The XIth SCAR (Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research) Symposium "Life in Antarctica: Boundaries and Gradients in a Changing Environment" was held in Barcelona, Spain over 15-19 July this year.

Eleven oral and poster presentations were made that considered ACAP-listed albatrosses and petrels.  They are listed below by title and authorship.

M. Cerdà-Cuéllar, V. Aragón, M. Aguilera, P.G. Ryan & J. González-Solís:  Occurrence and distribution of zoonotic Salmonella and Campylobacter in Antarctic and Subantarctic seabirds

J. Forcada, E.JH. Murphy, P.N. Trathan, C. Waluda & J.L. Watkins:  Do Antarctic communities show synchronous responses to drivers of their staple food?

T. Iwata, K. Shimada, A. Tachibana, N. Kasamatsu-Takasawa, K. Sato, T. Miyazaki, J. Kanda & M. Moteki:  Distribution of seabirds associated with oceanographic features off Wilkes Land, Southern Ocean

L. Kruger, J.A. Ramos, J.C. Xavier, V.H. Paiva, E. Petersen & M.V. Petry: Oceanographic conditions to explain sexual segregation in foraging habitats of giant petrels

L. Kruger, J.A. Ramos, J.C. Xavier, V.H. Paiva, R.A. Phillips & M.V. Petry: Year-round at-sea distribution of giant petrels from the Antarctic Peninsula

M. Louzao, T. Wiegand, F. Bartumeus & H. Weimerskirch:  Energetic patterns of free-ranging animals in the open ocean

T. Patterson, R. Sharples, B. Raymond, V. Andrews-Goff, M.A. Lea & M. Hindell:  Modelling top predator habitat preference and overlap at Heard Island

R.A. Phillips, S. Bearhop, R.A.R. McGill, R. Moreno & G. Stowasser:  Isotopic analyses of predator-prey dynamics in the Scotia Sea

B. Raymond, T. Patterson, R. Sharples, V. Andrews-Goff, M.A. Lea, R. Alderman, .J.B Charrassin, M. Cottin, L. Emmerson, R. Gales, A. Kato, Y. Ropert-Coudert, C. Southwell, B. Wienecke, S. Wotherspoon & M. Hindell:  Two decades of predator tracking data reveal areas of critical East Antarctic marine habitat

J.L. Roscales, L. Zango, J. Gonzalez-Solis & B. Jimenez:  Anthropogenic organic pollutants in giant petrels (Macronectes spp.): geographic and trophic relationships

J.C. Xavier, Y. Cherel & R.A. Phillips:  Feeding ecology of Antarctic top predators: have we always under-estimated the role of cephalopods in their diets?

A Southern Giant Petrel and its chick in Antarctica

Photograph by Jeroen Creuwels

With thanks to Richard Phillips for information

John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 9 August 2013