EFFECTS OF SATELLITE TRANSMITTERS ON ALBATROSSES AND PETRELS

By R. Phillips, J. Xavier, J. Croxall. 2003

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Subfields: Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Citations in the corpus

Quantifying habitat use and preferences of pelagic seabirds using individual movement data: a review (2009, background): “It is generally accepted that payloads >~3% of body mass can result in behavioral changes (Kenward 2001, Phillips et al. 2003).”
GPS tracking of the foraging movements of Manx Shearwaters Puffinus puffinus breeding on Skomer Island, Wales (2008, methodology): “We deployed the smallest devices available, used the generally agreed lowest impact attachment methods (e.g. Phillips et al. 2003), and restricted deployments to single excursions (occasionally, with one or more subsequent deployments only after an interval).”
Satellite telemetry of marine megavertebrates: the coming of age of an experimental science (2009, background): “…for the study of smaller-sized and deepdiving marine mammals, seabirds, and sea turtles (Mate 1989, Wilson et al. 2002, Eckert 2006, Fossette et al. 2008), while raising awareness of potential deleterious instrument effects on tagged individuals (Phillips et al. 2003, Wilson & McMahon 2006).”
Foraging strategies of grey-headed albatrosses Thalassarche chrysostoma: integration of movements, activity and feeding events (2004, background): “Logger deployment on foraging seabirds can result in prolonged foraging trips (Pütz et al. 1998, Phillips et al. 2003).”
Lifetime foraging patterns of the wandering albatross: Life on the move! (2014, background): “GLS loggers (Mk4 or 15, British Antarctic Survey) weighed 2.5–4.56 g, which is considered as having negligible effects on such a large bird, representing 0.03% of their body mass (Phillips et al., 2003).”
Accuracy of geolocation estimates for flying seabirds (2004, background): “Another is instrument size and shape, with even the smallest of the current generation presenting potential problems in terms of hydrodynamic drag for small penguins and increased wing-loading for flying seabirds (Wilson et al. 1986, Culik et al. 1994, Phillips et al. 2003).”
Foraging plasticity in a pelagic seabird species along a marine productivity gradient (2010, background): “Both types of loggers always represented less than 3% of the bird’s body weight, which has been reported to have no deleterious effects on seabird species (Phillips et al. 2003), including Cory’s shearwaters (Igual et al. 2005), during short-term deployments.”
Guidelines for the instrumentation of wild birds and mammals. (2009, background): “…is essentially arbitrary (Caccamise & Hedin 1985; Aldridge & Brigham 1988; Gessaman & Nagy 1988), while the ‘3% rule’ appears to have been extrapolated from a review of albatross and petrel studies correlating device loads with foraging trip durations and nest desertions (Phillips et al. 2003).”
Annual and seasonal consistency in the feeding ecology of an opportunistic species, the yellow-legged gull Larus michahellis (2014, positive): “The total mass of the device (17 g) was below 3% of adult mass (1.6 to 2.3%), as recommended by Phillips et al. (2003).”