Project 4087
Project |
4087 |
Chief Investigator |
EMMERSON, Dr Louise - Australian Antarctic Division |
Title |
Seabird response to environmental variation and change: identifying drivers of key ecological processes |
Project aims
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Final Summary of Project Achievements
• Undertook research on seabird diet and foraging ecology of direct relevance to CEMP and CCAMLR for ecosystem-based fisheries management
• Continued long term understanding of foraging ecology of the Adélie penguin in the Mawson region
• Expanded foraging studies to additional seabird species including Cape petrels, snow petrels, Antarctic petrels and South polar skua and to other locations across East Antarctica
• Trialled a range of tracker devices for flying seabirds and substantially extended our understanding of the foraging ecology and winter migratory routes of Antarctic breeding seabirds
• Collaborated broadly with Japanese, French, Chinese and Italian colleagues to achieve research objectives
• Instigated an investigation of levels of persistent organic pollutants in seabirds to identify their likely source in relation to our human activities at Antarctic bases or during the birds winter migration route
• Contributed to a global workshop on drivers of Adélie penguin survival
• Continued analyses of key demographic parameters to identify drivers and likely changes in relation to climate change and fisheries activities
• Contributed data and expertise to ASPA management plans and policy decisions and approvals relating to Antarctic breeding seabirds
• Began assessing the potential impact of constructing and operating a year-round runway on the Antarctic breeding seabirds and tailored data collection and analysis for this purpose
• Regularly attended and submitted working papers to CCAMLR Working Group and Scientific Committee meetings
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature
Robertson G., Wienecke B., Emmerson L., Fraser A.D. (2014) Long-term trends in the population size and breeding success of emperor penguins at the Taylor Glacier colony, Antarctica, Polar Biology 37(2). 251-259; [Ref: 15154]
Ropert-Coudert Y., Hindell M.A., Phillips R., Charrassin J.B., Trudelle L., Raymond B. (2014) Biogeographic Patterns of Birds and Mammals, in: de Broyer C., Koubbi P. (eds) The Biogeographic Atlas of the Southern Ocean Ch. 8. 364-387; [Ref: 15400]
Einoder L.D., Emmerson L.M., Southwell D.M., Southwell C.J. (2014) Cavity characteristics and ice accumulation affect nest selection and breeding in snow petrels Pagodroma Nivea, Marine Ornithology 42. 175-182; [Ref: 15439]
Emmerson L., Southwell C., Clarke J., Tierney M., Kerry K. (2015) Adélie penguin response parameters signal reduced prey accessibility: implications for predator-prey response curves, Marine Biology 162(6). 1187-1200; [Ref: 15511]
Southwell C.J., Emmerson L.M., McKinlay J.P., Newbery K.M., Takahashi A., Kato A., Barbraud C., DeLord K., Weimerskirch H. (2015) Spatially Extensive Standardized Surveys Reveal Widespread, Multi-Decadal Increase in East Antarctic Adélie Penguin Populations, PLoS ONE 18pp; [Ref: 15645]
Younger J.L., Emmerson L.M., Miller K.J. (2015) The influence of historical climate changes on Southern Ocean marine predator populations: a comparative analysis, Global Change Biology .; [Ref: 15693]
Younger J., Emmerson L., Southwell C., Lelliott P., Miller K. (2015) Proliferation of East Antarctic Adélie penguins in response to historical deglaciation, BMC Evolutionary Biology 15:236. .; [Ref: 15760]
Dehnhard N., Achurch H., Clarke J., Michel L., Southwell C., Sumner M.D., Eens M., Emmerson L. (2020) High inter-and intra-specific niche overlap among three sympatrically breeding, closely-related seabird species. Generalist foraging as an adaptation to a highly variable environment?, Journal of Animal Ecology 89. 104-119; [Ref: 16238]
Emmerson L., Walsh S., Southwell C. (2019) Non-breeder birds at colonies display qualitatively similar mass change patterns as breeders, Ecology and Evolution 9. 4637-4650; [Ref: 16241]
Clucas G.V., Younger J.L., Kao D., Emmerson L., Southwell C., Wienecke B., Rogers A.D., Bost C-A. , Miller G.D., Polito M.J., Lelliott P., Handley J., Crofts S., Phillips R.A., Dunn M.J., Gharbi K., Miller K.J., Hart T. (2018) Comparative population genomics reveals key barriers to dispersal in Southern Ocean penguins, Molecular Ecolog 27(23). 1-18; [Ref: 16242]
Gao Y., Sun L., Yang L., Emmerson L., Southwell C., Wang Y., Sun L. (2018) Last Millennium Adélie Penguin Mortality and Colony Abandonment Events on Long Peninsula, East Antarctica, Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeoscience 123 (9). 1-12; [Ref: 16243]
Southwell C., Emmerson L., Takahashi A., Kato K., Barbraud C., Delord L., Weimerskirch H. (2017) Recent studies overestimate colonization and extinction events for Adelie Penguin breeding colonies, The Auk: Ornithological Advances 134 39-50; [Ref: 16247]
Southwell C., Emmerson L., Takahashi A., Barbraud C., Delford K., Weimerskirch H. (2017) Large-scale population assessment informs conservation management for seabirds in Antarctica and the Southern Ocean: a case study of Adélie penguins, Global Ecology and Conservation 9 104-115; [Ref: 16248]
Hindell M.A., Reisinger R.R., Ropert-Coudert Y., Hückstädt L.A., Trathan P.N. (2020) Tracking of marine predators to protect Southern Ocean ecosystems, Nature 580 87-92; [Ref: 16424]
Handley J., Rouyer M-M. , Pearmain L., Warwick-Evans V., Teschke K., Hinke J., Lynch H., Emmerson L., Southwell C., Griffith G., Cardenas C.A., Franco A., Trathan P., Dias M.P. (2021) Marine Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas for penguins in Antarctica targets for conservation action, Frontiers in Marine Science 7 .; [Ref: 16425]
Kokubun N., Emmerson L., McInnes J., Wienecke B., Southwell C. (2021) Sea-ice and density-dependent factors affecting foraging habitat and behaviour of Adélie penguins throughout the breeding season, Marine Biology 168:97 .; [Ref: 16426]
Wild S., Eulaers I., Covaci A., Bossi R., Southwell C., Emmerson L. (2022) South polar skua (Catharacta maccormicki) as biovectors for long-range transport of persistent organic pollutants to Antarctica, Environmental Pollution .; [Ref: 16507]
Riaz J., Bestley S., Wotherspoon S., Emmerson L. (2021) Horizontal-vertical movement relationships: Adélie penguins forage continuously throughout provisioning trips, Movement Ecology .; [Ref: 16514]
Southwell C., Wotherspoon S., Emmerson L. (2021) Emerging evidence of resource limitation in an Antarctic seabird metapopulation after 6 decades of sustained population increase, Oecologia .; [Ref: 16524]
Lewis P.J., Lashko A., Chiaradia A., Allinson G., Shimeta J., Emmerson L. (2022) New and legacy persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in breeding seabirds from the East Antarctic, Environmental Pollution .; [Ref: 16579]
Emmerson L., Southwell C. (2022) Environment-triggered demographic changes cascade and compound to propel a dramatic decline of an Antarctic seabird metapopulation, Global Change Biology .; [Ref: 16583]
Berg S., Emmerson L.M., Heim C., Buchta E., Fromm T., Blaser B., Hermichen W.D., Rethemeyer J., Southwell C. (2023) Reconstructing the Paleo-Ecological Diet of Snow Petrels (Pagodroma nivea) From Modern Samples and Fossil Deposits: Implications for Southern Ocean Paleoenvironmental Reconstructions, Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences .; [Ref: 16823]
Clark B.L., Cleeland J. (2023) Global assessment of marine plastic exposure risk for oceanic birds, Nature Communications .; [Ref: 16863]
Viola B., Wienecke B., Green C., Corney S., Raymond B., Southwell C., Sumner M.D., Virtue P., Wotherspoon S., Emmerson L. (2023) Marine distribution and habitat use by Snow Petrels Pagodroma nivea in East Antarctica throughout the non-breeding period, Frontiers in Marine Science 10. 1278229; [Ref: 16902]
Category 2: International meeting papers
Emmerson L., Southwell C. (2017) Estimating prey consumption of the non-breeder component of an Adélie penguin population, CCAMLR WG-EMM-17/12 .; [Ref: 16255]
Southwell C., Emmerson L. (2016) Krill consumption by Adélie penguins in CCAMLR Divisions 58.4.1 and 58.4.2, CCAMLR WG-EMM-16/65 .; [Ref: 16260]
Emmerson L., Southwell C. (2016) Current work towards estimating krill consumption by flying seabirds in CCAMLR Divisions 58.4.1 and 58.4.2, CCAMLR WG-EMM-16/67 .; [Ref: 16262]
Trathan P.N., Emmerson L., Southwell C., Waluda C. (2016) A bioenergetics model assessment of the prey consumption of macaroni penguins in Subarea 48.3, CCAMLR WG-EMM-16/37 .; [Ref: 16263]
Southwell C., Trathan P.N. (2016) Progress by WG-EMM-STAPP in estimating krill consumption by air-breathing predators within CCAMLR Areas, CCAMLR WG-EMM-16/68 .; [Ref: 16264]
Emmerson L., Kokubun N., Southwell C. (2013) Winter and summer foraging location of Adélie penguins from Mawson, Davis and Casey, . CCAMLR WG-EMM-13/08 (restricted document); [Ref: 15070]
Category 3: Poster
Emmerson L.M., McInnes J., Southwell C. (2013) Differences in Adélie penguin foraging, diet and reproductive success at sites with contrasting marine environmental conditions, XIth SCAR Biology Symposium, Barcelona, Spain, 15-19 July 2013 .; [Ref: 15634]
Category 3: Verbal presentation
Emmerson L.M. (2014) Adélie penguins and their interaction with the environment: a co-ordinated effort to compare drivers of survival, Conservation of Polar Species Endangered by Climate Change seminar, Massachusetts, USA, 5-6 May 2014 .; [Ref: 15635]
Emmerson L., Southwell C., Wienecke B. (2013) Seabird response to environmental variation and change: identifying drivers of key ecological processes, Strategic Science in Antarctica Conference, Hobart, Australia, 24-26 June 2013 .; [Ref: 15073]
Southwell C., Emmerson L. (2013) Metapopulation-scale studies of Adélie penguins in east Antarctica: using spatial variation in the environment to understand the ecological relationships between penguins and their environment, 8th International Penguin Conference, Bristol, United Kingdom, 2-6 September. .; [Ref: 15075]
Emmerson L., Southwell C. (2013) Ecological insights from long-term Adelie penguin monitoring at Mawson, eastern Antarctica: the interaction between penguins and their environment, 8th International Penguin Conference, Bristol, United Kingdom, 2-6 September .; [Ref: 15076]
McInnes J., Emmerson L., Faux C., Southwell C., Jarman S. (2013) The power of poo – diet of Adelie penguins from faecal samples, 8th International Penguin Conference, Bristol, United Kingdom, 2-6 September .; [Ref: 15078]
Emmerson L.M. (2014) Population dynamics fragmented in time and space: ecological research from two extreme desert ecosystems, Ecological Society of Australia conference, Alice Springs Australia, 28 September - 3 October 2014 .; [Ref: 15633]