What is it about?
We used lake sediments to explore the long-term population trends of a threatened seabird. Based on surveys, the population appeared to be in decline since the 1980s. But with our long-term data, we expanded the timescale to 1700 years, and found that the colony naturally fluctuated before recent declines.
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Why is it important?
Long-term data are needed to provide context to recent trends. Without such data, it is difficult to distinguish natural variability from important drivers of population decline.
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This page is a summary of: Striking centennial-scale changes in the population size of a threatened seabird, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, January 2020, Royal Society Publishing,
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2019.2234.
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