Seabird and reef conservation must include coral islands.

Tropical seabirds exert key roles in reef ecosystems but face growing threats from climate change, especially on coral reef islands (CRIs). Therefore, we advocate for a more comprehensive, global data exchange on CRIs and CRI-dependent seabirds and outline steps for improving their study and conservation.

• Publication year

  2023

• Venue

  Trends in Ecology & Evolution

• Publication date

  2023-03-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1016/j.tree.2023.02.004PMID 36925406
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

• Source metadata

  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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