Research Catalog

Title

Albatross biology and conservation / edited by Graham Robertson and Rosemary Gales.

Publication

Chipping Norton, N.S.W. : Surrey Beatty & Sons, 1998.

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Additional Authors

• Robertson, Graham, 1949-
• Gales, Rosemary, 1960-

Description

xii, 300 pages : illustrations (some color), maps; 31 cm

Subject

• Albatrosses
• Tierökologie
• Artenschutz
• Fischerei
• Albatrosse

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Type specimens of albatrosses collected on Cook's second voyage / by D.G. Medway -- Towards a new taxonomy for albatrosses / by C.J.R. Robertson and G.B. Nunn -- Albatross populations: status and threats / by R. Gales -- An assessment of the conservation status of albatrosses / by J.P. Croxall and R. Gales -- Population changes in albatrosses at South Georgia / by J.P. Croxall ... [et al.] -- Changes in population sizes and demographic parameters of six albatross species breeding on the French sub-Antarctic islands / by H. Weimerskirch and P. Jouventin -- Breeding biology of Southern Buller's Albatrosses at The Snares, New Zealand / by P.M. Sagar and J. Warham -- Factors influencing the breeding performance of the Northern Royal Albatross / by C.J.R. Robertson -- Biology and management of the Waved Albatross at the Galápagos Islands / by D.J. Anderson and F. Cruz -- A review of the food of albatrosses / by Y. Cherel and N. Klages -- The pelagic distribution of South Georgia albatrosses and their relationships with fisheries / by P.A. Prince ... [et al.] -- Foraging strategies of Indian Ocean albatrosses and their relationships with fisheries / by H. Weimerskirch -- Foraging ranges of Waved Albatrosses in the eastern Tropical Pacific Ocean / by D.J. Anderson, A.J. Schwandt and H.D. Douglas -- Human-induced mortality of Southern Ocean albatrosses at sea in the 19th century: a brief historical review / by D.G. Medway -- Laysan and Black-footed Albatrosses: trophic relationships and driftnet fisheries associations of non-breeding birds / by P. Gould ... [et al.] -- Albatross-fisheries interactions in Patagonian shelf waters / by A. Schiavini ... [et al.] -- Albatross mortality in fisheries off the coast of Brazil / by T. Neves and F. Olmos -- The conservation of albatrosses in Uruguayan waters / by A. Stagi ... [et al.] -- The roles of organochlorine contaminants and fisheries bycatch in recent population changes of Black-footed and Laysan Albatrosses in the North Pacific Ocean / by J.P. Lugwig ... [et al.] -- Plastic ingestion by Laysan Albatross chicks on Sand Island, Midway Atoll, in 1994 and 1995 / by H.J. Auman ... [et al.] -- Wither the albatross: NGO perspectives on albatross conservation / by M. Earle and B. McKay -- International legal and political bases to the management of the incidental catch of seabirds / by M. Haward, A. Bergin and H. Robert Hall -- Research and conservation: a future for albatrosses? / by J.P. Croxall.

ISBN

• 0949324825
• 9780949324825

LCCN

99231485

OCLC

• ocm39291742
• 39291742
• SCSB-14185763

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library