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- description: The Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge (AMNWR) conducts annual ecological monitoring at nine sites throughout
Alaska. The objective of this long-term monitoring program is to collect baseline status and trend information for a suite
of seabird species representing piscivorous and planktivorous trophic guilds, including key species that serve as indicators
of ecosystem health. Members of these guilds include surface feeders and divers feeding in both nearshore and offshore waters.
By relating data to environmental conditions and information from other sites, ecosystem processes may be better understood.
Data also provide a basis for directing management and research actions, and in assessing effects of management. The specific
monitoring goals in 2011 were to estimate productivity and/or population parameters for six indicator species representing
three major feeding guilds: 1) diving fish-feeders (red-faced cormorants [Phalacrocorax urile] and common and thick-billed
murres [Uria aalge and U. lomvia]), 2) surface fishfeeders (black-legged and red-legged kittiwakes [Rissa tridactyla and R.
brevirostris]), and 3) diving plankton feeders (least auklets [Aethia pusilla]). Additional monitoring goals include the description
of breeding chronology, food habits, chick growth, and adult survival for one or more of the above species.; abstract: The
Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge (AMNWR) conducts annual ecological monitoring at nine sites throughout Alaska. The
objective of this long-term monitoring program is to collect baseline status and trend information for a suite of seabird
species representing piscivorous and planktivorous trophic guilds, including key species that serve as indicators of ecosystem
health. Members of these guilds include surface feeders and divers feeding in both nearshore and offshore waters. By relating
data to environmental conditions and information from other sites, ecosystem processes may be better understood. Data also
provide a basis for directing management and research actions, and in assessing effects of management. The specific monitoring
goals in 2011 were to estimate productivity and/or population parameters for six indicator species representing three major
feeding guilds: 1) diving fish-feeders (red-faced cormorants [Phalacrocorax urile] and common and thick-billed murres [Uria
aalge and U. lomvia]), 2) surface fishfeeders (black-legged and red-legged kittiwakes [Rissa tridactyla and R. brevirostris]),
and 3) diving plankton feeders (least auklets [Aethia pusilla]). Additional monitoring goals include the description of breeding
chronology, food habits, chick growth, and adult survival for one or more of the above species.
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- Title Biological monitoring at St. George Island, Alaska in 2011.
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