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ACAP is a multilateral agreement which seeks to conserve albatrosses and petrels by coordinating international activity to mitigate known threats to albatross and petrel populations. ACAP came into force in February 2004 and currently has 13 member countries and covers 30 species of albatrosses, petrels and shearwaters.
MoP4 MEETING 2012: The Fourth Session of the Meeting of the Parties to ACAP (MoP4) was held in Lima, Peru from Monday 23 April to Friday 27 April 2012.
AC6 MEETING 2011: The Sixth Meeting of ACAP's Advisory Committee (AC6) was held from Monday 29 August to Friday 2 September 2011, at the Unipark Hotel, Guayaquil, Ecuador. Click here for Meeting Documents and the AC6 Final Report.
Click on the links below for final reports from:
- Seabird Bycatch Working Group (SBWG6), and;
- Joint Breeding Sites and Status & Trends Working Group (BSWG4/STWG6).
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Posted on: 17/05/2012
From lavage to lipids: estimating diets of seabirds
Nina Karnovsky (Pomona College, Department of Biology, Claremont, California, USA) and colleagues, publishing open-access this year in the journal Marine Ecology Progress Series have reviewed methods of analysing the diets of seabirds, including albatrosses and petrels.
The paper's abstract follows:
""Understanding seabird marine habitat affinities, at-sea behavior, variability…
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