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Chapter 14: Vulnerability of seabirds on the Great Barrier Reef to climate change
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Title: | Chapter 14: Vulnerability of seabirds on the Great Barrier Reef to climate change |
Authors: | Congdon, B.C. Erwin, C.A. Peck, D.R. Baker, G.B. Double, M.C. O'Neill, P. Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority |
ASFA Subjects: | Climatic changes Coral reefs Ecosystem resilience Birds (marine) Nature conservation |
APAIS Subject: | Birds Environmental management Environmental impact |
Location: | Reef-wide |
Category: | Animals Plants Ecosystems Processes Economic values Social values Climate change Coastal communities |
Issue Date: | 2007 |
Publisher: | The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority |
Series/Report no.: | Book: Climate change and the Great Barrier Reef: a vulnerability assessment |
Abstract: | Seabirds are highly visible, charismatic predators in marine ecosystems that are defined as feeding exclusively at sea, in either nearshore, offshore or pelagic waters. At a conservative estimate there are approximately 0.7 billion individuals of 309 species of seabirds globally. Such high population abundance means that in all ecosystems where seabirds occur the levels of marine resources they consume are significant. Such high consumption rates also mean that seabirds play a number of important functional roles in marine ecosystems, including the transfer of nutrients from offshore and pelagic areas to islands and reefs, seed dispersal and the distribution of organic matter into lower parts of the developing soil profile (eg burrow-nesting species such as shearwaters). |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/11017/546 |
ISBN: | 9781876945619 |
Type of document: | Book section or chapter |
Appears in Collections: | Effects |
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