All Outputs (6)

A circumpolar review of the breeding distribution and habitat use of the snow petrel (Pagodroma nivea), the world’s most southerly breeding vertebrate (2024)
Journal Article
Francis, J., Wakefield, E., Jamieson, S. S. R., Phillips, R. A., Hodgson, D. A., Southwell, C., Emmerson, L., Fretwell, P., Bentley, M. J., & McClymont, E. L. (2025). A circumpolar review of the breeding distribution and habitat use of the snow petrel (Pagodroma nivea), the world’s most southerly breeding vertebrate. Polar Biology, 48(1), Article 9. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-024-03336-8

Knowledge of the spatial distribution of many polar seabird species is incomplete due to the remoteness of their breeding locations. Here, we compiled a new database of published and unpublished records of all known snow petrel Pagodroma nivea breedi... Read More about A circumpolar review of the breeding distribution and habitat use of the snow petrel (Pagodroma nivea), the world’s most southerly breeding vertebrate.

Strong winds reduce foraging success in albatrosses. (2024)
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Darby, J., Phillips, R. A., Weimerskirch, H., Wakefield, E. D., Xavier, J. C., Pereira, J. M., & Patrick, S. C. (2024). Strong winds reduce foraging success in albatrosses. Current Biology, 34(23), Article 5615-5621. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2024.10.018

Knowledge of how animals respond to weather and changes in their physical environment is increasingly important, given the higher frequency of extreme weather recorded in recent years and its forecasted increase globally. Even species considered to... Read More about Strong winds reduce foraging success in albatrosses..

Northern Gannet foraging trip length increases with colony size and decreases with latitude (2024)
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Clark, B. L., Vigfúsdóttir, F., Wanless, S., Hamer, K. C., Bodey, T. W., Bearhop, S., Bennison, A., Blackburn, J., Cox, S. L., d’Entremont, K. J. N., Garthe, S., Grémillet, D., Jessopp, M., Lane, J., Lescroël, A., Montevecchi, W. A., Pascall, D. J., Provost, P., Wakefield, E. D., Warwick‐Evans, V., …Votier, S. C. (2024). Northern Gannet foraging trip length increases with colony size and decreases with latitude. Royal Society Open Science, 11(9), Article 240708. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.240708

Density-dependent competition for food influences the foraging behaviour and demography of colonial animals, but how this influence varies across a species’ latitudinal range is poorly understood. Here we used satellite tracking from 21 Northern Gann... Read More about Northern Gannet foraging trip length increases with colony size and decreases with latitude.

Seasonal resource tracking and use of sea-ice foraging habitats by albatrosses and large petrels (2024)
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Wakefield, E. D., McClymont, E. L., Carneiro, A. P. B., Croxall, J. P., González-Solís, J., Granroth-Wilding, H. M. V., Thorne, L., Warwick-Evans, V., Wood, A. G., Xavier, J. C., & Phillips, R. A. (2025). Seasonal resource tracking and use of sea-ice foraging habitats by albatrosses and large petrels. Progress in Oceanography, 230, Article 103334. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2024.103334

The Antarctic seasonal sea-ice zone (SIZ) is one of the most extensive and dynamic habitats on Earth. In summer, increased insolation and ice melt cause primary production to peak, sustaining large populations of locally-breeding seabirds. Due to the... Read More about Seasonal resource tracking and use of sea-ice foraging habitats by albatrosses and large petrels.

Oceanic seabirds chase tropical cyclones. (2024)
Journal Article
Ventura, F., Sander, N., Catry, P., Wakefield, E., De Pascalis, F., Richardson, P. L., Granadeiro, J. P., Silva, M. C., & Ummenhofer, C. C. (2024). Oceanic seabirds chase tropical cyclones. Current Biology, 34(14), 3279-3285. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2024.06.022

In late summer and autumn, the passage of intense tropical cyclones can profoundly perturb oceanic and coastal ecosystems. Direct negative effects on individuals and marine communities can be dramatic, especially in the coastal zone, but cyclones ca... Read More about Oceanic seabirds chase tropical cyclones..

Diet of non-breeding leach’s storm-petrels ( Hydrobates leucorhous ) in the sub-polar frontal zone of the North Atlantic (2024)
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Silva, M. C., Catry, P., Newton, J., Nunes, V. L., & Wakefield, E. D. (2024). Diet of non-breeding leach’s storm-petrels ( Hydrobates leucorhous ) in the sub-polar frontal zone of the North Atlantic. Marine Biology, 171(8), Article 148. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-024-04469-4

In order to understand the drivers of the distribution and abundance of pelagic seabirds it is necessary to know what they eat, yet there remains little detailed, geo-referenced information on the diets of pelagic seabird. In particular, due to sampl... Read More about Diet of non-breeding leach’s storm-petrels ( Hydrobates leucorhous ) in the sub-polar frontal zone of the North Atlantic.