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ANIMAL INFORMATION: Please note, this part of mongabay has been updated |
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Amsterdam AlbatrossEducational resources on Amsterdam AlbatrossAmsterdam Albatross [an error occurred while processing this directive] IUCN Profile of the Amsterdam Albatross Split Diomedea exulans into four species Proposal (388) to South American Classification Committee . Split Diomedea exulans into four species . Effect on SACC: This would divide an existing species, Diomedea exulans www.museum.lsu.edu/~Remsen/SACCprop388.html The Biologyof Small Populations: A few more thoughts on genetics The Amsterdam albatross is recovering from an extreme bottleneck. When rstdiscoveredin the early 1980s, only5 breeding pairs were known. Approximately 130 adult birds now exist (http darwin.eeb.uconn.edu/eeb310/lecture-notes/genetics-supplemental.pdf Surviving with low genetic diversity The Amsterdam albatross is recovering from an extreme bottleneck. When first discovered in the early 1980s, only 5 breeding pairs were known. Approximately 130 adult birds now darwin.eeb.uconn.edu/eeb310/lecture-notes/genetics-supplemental/node1.html thtieten/end-sio.html ..."Population Dynamics of the Wandering Albatross and Amsterdam Albatross in the Indian Ocean and their Relationships with Long- line Fisheries: Conservation Implications." www.colby.edu/personal/t/thtieten/end-sio.html Costa Lab - Yann Tremblay Tremblay, Y. (2006) Amsterdam Albatross. In Encyclopedia of the Antarctic, ed. Riffenburgh B., Routledge, New-York (USA). In Press. Tremblay Y., Shaffer S.A., Fowler S.L., Khun bio.research.ucsc.edu/people/costa/people/tremblay.html www.cs.ucf.edu A few years ago a new species of albatross was discovered breeding on Amsterdam Island in the southern Indian Ocean - it was appropriately named the Amsterdam Albatross. www.cs.ucf.edu/~MidLink/part5.html Harrison, P.: Seabirds of the World: A Photographic Guide. ...have never been published before, and include pictures of some of the rarest and most enigmatic birds in the world--species such as the recently discovered Amsterdam Albatross, the press.princeton.edu/titles/6027.html Ecology of Populations Genetic Diversity species region/area covered number of loci % polymorphic loci a expected heterozygosity wandering Albatross Indian and Atlantic Oceans 234 5.1 0.028 Amsterdam Albatross Amsterdam island web.cocc.edu/bi103jm/Bi103%20S09%2012%20Conservation%20Biology.pdf Other Wildlife / blackbrowed.jpg We also saw lots of wandering albatross, and several birders on board are pretty sure they sighted an Amsterdam albatross, an extremely rare bird (fewer than 100 are known to exist www.personal.psu.edu/tmh1/Antarctica/OtherWildlife/pages/blackbrowed_jpg.htm PFRP Protected Species Project - Statistical modeling of Hawaiian ... ..."Population dynamics of Wandering Albatross Diomedea exulans and Amsterdam Albatross Diomedia amsterdamensis in the Indian Ocean and their www.soest.hawaii.edu/PFRP/protected_species/goodman.html
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