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  1. Decades of artificial nests towards African penguin conservation—Have they made a difference?
  2. The African Penguin Spheniscus demersus should be considered Critically Endangered
  3. Second bibliography of biodiversity research on Robben Island
  4. African penguin Spheniscus demersus foraging on juvenile fish in jellyfish tentacles
  5. An overview of the impacts of fishing on seabirds, including identifying future research directions
  6. A framework for studying ecological energy in the contemporary marine environment
  7. Inter-colony and inter-annual variation in discard use by albatross chicks revealed using isotopes and regurgitates
  8. Demographic rates reveal the benefits of protected areas in a long-lived migratory bird
  9. Factors determining the number of seabirds impacted by oil spills and the success of their rehabilitation: Lessons learned from Namibia and South Africa
  10. Geolocator tracking seabird migration and moult reveal large‐scale temperature‐driven isoscapes in the NE Atlantic
  11. Intercolony variation in reproductive skipping in the African penguin
  12. Marine Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas in the Chagos Archipelago
  13. African Penguins and Localized Fisheries Management: Response to Butterworth and Ross-Gillespie
  14. Prey-switching to fishery discards does not compensate for poor natural foraging conditions in breeding albatross
  15. Strategic discarding reduces seabird numbers and contact rates with trawl fishery gears in the Southwest Atlantic
  16. The Decline and Conservation Status of the African Penguin
  17. Using Predicted Patterns of 3D Prey Distribution to Map King Penguin Foraging Habitat
  18. Correction to ‘Bayesian inference reveals positive but subtle effects of experimental fishery closures on marine predator demographics'
  19. South Africa's experimental fisheries closures and recovery of the endangered African penguin
  20. Hemispheric asymmetry in ocean change and the productivity of ecosystem sentinels
  21. Investigating differences in population recovery rates of two sympatrically nesting sea turtle species
  22. Sexual segregation of gannet foraging over 11 years: movements vary but isotopic differences remain stable
  23. Half a century of global decline in oceanic sharks and rays
  24. Urofaecal glucocorticoid metabolite concentrations in African penguin (Spheniscus demersus) chick populations experiencing different levels of human disturbance
  25. Vulnerability of northern gannets to offshore wind farms; seasonal and sex-specific collision risk and demographic consequences
  26. The conservation status and population decline of the African penguin deconstructed in space and time
  27. The conservation status and population decline of the African penguin deconstructed in space and time
  28. Microplastic study reveals the presence of natural and synthetic fibres in the diet of King Penguins (Aptenodytes patagonicus) foraging from South Georgia
  29. Parenting in a warming world: thermoregulatory responses to heat stress in an endangered seabird
  30. Geographical and temporal variation in the diet of Bank Cormorants Phalacrocorax neglectus in South Africa
  31. The status and conservation of the Cape Gannet Morus capensis
  32. Estimating IUCN Red List population reduction: JARA—A decision‐support tool applied to pelagic sharks
  33. Scavenger communities and fisheries waste: North Sea discards support 3 million seabirds, 2 million fewer than in 1990
  34. JARA: ‘Just Another Red list Assessment’
  35. Sex‐specific effects of fisheries and climate on the demography of sexually dimorphic seabirds
  36. Happy Feet in a Hostile World? The Future of Penguins Depends on Proactive Management of Current and Expected Threats
  37. Food habits of an endangered seabird indicate recent poor forage fish availability off western South Africa
  38. Local forage fish abundance influences foraging effort and offspring condition in an endangered marine predator
  39. Sex differences in migration and demography of a wide-ranging seabird, the northern gannet
  40. A non-invasive approach to estimate the energetic requirements of an increasing seabird population in a perturbed marine ecosystem
  41. The costs of kleptoparasitism: a study of mixed-species seabird breeding colonies
  42. How many can you catch? Factors influencing the occurrence of multi-prey loading in provisioning Greater Crested Terns
  43. Foraging plasticity in seabirds: A non-invasive study of the diet of greater crested terns breeding in the Benguela region
  44. Bayesian inference reveals positive but subtle effects of experimental fishery closures on marine predator demographics
  45. Survival estimates for the greater crested tern Thalasseus bergii in southern Africa
  46. Seabird species vary in behavioural response to drone census
  47. ​​​​​​​PhD jobs: Revamp funding structures
  48. Best practices for assessing forage fish fisheries-seabird resource competition
  49. Defining ecologically relevant scales for spatial protection with long-term data on an endangered seabird and local prey availability
  50. Seabirds
  51. Body condition as a quantitative tool to guide hand-rearing decisions in an endangered seabird
  52. Metapopulation Tracking Juvenile Penguins Reveals an Ecosystem-wide Ecological Trap
  53. Penguins’ perilous conservation status calls for complementary approach based on sound ecological principles: reply to Butterworth et al. (2015)
  54. Dietary studies in birds: testing a non‐invasive method using digital photography in seabirds
  55. System dynamics modelling of the Endangered African penguin populations on Dyer and Robben islands, South Africa
  56. Bottom-up effects of a no-take zone on endangered penguin demographics
  57. Egg morphology of Swift Terns in South Africa
  58. Hand-Rearing, Release and Survival of African Penguin Chicks Abandoned Before Independence by Moulting Parents
  59. Age-specific survival and movement among major African PenguinSpheniscus demersuscolonies
  60. Processes influencing the population dynamics and conservation of African penguins on Dyer Island, South Africa
  61. A system dynamics approach to modelling multiple drivers of the African penguin population on Robben Island, South Africa
  62. Growth and decline of a penguin colony and the influence on nesting density and reproductive success
  63. Ostrich chick humoral immune responses and growth rate are predicted by parental immune responses and paternal colouration
  64. The initial journey of an Endangered penguin: implications for seabird conservation
  65. Influence of local and regional prey availability on breeding performance of African penguins Spheniscus demersus
  66. Artificial nests enhance the breeding productivity of African Penguins (Spheniscus demersus) on Robben Island, South Africa
  67. Storms and heat limit the nest success of Bank Cormorants: implications of future climate change for a surface-nesting seabird in southern Africa
  68. Introduced European Rabbits ( Oryctolagus cuniculus ) and Domestic Cats ( Felis catus ) on Robben Island: Population Trends and Management Recommendations
  69. Spotting the difference: towards fully-automated population monitoring of African penguins Spheniscus demersus
  70. Interactions between snakes and seabirds on Robben, Schaapen and Meeuw Islands, Western Cape province, South Africa