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The melting of Arctic alters the migration of seabirds
europapress.es
Monday, June 27, 2011
Half of the gulls spend the winter in this area, while another part moves to the northeast Atlantic to the month of February, before returning to breeding colonies
The melting of Arctic alters the migration of seabirds, as now demonstrated an investigation by the installation of satellite monitoring instruments in populations of kittiwake, one of the most common species in Arctic latitudes.
In fact, scientists have shown after a year of tracking the migration of the sea bird, and in some cases nests on the Atlantic coasts of the Iberian Peninsula, this species avoids areas of ice.
"Considering the amount of ice in the Arctic will decrease dramatically in the coming decades," the gull probably move their wintering grounds to the north, underlined in a statement Professor, Department of Animal Biology and Research Institute Biodiversity at the University of Barcelona (UB), Jacob Gonz?lez-Sol?s, who participated in the project.
The installation of data transmission has also received assistance from the Ministry of Environment and Rural Marino Spain, although the international project is led by the Center for Functional and Evolutionary Ecology CNRS and is funded by the Institute French Polar (IPEV), the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (Nina) and the Ministry of Education and Science of Spain.
Tracking the kittiwake - 'Rissa tridactyla' - has detailed first migration of this species, which has been found that this species has multiple migration strategies, and can respond to environmental changes faster than previously thought.
The bird, once completed breeding, moves to the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and east of the Bering Sea to molt their plumage and recover from the reproductive effort, while the two months of rest is capable of moving in only nine days to the Labrador Sea in the west of Greenland.
Half of the gulls spend the winter in this area, while another part moves to the northeast Atlantic to the month of February, before returning to breeding colonies.
Spanish to English translation
The melting of Arctic alters the migration of seabirds
europapress.es
Monday, June 27, 2011
Half of the gulls spend the winter in this area, while another part moves to the northeast Atlantic to the month of February, before returning to breeding colonies
The melting of Arctic alters the migration of seabirds, as now demonstrated an investigation by the installation of satellite monitoring instruments in populations of kittiwake, one of the most common species in Arctic latitudes.
In fact, scientists have shown after a year of tracking the migration of the sea bird, and in some cases nests on the Atlantic coasts of the Iberian Peninsula, this species avoids areas of ice.
"Considering the amount of ice in the Arctic will decrease dramatically in the coming decades," the gull probably move their wintering grounds to the north, underlined in a statement Professor, Department of Animal Biology and Research Institute Biodiversity at the University of Barcelona (UB), Jacob Gonz?lez-Sol?s, who participated in the project.
The installation of data transmission has also received assistance from the Ministry of Environment and Rural Marino Spain, although the international project is led by the Center for Functional and Evolutionary Ecology CNRS and is funded by the Institute French Polar (IPEV), the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (Nina) and the Ministry of Education and Science of Spain.
Tracking the kittiwake - 'Rissa tridactyla' - has detailed first migration of this species, which has been found that this species has multiple migration strategies, and can respond to environmental changes faster than previously thought.
The bird, once completed breeding, moves to the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and east of the Bering Sea to molt their plumage and recover from the reproductive effort, while the two months of rest is capable of moving in only nine days to the Labrador Sea in the west of Greenland.
Half of the gulls spend the winter in this area, while another part moves to the northeast Atlantic to the month of February, before returning to breeding colonies.