Population Trend of the World's Monitored Seabirds, 1950-2010.

ABSTRACT: Seabird population changes are good indicators of long-term and large-scale change in marine ecosystems, and important because of their many impacts on marine ecosystems. We assessed the population trend of the world's monitored seabirds (1950-2010) by compiling a global database of seabird population size records and applying multivariate autoregressive state-space (MARSS) modeling to estimate the overall population trend of the portion of the population with sufficient data (i.e., at least five records). This monitored population represented approximately 19% of the global seabird population. We found the monitored portion of the global seabird population to have declined overall by 69.7% between 1950 and 2010. This declining trend may reflect the global seabird population trend, given t

SUBMITTER: Paleczny M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4461279 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature