Project

2569

Chief Investigator

GALES, Dr Rosemary - Department of Primary Industries & Water

Title

Conservation and population status of albatrosses and giant petrels on Macquarie Island

Project aims

Albatross and petrel populations have declined globally due to interactions with fishing operations. The survival of all four albatross species and two giant petrel species breeding on Macquarie Island is threatened. Ongoing monitoring of population numbers and survival rates is essential to assess their conservation status and mitigate negative impacts upon them. Long term studies are required to obtain reliable information on population size and productivity, adult and juvenile survival rates, and age- and sex-related effects on survival. The birds' oceanic movements will also be investigated so that questions regarding temporal and spatial overlap with fisheries can be addressed.

Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

Gales R. (1998) Albatross populations: Status and Threats, Robertson G., Gales R. (eds) Biology and conservation of Albatrosses 20-45; [Ref: 8268]

Croxall J.C., Gales R.G. (1998) An assessment of the Conservation status of albatrosses, in: Robertson G., Gales R. (eds) Albatross Conservation and Biology 46-65; [Ref: 8533]

Terauds A., Gales R. (2006) Provisioning strategies and growth patterns of Light-mantled Sooty Albatrosses Phoebetria palpebrata on Macquarie Island, Polar Biology ; [Ref: 12433]

Alderman R., Double M.C., Valencia J., Gales R.P. (2005) Genetic affinities of newly sampled populations of Wandering and Black-browed Albatross, Emu 105. 169-179; [Ref: 12434]

Terauds A., Gales R., Baker G.B., Alderman R. (2006) Population and survival trends of Wandering Albatrosses (Diomedea exulans) breeding on Macquarie Island, Emu 106. 211-218; [Ref: 12688]

Terauds A., Gales R., Alderman R. (2006) Trends in numbers and survival of Black-browed (Thalassarche melanophrys) and Grey-headed (T. chrysostoma) Albatrosses breeding on Macquarie Island, Emu 105. 159-167; [Ref: 12689]

Terauds A., Gales R., Baker G.B., Alderman R. (2006) Foraging areas of black-browed and grey-headed albatrosses breeding on Macquarie Island in relation to marine protected areas, Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater ecosystems 16. 133-146; [Ref: 12691]

Waugh S.M., Baker G.B., Gales R., Croxall J.P. (2007) CCAMLR process of risk assessment to minimise the effects of longline fishing mortality on seabirds, Marine Policy ; [Ref: 13334]

Cooper J., Baker G.B., Double M.C., Gales R., Papworth W., Tasker M.L., Waugh S.M. (2006) The Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels: rationale, history, progress and the way forward, Marine Ornithology 34. 1-5; [Ref: 13335]

Trebilco R., Gales R., Baker G.B., Terauds A., Sumner M.D. (2008) At sea movement of Macquarie Island giant petrels: Relationships with marine protected areas and Regional Fisheries Management Organisations, Biological Conservation 141. 2942-2958; [Ref: 13550]

Gales R. (2008) Albatross: Flagship taxa at Half Mast, in: de Roy T., Jones M., Fritter J. (eds) Albatross: their World, their Ways 148-157; [Ref: 13696]

Techow N.M.S.M., O'Ryan C., Phillips R.A., Gales R., Marin M., Patterson-Fraser D., Quintana F., Ritz M.S., Thompson D.R., Wanless R.M., Weimerskirch H., Ryan P.G. (2009) Speciation and phylogeography of giant petrels Macronectes, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution ; [Ref: 13957]

Trebilco R., Gales R., Lawrence E., Alderman R., Robertson G., Baker G.B. (2010) Characterizing seabird bycatch in the Eastern Australian Tuna and Billfish pelagic longline fishery in relation to temporal, spatial and biological influences, Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 12pp; [Ref: 14157]

Alderman R., Gales R., Hobday A.J., Candy S.G. (2010) Post-fledging survival and dispersal of shy albatross from three breeding colonies in Tasmania, Marine Ecology Progress Series 405. 271-285; [Ref: 14185]

Wakefield E.D., Phillips R.A., Trathan P.N., Arata J., Gales R., Huin N., Robertson G., Waugh S.M., Weimerskirch H., Matthiopoulos J. (2011) Habitat preference, accessibility, and competition limit the global distribution of breeding Black-browed Albatrosses, Ecological Monographs 81(1). 141-167; [Ref: 14414]

Category 2: International meeting papers

Trebilco R., Gales R., Baker B., Terauds A. (2006) The use of CCAMLR statistical sub-areas 88.1 and 88.2, and Division 58.4.1 by Macquarie Island Giant Petrels, CCAMLR Scientific Papers WG-FSA-06/49; [Ref: 13336]