Authors: Airam Rodríguez, José M. Arcos, Vincent Bretagnolle, Maria P. Dias, Nick D. Holmes, Maite Louzao, Jennifer Provencher, André F. Raine, Francisco Ramírez, Beneharo Rodríguez, Robert A. Ronconi, Rebecca S. Taylor, Elsa Bonnaud, Stephanie B. Borrelle, Verónica Cortés, Sébastien Descamps, Vicki L. Friesen, Meritxell Genovart, April Hedd, Peter Hodum, Grant R. W. Humphries, Matthieu Le Corre, Camille Lebarbenchon, Rob Martin, Edward F. Melvin, William A. Montevecchi, Patrick Pinet, Ingrid L. Pollet, Raül Ramos, James C. Russell, Peter G. Ryan, Ana Sanz-Aguilar, Dena R. Spatz, Marc Travers, Stephen C. Votier, Ross M. Wanless, Eric Woehler, André Chiaradia
Venue: Frontiers in Marine Science
Type: Publication
Abstract: Shearwaters and petrels (hereafter petrels) are highly adapted seabirds that occur across all the world’s oceans. Petrels are a threatened seabird group comprising 124 species. They have bet-hedging life histories typified by extended chick rearing periods, low fecundity, high adult survival, strong philopatry, monogamy and long-term mate fidelity and are thus vulnerable to change. Anthropogenic alterations on land and at sea have led to a poor conservation status of many petrels with 52 (42%) threatened species based on IUCN criteria and 65 ...
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Topics: 
Ecology
Fishery
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