Interannual variation in the diets of two albatross species breeding at South Georgia: implications for breeding performance

By J. Xavier, J. Croxall, K. Reid. 2003

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Subfields: Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change

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Relative influence of fisheries and climate on the demography of four albatross species (2010, background): “For example, black-browed albatrosses from Kerguelen and from South Georgia have, respectively overall high (65%) and low (29%) breeding success but the formers feed on fish on the Kerguelen shelf whereas the latter are dependent upon krill of which abundance and availability depends on sea ice exte”
Foraging strategies of grey-headed albatrosses Thalassarche chrysostoma: integration of movements, activity and feeding events (2004, methodology): “Here, and around the Antarctic Peninsula, they enjoyed greater feeding success than during apparent (mostly) commuting flights over comparatively featureless oceanic waters.”
Feeding strategies and diets of breeding grey-headed and wandering albatrosses at South Georgia (2003, background): “the main chick-rearing period (Table 4). This is the first study to show that grey-headed albatrosses predominately feed on krill during their chick-rearing period ( Xavier et al. 2003a; present study) and not squid or fish (Croxall et al. 1997).”
Influence of trophic position and foraging range on mercury levels within a seabird community (2009, background): “The reason greyheaded and wandering albatrosses show even higher levels than white-chinned petrels probably has less to do with foraging location than with diet, as both feed heavily on squid (Xavier et al. 2003, 2004), which in turn often have high Hg burdens, most of which (70 to 90”
Habitat preference, accessibility, and competition limit the global distribution of breeding Black-browed Albatrosses (2011, background): “For example, in any one breeding season, either Antarctic krill Euphausia superba, fish, or squid may predominate in the diet of BBA from this population (Xavier et al. 2003).”
Antarctic ecosystem monitoring: quantifying the response of ecosystem indicators to variability in Antarctic krill (2005, background): “, 2002), and a consistently lower proportion of krill in their diet (Reid et al., 1996; Xavier et al., 2003).”
SUMMER DISTRIBUTION AND MIGRATION OF NONBREEDING ALBATROSSES: INDIVIDUAL CONSISTENCIES AND IMPLICATIONS FOR CONSERVATION (2005, background): “…variety of foraging habitat, Black-browed Albatrosses have catholic dietary tastes: depending on the site, they generally take fish, krill, or squid in shelf and shelf-break areas, and squid at frontal zones or in deeper oceanic water (Waugh et al. 1999, Cherel et al. 2000, Xavier et al. 2003).”