Louise M. Soanes

TL;DR: It is found that northern gannets, satellite-tracked from 12 neighboring colonies, nonetheless forage in largely mutually exclusive areas and that these colony-specific home ranges are determined by density-dependent competition.

TL;DR: In this article, home-range area analysis of two seabird tracking data sets was used to define the area of active use (where birds spent 100% of their time) and the core foraging area.

TL;DR: The distribution at sea of four seabird species, foraging from approximately 5,500 breeding sites in Britain and Ireland, is estimated using Poisson point process habitat use models to predict space use by birds from unobserved colonies and thereby map the distribution atSea of each species at both the colony and regional level.

TL;DR: In this article, the space use patterns of seabirds were examined to provide guidance on whether conservation management approaches should be tailored for taxonomic groups with different movement characteristics, and the results highlight that short-ranging and aggregating species such as cormorants, auks, some penguins, and gulls would benefit from conservation approaches at relatively small spatial scales during their breeding season.

TL;DR: The Foraging Radius Approach appears to provide a reasonable basis for preliminary marine IBA identification and is suggested that using the mean value of all previously reported maximum foraging radii, informed by basic depth preferences provides the most appropriate prediction, balancing the needs of seabirds with efficient use of marine space.