The focus of our research group is seabird ecology, emphasizing conservation, behavioural ecology, life history, and demography. Our research projects have focussed mainly on auks (avian family Alcidae) and on a variety of tropical seabirds. The marine ecosystems of the North Atlantic and North Pacific have undergone massive ecological changes over the past decades due to overfishing, other forms of human exploitation, oil spills, invasions and introductions of non-indigenous species, and natural environmental change, profoundly affecting wildlife populations. We are investigating how seabirds have responded to these changes.
In 1990, we began a long-term study of seabirds at Buldir Island, Alaska. We have been studying this system through two decades of extraordinary environmental change, to investigate how seabird behaviour, diet, productivity and demography reflect ecosystem-wide changes and to increase our knowledge of fundamental questions about seabird ecology. Recent graduate student projects have included studies of Whiskered Auklet communication behaviour and anatomy, effects of introduced rats on Least Auklets, Ivory Gull conservation genetics, Auk diseases and parasites, Tristram Storm-petrel conservation biology, Razorbill demography, murre and Razorbill diving behaviour, Least Auklet behavioural ecology, and sexual selection in Red-tailed Tropicbirds.
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Bond, A.L., McClelland, G.T.W., Jones, I.L., Lavers, J.L., and Kyser, T.K. 2010. Stable isotopes confirm community patterns in foraging among Hawaiian Procellariiformes. Waterbirds 33(1): 50-58. (Bondetal_SI_Hawaii_Waterbirds.pdf) 268 kb
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