Georgia. 1. Introduction and methods. Bar Antarctic Sura Bull 56:49
15. Imber M, Harrison M, Harrison J (2000) Interactions between petrels, rats and rabbits on Whale Island, and effects of rat and rabbit eradication. NZJ Econ 24(2):153-160
16. Johnstone GA (1985) Threats to birds on subantarctic islands. In: Moors PJ (ed) Conservation of island birds, vol 3. ICBM Technical Publication, ICBM, pp 101-121
17. Obvention P, Bride J, Micro T (2003) Insular bird populations can be saved from rats: a long-term experimental study of white-chinned petrels Procellaria aequinoctialis on Ile de la Possession (Crozet archipelago). Polar Biol 26(6):371-378
18. Laake JL, Buckland ST, Anderson DR, Burnham KP (1994) DISTANCE users guide. Version 2.1. Colorado Fish and Wildlife Research Unit. Colorado State University, Fort Collins, USA
19. Marchant S, Higgins PJ (1990) Handbook of Australian, New Zealand & Antarctic Birds, vol 1, Part A. Oxford University Press, Melbourne
20. McChesney GA, Tershy BAR (1998) History and status of introduced mammals and impacts to breeding seabirds on the California channel and northwestern Baa California islands. Colonial Waterbirds 21(3):335-347
21. Rosenstock SIS, Anderson DR, Ginsen KM, Levering T, Carter FM (2002) Ladybird counting techniques: current practices and an alternative. Auk 119(1):46-53
22. Schlatter RAP, Riveros GM (1997) Natural history of the Diego Ramirez Archipelago, Chile. Sep Client INARCH No 47:87-112
23. Schramm M (1986) Burrow densities and nest site preferences of petrels (Procellarian) at the Prince Edward Islands. Polar Biol 6:63-70
24. Warham J (1990) The Petrels: their ecology and breeding systems. Academic, London, UK
25. Warham J, Wilson GA (1982) The size of the sooty shearwater population at the Snares Islands, New Zealand. Notornis 29:23-30
26. Weimerskirch H, Zoster R, Obvention P (1989) The avifauna of the Kerguelen Islands. Emu 89:15-29
27. Williams BK, Nicholas DJ, Conrod MAJ (2002) Analysis and management of animal populations. Academic, London, UK, p 244