LIS: Restaurant For Birds: Robben: Introduction

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Robben: Introduction

Introduction

Tom Robben

COA, President, and Research Chair since 2013.

BIRDS NEED THE CHANGING LIS "RESTAURANT" TO SURVIVE!

This conference focuses on the LIS Long Island Sound ecosystem and its food web, and the birds feeding on this changing food web, which is, in effect, the birds' restaurant, with its "menu" changing seasonally. This entire LIS ecosystem (including its food web) changes in seasonal cycles and in long-term trends. We look at both kinds of changes. Birds depend upon this "menu" of food to survive and reproduce. It is imperative that we understand this menu and how it is changing.

LIS Long Island Sound has annual seasonal cycles, driven by these physical cycles:

LIS also has long tern trends, such as these:

Razorbill with three Sandlances:

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