Publications

We practice science-informed conservation and freely share our discoveries.

A mainstay of our team’s work is collecting field data on threatened species and ecosystems and synthesizing those data into peer-reviewed scientific publications that answer critical questions about the conservation needs of species, inform conservation solutions, and advance our understanding of nature.

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2019

Broader foraging range of ancient short-tailed albatross populations into California coastal waters based on bulk tissue and amino acid isotope analysis

Vokhshoori, N.L., M.D. McCarthy, P.W. Collins, M.A. Etnier, T. Rick, M. Eda, J. Beck, and S.D. Newsome.
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2019

Broader foraging ranger of ancient short-tailed albatross populations into California coastal waters based on bulk tissue and amino acid isotope analysis.

Vokhshoori, N., McCarthy M.D., Collins, P.W., Etneir, M.A., Torben, R., Eda, M., Beck, J., Newsome, S.D.
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2018

Overlap of Pink-footed Shearwaters and central Chilean purse-seine fisheries: Implications for bycatch risk

Carle, R., Felis, J., Vega, R., Beck, J., Adams, J., Lopez, V., Hodum, P., González, A., Colodro, V., Varela, T.
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2018

Globally Important Islands Where Eradicating Invasive Mammals will Benefit Highly Threatened Vertebrates.

Holmes, N.D., Spatz, D.R., Oppel, S., Tershy, B., Croll, D.A., Keitt, B., Genovesi, P., Burfield, I.J., Will, D.J., Bond, A.L., Wegmann, A., Aguirre-Muñoz, A., Raine, A.F., Knapp, C.R., Chung, C.H., Wingate, D., Hagen, E., Méndez-Sánchez, F., Rocamora, G., Yuan, H.W., Fric, J., Millet, J., Russell, J., Liske-Clark, J., Vidal, E., Jourdan, H., Campbell, K., Springer, K., Swinnerton, K., Gibbons-Decherong, L., Langrand, O., Brooke, M. de L., McMinn, M., Bunbury, N., Oliveira, N., Sposimo, P., Geraldes, P., McClelland, P., Hodum, P., Ryan, P.G., Borroto-Páez, R., Pierce, R., Griffiths, R., Fisher, R.N., Wanless, R., Pasachnik, S.A., Cranwell, S., Micol, T., and Butchart, S.H.M.
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2018

Investigation of a Largescale Common Murre (Uria aalge) Mortality Event in California in 2015

Gibble, C., Duerr, R., Bodenstein, B., Lindquist, K., Lindsey, J., Beck, J., Henkel, L., Roletto, J., Harvey, J., Kudela, R.
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2018

Trophic declines and decadal-scale foraging segregation in three pelagic seabirds

Morra, K.E., Chikaraishi, Y., Gandhi, H., James, H.F., Rossman, S., Wiley, A.E., Raine, A.F., Beck, J., and Ostrom, P.H.
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2018

Diving behavior of Pink-footed Shearwaters Ardenna creatopus rearing chicks on Isla Mocha, Chile

Adams, J., Felis, J.J., Czapanskiy, M., Carle, R.D., & Hodum, P.J.
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2018

Demographics of Laysan Phoebastria Immutabilis and Black-footed P. NigripesAlbatross caught as bycatch in Alaskan groundfish and Hawaiian longline fisheries.

Nevins, H.M., Beck, J., Michael, P.E., Hester, M., Peschon, J., Donnelly-Greenan, E., & Fitzgerald, S.
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2017

Prey switching and consumption by seabirds in the central California Current upwelling ecosystem: Implications for forage fish management

Warzybok, P., Santora, J.A., Ainley, D.G., Bradley, R.W., Field, J.C., Capitolo, P.J., Carle, R.D., Elliot, M., Beck, J.N., McChesney, G.J., Hester, M.M., Jahncke, J.
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2017

First Quantification of Plastic Ingestion by Short-Tailed Albatross Phoebastria Albatrus

Donnelly-Greenan, E., Hyrenbach, D., Beck, J., Fitzgerald, S., Nevins, H., & Hester, M.
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