New paper & Dataset: Quantifying annual spatial consistency in chick-rearing seabirds to inform important site identification

Fellow Martin Beal led a new paper that investigates the importance of analysing individual movement data over spatial multiple years for informing area-based conservation measures at sea for seabird species. They brought together tracking data from 23 species across 7 families, with at least 10 birds tracked in 3 or more years at each population, during the chick-rearing period. The good news are that one or two year of data are already very informative.

This paper is an output of Martin’s PhD on “Identifying marine key biodiversity areas using tracking data”, recently awarded by the ISPA. This project was a collaboration between the ISPA – Instituto Universitário (supervisor:Paulo Catry), BirdLife International (supervisor Maria Dias, collaborators Paul F. DonaldStuart Butchart, ), also involving the BTO and the British Antarctic Survey.

Publication:

Beal, M., Catry, P., Phillips, R. A., Oppel, S., Arnould, J. P. Y., Bogdanova, M. I., Bolton, M., Carneiro, A. P. B., Clatterbuck, C., Conners, M., Daunt, F., Delord, K., Elliott, K., Fromant, A., Granadeiro, J. P., Green, J. A., Halsey, L., Hamer, K. C., Ito, M., Jeavons, R., Kim, J.-H., Kokubun, N., Koyama, S., Lane, J. V., Lee, W. Y., Matsumoto, S., Orben, R. A., Owen, E., Paiva, V. H., Patterson, A., Pollock, C. J., Ramos, J. A., Sagar, P., Sato, K., Shaffer, S. A., Soanes, L., Takahashi, A., Thompson, D. R., Thorne, L., Torres, L., Watanuki, Y., Waugh, S. M., Weimerskirch, H., Whelan, S., Yoda, K., Xavier, J. C., Dias, M. P. (2023). Quantifying annual spatial consistency in chick-rearing seabirds to inform important site identification. Biological Conservation 281: 109994. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2023.109994

Dataset and scripts:

Beal, M., Catry, P., Phillips, R. A., Oppel, S., Arnould, J. P. Y., Bogdanova, M. I., Bolton, M., Carneiro, A. P. B., Clatterbuck, C., Conners, M., Daunt, F., Delord, K., Elliott, K., Fromant, A., Granadeiro, J. P., Green, J. A., Halsey, L., Hamer, K. C., Ito, M., Jeavons, R., Kim, J.-H., Kokubun, N., Koyama, S., Lane, J. V., Lee, W. Y., Matsumoto, S., Orben, R. A., Owen, E., Paiva, V. H., Patterson, A., Pollock, C. J., Ramos, J. A., Sagar, P., Sato, K., Shaffer, S. A., Soanes, L., Takahashi, A., Thompson, D. R., Thorne, L., Torres, L., Watanuki, Y., Waugh, S. M., Weimerskirch, H., Whelan, S., Yoda, K., Xavier, J. C., Dias, M. P. (2023). Data and Scripts for: Quantifying Annual Spatial Consistency in Chick-Rearing Seabirds to Inform Important Site Identification. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7692668 → Open Access Repository.

[image corresponds to Figure 1 of the paper]