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Polar Monitoring: Seabirds as Sentinels of Marine Ecosystems

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Adaptation and Evolution in Marine Environments, Volume 2

Part of the book series: From Pole to Pole ((POLE))

Abstract

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC 2007) has highlighted an urgent need to assess how ecosystems respond to climate change. This has placed a large Earth and Life Sciences focus on polar regions, as these areas are so far experiencing the strongest and the most rapid global environmental changes.

An erratum to this chapter can be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27349-0_12

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We are very grateful to the Institut Polaire Français–Paul-Emile Victor (IPEV, Programme 137 ECOPHY-ANTAVIA) and the Terres Australes et Antarctiques Françaises (TAAF), the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (Programme Zone Atelier de Recherches sur l’Environnement Antarctique et Sub-Antarctique), the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (Programme ANR BLANC 1728-01-PICASO) and the Centre Scientifique de Monaco (LEA-647 BioSensib) for all of their support for long-term data collection and their help in developing Polar Life Observatories. Robot development was supported by the TOTAL corporate Foundation. We also wish to thank H. Ducklow, W. Fraser, J. McClintock and M. Pinkerton for figure permissions.

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Le Bohec, C., Whittington, J.D., Le Maho, Y. (2013). Polar Monitoring: Seabirds as Sentinels of Marine Ecosystems. In: Verde, C., di Prisco, G. (eds) Adaptation and Evolution in Marine Environments, Volume 2. From Pole to Pole. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27349-0_11

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