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Example of an abstract for style and layout (see www.marineornithology.org)
CHOOSING CANDIDATE SPECIES FOR FUTURE INCLUSION WITHIN THE AGREEMENT ON THE CONSERVATION OF ALBATROSSES AND PETRELS John Cooper1 & G. Barry Baker2 1CORE Initiatives, c/o Animal Demography Unit, Department of Zoology, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7701, South Africa A simple additive scoring system using eight criteria is developed to assess 129 members of the avian order Procellariiformes for consideration as candidate species for inclusion within the Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels (ACAP). Two groups of birds appear as particularly strong candidates from among eight high-scoring species: the three North Pacific albatrosses Phoebastria spp. and three Mediterranean shearwaters of the genera Calonectris and Puffinus. Four mainly southern hemisphere-breeding shearwaters Puffinus spp. and the Peruvian Diving Petrel Pelecanoides garnotii, all species which scored relatively highly, might also be considered as candidate species for listing. At its 2007 meeting, ACAP’s Advisory Committee agreed to progress the listing of the three North Pacific albatrosses. Such listing would help move ACAP from being an essentially regional to a global agreement. |
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IAPC4 is supported by the Avian Demography Unit, University of Cape
Town and the Global Seabird Programme of BirdLife International
