Field Research on Antarctic Seabirds: A Workshop

直到最近，人们才认识到海鸟作为海洋生态系统一部分的重要性。为了了解极地海洋生态系统的动态，需要关注物理环境与主要生物成分之间的相互作用，包括海洋哺乳动物和海鸟等顶级捕食者。本次研讨会将重点关注南大洋的海鸟物种，但也将包括北极和温带的物种。在过去十年中，用于研究海鸟的新仪器和采样技术的发展为研究海鸟的生理学、种群生物学和群落生态学提供了宝贵的见解。随着新方法的发展，人们开始担心所获得的数据中存在偏见。本次研讨会将讨论用于海鸟研究的研究方案的主题，目的是了解对所研究的种群和收集的数据的影响。

The importance of seabirds as part of the marine ecosystem has only recently been recognized. In order to understand the dynamics of polar marine ecosystems, a focus on the interaction between the physical environment and the major biological components, including such apex predators as marine mammals and seabirds, is required. This workshop will focus on Southern Ocean seabird species, but will include arctic and temperate species. The development of new instrumentation and sampling techniques for studying seabirds during the last decade has given valuable insights into their physiology, population biology and community ecology. As new approaches have developed, concern has been raised about the introduction of bias into the data being obtained. This workshop will address the topic of research protocols used in seabird studies with the aim of understanding the effects on the population studied and the data collected.