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Joint CSIRO-UTAS QMS PhD program: Dr Jennifer L. Lavers

Dr Jennifer L. Lavers

Post-doctoral Fellow

 

UTAS-CSIRO-TAFI joint appointment in Quantitative Marine Science

Address: CSIRO Marine Research
GPO Box 1538
Telephone: 61+3 6232 5091
Fax: 61+3 6232 5000
Email: Jennifer.Lavers@csiro.au

 

Technical Publications


McClelland, G., Jones, I.L., Lavers, J.L., Saito, F., and Anders, A.D.  In press.  Breeding biology of Tristram’s Storm-petrel at French Frigate Shoals and Laysan Island, Northwest Hawaiian Islands.  Marine Ornithology.

Muzaffar, S.B., Smith, Jr., R.P., Jones, I.L., Lavers, J.L., Lacombe, E.H., Cahill, B.K., Lubelczyk, C.B., and Rand, P.W.  In press.  Ecology of emerging Lyme disease (Borrelia garnini) in seabird colonies off the Atlantic coast of North America.  Studies in Avian Biology.

Lavers, J.L. and Jones, I.L.  2008.  Assessing the type and frequency of band resighting errors for Razorbill (Alca torda) with implications for other wildlife studies. Marine Ornithology 36: 19-23.

Lavers, J.L., Jones, I.L., Diamond, A.W., and Robertson, G.J.  2008.  Annual survival of North American Razorbills (Alca torda) varies with ocean climate indices. Canadian Journal of Zoology 86: 51-61.

Lavers, J.L., Jones, I.L., and Diamond, A.W.  2008.  Age at first return and breeding of Razorbills (Alca torda) in Atlantic Canada.  Waterbirds 31: 30-34.

Lavers, J.L. and Jones, I.L. 2007. Factors affecting rates of intraspecific kleptoparasitism and breeding success of the Razorbill at the Gannet Islands, Labrador. Marine Ornithology 35: 1-7.

Lavers, J.L., Jones, I.L., and Diamond, A.W.  2007. Natal and breeding dispersal of Razorbills (Alca torda) in eastern North America.  Waterbirds 30: 593-99.

Lavers, J.L.  2007.  History repeating itself: are human activities threatening the survival of Razorbills in Atlantic Canada? Osprey 38: 5-8.

Lavers, J.L., Muzaffar, S.B., and Jones, I.L.  2006.  Double white lines on the bill of the Razorbill (Alca torda): remnants of an association with the extinct Great Auk? Atlantic Seabirds 7: 127-132.

Lavers, J.L., Thompson, J.E., Paszkowski, C., and Ankney, C.D. 2006.  Variation in size and composition of Bufflehead (Bucephala albeola) and Barrow’s Goldeneye (Bucephala islandica) eggs.  The Wilson Bulletin 118: 173-177.

Smith, R.P., Muzaffar, S.B, Lavers, J.L., Lacombe, E.H., Cahill, B.K., Lubelczyk, C.B., and Rand, P.W.  2006.  Borrelia garinii in seabird ticks (Ixodes uriae), Atlantic coast, North America.  Emerging Infectious Diseases 12: 1909-1912.

 

Manuscripts in preparation & submitted


Lavers, J.L., Schwarz, C.J., Pradel, R, and Jones, I.L.  In review.  Adjusting estimated apparent survival rates for biases caused by tag-read errors in capture-recapture studies.  Condor.

Lavers, J.L. and Wilcox, C.  In review.  Are the demographic benefits resulting from introduced predator eradications sufficient to reverse population declines in seabirds? Biological Invasions.

Lavers, J.L., Jones, I.L., Robertson, G.J., and Diamond, A.W.  In review.  Factors affecting population dynamics of the Razorbill Alca torda at two breeding colonies in Atlantic Canada.  Avian Conservation and Ecology.

Bond, A.L., McClelland, G.T.W., Lavers, J.L., Kyser, T.K., and Jones, I.L.  In review.  Stable isotopes reveal community patterns in seabird feeding ecology in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.  Journal of Avian Biology.

Lavers, J.L., Wilcox, C., Donlan, C.J., Wingfield, D., and Crowder, L.B.  In prep.  Solving the ‘Crowder Problem’: incorporating economic costs to changes in demographic rates.