Deconstructing myths on large gulls and their impact on threatened sympatric waterbirds

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The Biodiversity of the Mediterranean Sea: Estimates, Patterns, and Threats (2010, methodology): “Ground-breeding species such as seabirds (gulls and terns) are counted using census bands [171] and monitored by satellite tracking.”
Feeding ecology of yellow-legged gulls Larus michahellis in the western Mediterranean: a comparative assessment using conventional and isotopic methods (2009, background): “In addition, it interacts with other species, usually under protection, which can be disturbed, predated and displaced by the gulls from their breeding areas (Vidal et al. 1998, Oro & Martínez-Abraín 2007).”
Endangered, apparently: the role of apparent competition in endangered species conservation (2009, background): “The human subsidy of another generalist predator, the yellowlegged gull Larus michahellis, is associated with similar negative effects on threatened seabird species in marine environments (Oro & Martı́nez-Abraı́n, 2007; Sanz-Aguilar et al., 2009).”