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ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2020

Striking centennial-scale changes in the population size of a threatened seabird.

Matthew P Duda, Gregory J Robertson, Joeline E Lim, Jennifer A Kissinger, David C Eickmeyer, Christopher Grooms, Linda E Kimpe, William A Montevecchi, Neal Michelutti, Jules M Blais and 1 more

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Article in Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Southern Ocean seabird population shifts over the Holocene revealed by peat sequestration of mercury from guano.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  2. Moult-Induced Changes in Gut Microbiota of African Penguins (Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2026
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  7. Linking 19th century European settlement to the disruption of a seabird's natural population dynamics.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors.

Matthew P DudaDepartment of Biology, Paleoecological Environmental Assessment and Research Lab (PEARL), Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6.
Gregory J RobertsonWildlife Research Division, Environment and Climate Change Canada, 6 Bruce Street, Mount Pearl, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada A1N 4T3.
Joeline E LimDepartment of Biology, Paleoecological Environmental Assessment and Research Lab (PEARL), Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6.
Jennifer A KissingerDepartment of Biology, University of Ottawa, 30 Marie Curie Pvt., Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1N 6N5.
David C EickmeyerDepartment of Biology, University of Ottawa, 30 Marie Curie Pvt., Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1N 6N5.
Christopher GroomsDepartment of Biology, Paleoecological Environmental Assessment and Research Lab (PEARL), Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6.
Linda E KimpeDepartment of Biology, University of Ottawa, 30 Marie Curie Pvt., Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1N 6N5.
William A MontevecchiDepartment of Psychology, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada A1B 3X9.
Neal MicheluttiDepartment of Biology, Paleoecological Environmental Assessment and Research Lab (PEARL), Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6.
Jules M BlaisDepartment of Biology, University of Ottawa, 30 Marie Curie Pvt., Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1N 6N5.
John P SmolDepartment of Biology, Paleoecological Environmental Assessment and Research Lab (PEARL), Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Many animal populations are under stress and declining. For numerous marine bird species, only recent or sparse monitoring data are available, lacking the appropriate temporal perspective needed to consider natural, long-term population dynamics when developing conservation strategies. Here, we use a combination of established palaeoenvironmental approaches to examine the centennial-scale dynamics of the world's largest colony (representing approx. 50% of the global population) of the declining and vulnerable Leach's Storm-petrel (

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BirdsAnimalsEndangered SpeciesPopulation DensityPopulation Dynamicsconservationlimnologymonitoringpalaeolimnologypopulation dynamicsstorm-petrel

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PMID31964297
PMCPMC7015332

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