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Estimating the Abundance of Shearwaters and Gulls in the North Aegean Sea

Sylvia Zakkak,M. Panagiotopoulou,J. Halley

Published 2013 in Marine Ornithology

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Seabird populations are subject to numerous, increasing pressures both on land and at sea, including disruption of breeding areas by introduced species, such as rats or cats (Martin et al. 2000, Tranchant et al. 2003, Bonnaud et al. 2007, Bourgeois & Vidal 2008), massive tourism development (James 1984, Gallo-Orsi 2003, Bourgeois & Vidal 2008), fisheries bycatch (Cooper et al. 2003 and Arcos et al. 2008) and disturbance of food sources through overfishing (Furness 2003, Karpouzi 2005). While traditional problems such as harvest of eggs or individuals (Krpan 1970, Vigne et al. 1991) have decreased, others, such as oil spills, have increased (Bourgeois & Vidal 2008). The latest to be added to the list of threats is global warming, as seabirds’ prey distribution is changing through various complex interactions (Wolf et al. 2010). According to the IUCN Red List Index, since 1994 seabirds are doing worse than other bird categories (Butchart et al. 2004).

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