Conservation of Marine Birds is the first book to outline and synthesize the myriad of threats faced by one of the most imperiled groups of birds on earth. With more than half of all 346 seabird species worldwide experiencing population declines and 29% of species recognized as globally threatened by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, the timing to determine solutions to threats could not be more urgent. Written by a diverse team of international experts on marine birds, this book explores the environmental and biogeographical factors that influence seabird conservation and provides concrete recommendations for mounting climate change issues.
This book will be an important resource for researchers and conservationists, as well as ecologists and students who want to understand seabirds, the threats they are facing, and tactics to help conserve and protect them.
- Outlines both threats and solutions in the marine and terrestrial realm
- Synthesizes information to provide a comprehensive strategy moving forward, especially considering climate change
- Created by a team of experts with the latest and most comprehensive knowledge of seabird conservation
Section I: Threats
1. Ecology of marine birds
Lindsay C. Young and Lisa T. Ballance
2. Conservation status and overview of threats to seabirds
Richard A Phillips, Jérōme Fort, and Maria P Dias
3. Interactions between fisheries and seabirds: prey modification, discards
and bycatch
William A. Montevecchi
4. Invasive species
Dena R. Spatz, Holly Jones, Elsa Bonnaud, Peter Kappes, Nick D. Holmes, and
Yuliana Bedolla Guzmįn
5. Health and Diseases
Ralph Eric Thijl Vanstreels, Marcela M. Uhart, and Thierry Work
6. Pollution - lights, plastics, oil, and contaminants
Morgan Gilmour, Stephanie Borrelle, Linda Elliott, Rae Okawa, and Airam
Rodriguez
7. Exploitation and disturbance
D.C. Duffy and V. Peschko
8. Climate change: the ecological backdrop of seabird conservation
Pierre A. Pistorius, William J. Sydeman, Yutaka Watanuki, Sarah Ann Thompson,
Florian Orgeret
Section II: Solutions
9. Introduction and historical approaches to seabird conservation
Colin M. Miskelly
10. Legal and cooperative mechanisms for conserving marine birds
Mi Ae Kim, Craig S. Harrison, and Mark L. Tasker
11. Cultural aspects of seabird management
Kawika B. Winter, Rebecca C. Young, and Phil Lyver
12. Managing harvests of seabirds and their eggs
Liliana C. Naves and Thomas C. Rothe
13. Mitigating light attraction
Airam Rodriguez
14. Reducing collisions with structures
Marc S. Travers
15. Conservation of Marine Birds: Biosecurity, control, and eradication of
invasive species threats
Nick Holmes, Rachel Buxton, Holly Jones, Federico Méndez Sįnchez, Steffen
Oppel, James Russell, Dena Spatz, Araceli Samaniego
16. Fisheries regulation and conserving prey bases
Mark Tasker and William J. Sydeman
17. Bycatch reduction
Edward F. Melvin, Anton Wolfaardt, Rory Crawford, Eric Gilman, and Cristiįn
G. Suazo
18. Protecting marine habitats: spatial conservation measures for seabirds at
sea
Robert A. Ronconi, Joanna L. Smith, and Karel A. Allard
19. Restoration and assisted colonization by social attraction and
translocation
Eric A. VanderWerf, Stephen Kress, Yuliana Bedolla Guzmįn, Dena Spatz, Graeme
Taylor, and Helen Gummer
20. Conclusions and the future of seabird conservation
Lindsay C. Young and Eric A. VanderWerf
Dr. Lindsay Young is the Executive Director of Pacific Rim Conservation, a non-profit organization she co-founded with Eric VanderWerf to address research and management needs of native species across the Pacific. She earned an MS and Ph.D. in Zoology from the University of Hawaii. Dr. Young has specialized in creating mainland islands through predator proof fencing followed by habitat restoration and seabird attraction and translocation. In 2014 she oversaw the construction of a predator proof fence at Kilauea Point National Wildlife Refuge followed by intensive habitat restoration in anticipation of translocating Hawaiian Petrels and Newells Shearwaters. Dr. Young has authored several dozen scientific papers, served as the treasurer for the Pacific Seabird Group, the local chair of PSG twice, the chair of the North Pacific Albatross Working Group, and the North Pacific correspondent for ACAP (Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels). Dr. Eric A. VanderWerf is the Director of Science of Pacific Rim Conservation. He completed a Ph.D. at the University of Hawai`i, where his research focused on plumage variation and effects of habitat disturbance and diseases on population biology of the Hawai`i Elepaio. He has worked on a variety of conservation and ornithological projects in Hawai`i and throughout the Pacific and was previously with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Hawaii Division of Forestry and Wildlife. Dr. VanderWerf has authored over 100 scientific papers, book chapters, government documents, and technical reports, serves as the leader of the Hawaiian Forest Bird Recovery Team for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, on the Endangered Species Recovery Committee for State of Hawai`i, as an associate editor for the Condor, and as an associate editor of the Birds of North America.
