Pelagic seabird surveys in the Tuamotu and Gambier Archipelagos, French Polynesia

摘要: The numerous islands of eastern Polynesia provide important breeding sites for many species seabirds, but little information is available on the distribution or abundance seabirds at sea in this area (Holyoak & Thibault 1982, 1984; Bretagnolle 1999). Extensive surveys have been made pelagic tropical Pacific (e.g. Pitman 1986, Spear et al. 1992, Phillips 1995, 1995), no previous quantitative seabird conducted among island groups southeastern Pacific. This particularly true Tuamotu Archipelago, a collection 76 atolls more than 1500 km length, and remote Gambier Islands (Fig. 1).