Seabird foraging behaviour, habitat preferences and implications for fishery bycatch mitigation

My PhD project focuses on determining the environmental and ecological processes driving the differential habitat use of closely-related albatross and petrel species (and in particular of juvenile life-stages), and investigating the implications of these trends for conservation. This project is a collaboration between BAS, the University of Cambridge, the Government of South Georgia and the South Sandwhich Islands and the RSPB.

Research interests

Spatial Ecology, Marine Ecosystems, R

Frankish, C. K., Phillips, R. A., Clay, T. A., Somveille, M. & Manica, A. Environmental drivers of movement in a threatened seabird: insights from a mechanistic model and implications for conservation. Divers Distrib, 00, 1-15 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.13130

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