Island restoration to rebuild seabird populations and amplify coral reef functioning.

ABSTRACT: Mobile organisms like seabirds can provide important nutrient flows between ecosystems, but this connectivity has been interrupted by the degradation of island ecosystems. Island restoration (via invasive species eradications and the restoration of native vegetation) can reestablish seabird populations and their nutrient transfers between their foraging areas, breeding colonies, and adjacent nearshore habitats. Its diverse benefits are making island restoration increasingly common and scalable to larger islands and whole archipelagos. We identified the factors that influence breeding seabird abundances throughout the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean and conducted predictive modeling to estimate the abundances of seabirds that the archipelago could support under invasive predator erad

SUBMITTER: Dunn RE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11780216 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature