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Cryptic Seabirds Can Hide From This Scientist, But Not From Her Spy Network
Acoustic monitoring combined with powerful machine learning is giving researchers new insights into the elusive Ashy Storm-Petrel. It’s just one way that artificial intelligence can tackle pressing conservation challenges.
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Introduced and native vertebrates in pink- footed shearwater (Ardenna creatopus) breeding colonies in Chile.
Carle, R. D., Fleishman, A. B., Valela, T., Angulo, P. M., Rodt, G. De, Hodum, P., Colodro, V., López, V., Gutiérrez-Guzmán, H. (2021). PLOS One, 16(7), 1–24
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Comparing non-breeding distribution and behavior of red-legged kittiwakes from two geographically distant colonies.
Drummond, B. A., Orben, R. A., Christ, A. M., Fleishman, A. B., Renner, H. M., Rojek, N. A., Romano, M. D. (2021). PLOS One, 16(7), 1–17.
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Wintering in the western subarctic Pacific increases mercury contamination of red-legged kittiwakes
Fleishman, A.B., Orben, R.A., Kokubun, N., Will, A., Paredes, R., Ackerman, J.T., Takahashi, A., Kitaysky, A.S. and Shaffer, S.A. (2019). Environmental Science & Technology, 53(22), 13398-13407.
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Temporal and interspecific variation in feather mercury in four penguin species from Macquarie Island, Australia.
Gilmour, M. E., Holmes, N. D., Fleishman, A. B., & Kriwoken, L. K. (2019). Marine Pollution Bulletin, 142(April), 282–289.
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Tropical seabirds sample broadscale patterns of marine contaminants.
Gilmour, M. E., Hudson, S. A. T., Lamborg, C., Fleishman, A. B., Young, H. S., & Shaffer, S. A. (2019). Science of the Total Environment, 691, 631–643.
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A convolutional neural network for detecting sea turtles in drone imagery.
Gray, P. C., Fleishman, A. B., Klein, D. J., McKown, M. W., Bézy, V. S., Lohmann, K. J., & Johnston, D. W. (2019). Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 10(3), 345–355.
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Comparing imaging, acoustics, and radar to monitor Leach’s storm-petrel colonies.
Orben, R. A., Fleishman, A. B., Borker, A. L., Bridgeland, W., Gladics, A. J., Porquez, J., Sanzenbacher, P., Stephensen, S. W., Swift, R., McKown, M.W., & Suryan, R. M. (2019). PeerJ, 7, e6721.
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Evidence of Newell’s Shearwaters and Hawaiian Petrels on Oahu, Hawaii.
Young, L. C., Vanderwerf, E. A., McKown, M. W., Roberts, P., Schlueter, J., Vorsino, A., & Sischo, D. (2019). The Condor, 121(1), 1–7.
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Persistent annual migration patterns of a specialist seabird.
Orben, R. A., Kokubun, N., Fleishman, A. B., Will, A. P., Yamamoto, T., Shaffer, S. A., Paredes, R., Takahasi, A., & Kitaysky, A. S. (2018). Marine Ecology Progress Series, 593, 231–245.
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Invasive rat eradication strongly impacts plant recruitment on a tropical atoll.
Wolf, C. A., Young, H. S., Zilliacus, K. M., Wegmann, A. S., McKown, M. W., Holmes, N. D., Tershy, B. R., Dirzo, R., Kropidlowski, S., & Croll, D. A. (2018). PLOS One, 13(7), 1–17.
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Passive recovery of an island bird community after rodent eradication.
Croll, D. A., Newton, K. M., McKown, M. W., Holmes, N., Williams, J. C., Young, H. S., Buckelew, S., Wolf, C. A., Howald, G., Bock, M. F., Curl, J. A., & Tershy, B. R. (2016). Biological Invasions, 18(3), 703–715.