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Hatch, S.A., T.W. Pearson, and P.J. Gould. 1979. Reproductive ecology of seabirds at Middleton Island, Alaska. U.S. Dep. Commer. NOAA, OCSEAP Ann. Rep. 2: 233–308.

Hatch, S.A. 1983. The fledging of common and thick-billed murres on Middleton Island, Alaska. J. Field Ornithol. 54: 266–274.

Hatch, S.A. 1984. Nestling diet and feeding rates of rhinoceros auklets in Alaska. Pages 106–115 in D.N. Nettleship, G.A. Sanger, and P.F. Springer (eds.), Marine birds: their feeding ecology and commercial fisheries relationships. Can. Wildl. Serv. Spec. Pub., Ottawa.

Hatch, S.A., B.D. Roberts, and B.S. Fadely. 1993. Adult survival of black-legged kittiwakes Rissa tridactyla in a Pacific colony. Ibis 135: 247–254.

Hatch, S.A., G.V. Byrd, D.B. Irons, and G.L. Hunt, Jr. 1993. Status and ecology of kittiwakes (Rissa tridactyla and R. brevirostris) in the North Pacific. Pages 140–153 in K. Vermeer et al. (eds.), Status, ecology, and conservation of marine birds of the North Pacific. Can. Wildl. Serv. Spec. Pub., Ottawa.

Roberts, B.D. and S.A. Hatch. 1993. Behavioral ecology of black-legged kittiwakes during chick rearing in a failing colony. Condor 95: 330–342.

Roberts, B.D. and S.A. Hatch. 1994. Chick movements and adoption in a colony of black-legged kittiwakes. Wilson Bull. 106: 289–298.

Jodice, P.G.R., R.B. Lanctot, V.A. Gill, D.D. Roby, and S.A. Hatch. 2000. Sexing adult black-legged kittiwakes by DNA, behavior, and morphology. Waterbirds 23: 407–417.

Gill, V.A., S.A. Hatch, and R.B. Lanctot. 2002. Sensitivity of breeding parameters to food supply in black-legged kittiwakes Rissa tridactyla. Ibis 144: 268–283.

Gill, V.A. and S.A. Hatch. 2002. Components of productivity in black-legged kittiwakes Rissa tridactyla: response to supplemental feeding. J. Avian Biol. 33: 113–126.

Jodice, P.G.R., D.D. Roby, V.A. Gill, S.A. Hatch, R.G. Lanctot, and G.H. Visser. 2002. Does food availability affect energy expenditure of nesting seabirds? A supplemental feeding experiment with black-legged kittiwakes. Can. J. Zool. 80: 214–222.

Lanctot, R.B., S.A. Hatch, V.A. Gill, and M. Eens. 2003. Are corticosterone levels a good indicator of food availability and reproductive performance in a kittiwake colony? Hormones and Behav. 43: 489–502.

Hatch, S.A. 2003. Statistical power for detecting trends with applications to seabird monitoring. Biol. Conserv. 111: 317–329.

Gill, V.A., S.A. Hatch, and R.B. Lanctot. 2004. Colonization, population growth, and nesting success of black oystercatchers following a seismic uplift. Condor 106: 791–800.

Gasparini, J., A. Roulin, V.A. Gill, S.A. Hatch, and T. Boulinier. 2006. Kittiwakes strategically reduce investment in replacement clutches. Proc. R. Soc. B: 1550–1554.

Gasparini, J., A. Roulin, V.A. Gill, S.A. Hatch, and T. Boulinier. 2006. In kittiwakes food availability partially explains the seasonal decline in humoral immunocompetence. Func. Ecol. 20: 457–463.

Van Nus, T. 2006. The simple diet of a Northern Harrier Circus cyaneus hudsonius pair at Middleton Island in the Gulf of Alaska. De Takkeling 14: 68–77.

Burns, J.M., T.M. Williams, S.M. Secor, N. Owen-Smith, N.A. Bargmann, and M.A. Castellini. 2006. New insights into the physiology of natural foraging. Physiol. Biochem. Zool. 79: 242–249.

Kempenaers, B., R.B. Lanctot, V.A. Gill, S.A. Hatch, and M. Valcu. 2007. Do females trade copulations for food? An experimental study on kittiwakes (Rissa tridactyla). Behav. Ecol. 18: 345–353.

Gasparini, J., T. Boulinier, V.A. Gill, D. Gil, S.A. Hatch, and A. Roulin. 2007. Food availability affects the maternal transfer of androgens and antibodies into eggs of a colonial seabird. J. Evol. Biol. 20: 874–880.

Thayer, J.A., D.F. Bertram, S.A. Hatch, M.J. Hipfner, L. Slater, W.J. Sydeman, and Y. Watanuki. 2008. Forage fish of the Pacific Rim as revealed by diet of a piscivorous seabird: synchrony and relationships with sea surface temperature. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 65: 1610–1622.

Sears, J. and S.A. Hatch. 2008. Rhinoceros auklet developmental responses to food limitation: an experimental study. Condor 110: 709–717.

Sears, J., S.A. Hatch, and D.M. O'Brien. 2008. Disentangling effects of growth and nutritional status on seabird stable isotope ratios. Oecologia 153: 11–18.

White, J., R.H. Wagner, F. Helfenstein, S.A. Hatch, H. Mulard, L.C. Naves, and E. Danchin. 2008. Multiple deleterious effects of experimentally aged sperm in a monogamous bird. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 105: 13947–13952.

Mulard, H., T. Aubin, J.F. White, S.A. Hatch, and E. Danchin. 2008. Experimental evidence of vocal recognition in young and adult black-legged kittiwakes. Anim. Behav. 76: 1855–1861.

Guzzetti, B.M., S.L. Talbot, D.F. Tessler, V.A. Gill, and E.C. Murphy. 2008. Secrets in the eyes of black oystercatchers: a new sexing technique. J. Field Ornithol. 79: 215–223.

Leclaire, S., H. Mulard, R.H. Wagner, S.A. Hatch, and E. Danchin. 2009. Can kittiwakes smell? Experimental evidence in a larid species. Ibis 151: 584–597.

Suryan, R.M., V.S. Saba, B.P. Wallace, S.A. Hatch, M. Frederiksen, and S. Wanless. 2009. Environmental forcing on life history strategies: multi-trophic level response at ocean basin scales. Prog. Oceanogr. 81: 214–222.

Hatch, S.A., G.J. Robertson, and P.H. Baird. 2009. Black-legged kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla). In The Birds of North America, No. 92. The Birds of North America Online, Philadelphia, PA.

Mulard, H., E. Danchin, S.L. Talbot, A.M. Ramey, S.A. Hatch, J.F. White, F. Helfenstein, and R.H. Wagner. 2009. Evidence that pairing with genetically similar mates is maladaptive in a monogamous bird. BMC Evol. Biol. 9: 147–158.

Kotzerka, J., S.A. Hatch, and S. Garthe. 2010. GPS tracking devices reveal foraging strategies of black-legged kittiwakes. J. Ornithol. 151: 459–467.

Kitaysky, A.S., J.F. Piatt, S.A. Hatch, E.V. Kitaiskaia, Z.M. Benowitz-Fredericks, M.T. Shultz, and J.C. Wingfield. 2010. Food availability and population processes: severity of nutritional stress during reproduction predicts survival of long-lived seabirds. Funct. Ecol. 24: 625–637.

White, J., P. Mirleau, E. Danchin, H. Mulard, S.A. Hatch, P. Hebb, and R.H. Wagner. 2010. Sexually transmitted bacteria affect female cloacal assemblages in a wild bird. Ecol. Lett. 13: 1515–1524.

White, J., S. Leclaire, M. Kriloff, H. Mulard, S.A. Hatch, and E. Danchin. 2010. Sustained increase in food supplies reduces broodmate aggression in black-legged kittiwakes. Anim. Behav. 79: 1095–1100.

Johnson, M., P. Clarkson, M.I. Goldstein, S.M. Haig, R.B. Lanctot, D.F. Tessler, and D. Zwiefelhofer. 2010. Seasonal movements, winter range use, and migratory connectivity of the black oystercatcher. Condor 112: 731–743.

Hatch, S.A., V.A. Gill, and D.M. Mulcahy. 2011. Migration and wintering areas of glaucous-winged gulls from south-central Alaska. Condor 113: 340–351.

Kotzerka, J., S.A. Hatch, and S. Garthe. 2011. Evidence for foraging-site fidelity and individual foraging behavior of pelagic cormorants rearing chicks in the Gulf of Alaska. Condor 113: 80–88.

Leclaire, S., T. Merkling, C. Raynaud, G. Giacinti, J.-M. Bessière, S.A. Hatch, and É. Danchin. 2011. An individual and a sex odor signature in kittiwakes? Study of the semiochemical composition of preen secretion and preen down feathers. Naturwissenschaften 98: 615–624.

Hatch, S.A., V.A. Gill, and D.M. Mulcahy. 2011. Migration and wintering sites of pelagic cormorants determined by satellite telemetry. J. Field Ornithol. 82: 269–278.

Leclaire, S., V. Bourret, R.H. Wagner, S.A. Hatch, F. Helfenstein, O. Chastel, and E. Danchin. 2011. Behavioral and physiological response to male handicap in chick-rearing black-legged kittiwakes. Behav. Ecol. 22: 1156–1165.

Leclaire, S., T. Merkling, C. Raynaud, H. Mulard, J.-M. Bessière, E. Lhuillier, S.A. Hatch, and É. Danchin. 2011. Semiochemical compounds of preen secretion reflect genetic make-up in a seabird species. Proc. R. Soc. B. doi:10.1098/rspb.2011.1611.

Leclaire, S., J. White, M. Battude, R.H. Wagner, S.A. Hatch, and E. Danchin. 2011. Integument coloration signals reproductive success, heterozygosity, and antioxidant levels in chick-rearing black-legged kittiwakes. Naturwissenschaften 98: 773–782.

Merkling, T., S. Leclaire, E. Danchin, E. Lhuillier, R.H. Wagner, J. White, S.A. Hatch, and P. Blanchard. 2012. Food availability and offspring sex in a genetically monogamous seabird: insights from an experimental approach. Behav. Ecol. 23: 751–758.

Schultner, J., A.S. Kitaysky, J. Welcker, and S.A. Hatch. 2013. Fat or lean: adjustment of endogenous energy stores to predictable and unpredictable changes in allostatic load. Funct. Ecol. 23: 45–55.

Hatch, S.A. 2013. Kittiwake diets and chick production signal a 2008 regime shift in the northeast Pacific. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 477: 271–284.

Schultner, J., A.S. Kitaysky, G.W. Gabrielsen, S.A. Hatch, and C. Bech. 2013. Differential reproductive responses to stress reveal the role of life history strategies within a species. Proc. R. Soc. B. 280: 20132090.

Abbott, C.L., R.L. Millikin, M.J. Hipfner, S. Hatch, M. Ito, Y. Watanuki, and T.M. Burg. 2014. Genetic structure of rhinoceros auklets, Cerorhinca monocerata, breeding in British Columbia, Alaska, and Japan. Mar. Biol. 161: 275–283.

Leclaire, S., P. Blanchard, J. White, S.A. Hatch, and E. Danchin. 2013. Symmetry of black wingtips is related to clutch size and integument coloration in black-legged kittiwakes. Auk 130: 541–547.

Elliott, K.H., R.E. Ricklefs, A.J. Gaston, S.A. Hatch, J.R. Speakman, and G.K. Davoren. 2013. High flight costs, but low dive costs, in auks support the biomechanical hypothesis for flightlessness in penguins. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. (USA): 10.1073/pnas.1304838110.

Benowitz-Fredericks, Z.M., A.S. Kitaysky, J. Welker, and S.A. Hatch. 2013. Effects of food availability on yolk androgen deposition in the black-legged kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla), a seabird with facultative brood reduction. PLoS ONE: 10.1371/journal.pone.0062949.

Elliott, K.H., J. Welcker, A.J. Gaston, S.A. Hatch, V. Palace, J.F. Hare, J.R. Speakman, and W.G. Anderson. 2013. Thyroid hormones correlate with resting metabolic rate, not daily energy expenditure, in two charadriiform seabirds. Biol. Open 2: 580–586.

Vincenzi, S., S. Hatch, M. Mangel, and A. Kitaysky. 2013. Food availability affects onset of reproduction in a long-lived seabird. Proc. R. Soc. B 280: 20130554.

Leclaire, S., W.F.D. van Dongen, S. Voccia, T. Merkling, C. Ducamp, S.A. Hatch, P. Blanchard, E. Danchin, and R.H. Wagner. 2014. Preen secretions encode information on MHC similarity in certain sex-dyads in a monogamous seabird. Sci. Rep. 4: 6920.

Will, A.P., Y. Suzuki, K.H. Elliott, S.A. Hatch, Y. Watanuki, and A.S. Kitaysky. 2014. Feather corticosterone reveals developmental stress in seabirds. J. Exp. Biol. 217: 2371–2376.

Merkling, T., O. Chastel, P. Blanchard, C. Trouve, S.A. Hatch, and E. Danchin. 2014. Physiological and fitness correlates of experimentally altered hatching asynchrony magnitude in chicks of a wild seabird. Gen. Comp. Endocrinol. 198: 32–38.

Merkling, T., L. Agdere, E. Albert, R. Durieux, S.A. Hatch, E. Danchin, and P. Blanchard. 2014. Is natural hatching asynchrony optimal? An experimental investigation of sibling competition patterns in a facultatively siblicidal seabird. Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 68: 309–319.

Welker, J., J.R. Speakman, K.H. Elliott, S.A. Hatch, and A.S. Kitaysky. 2014. Resting and daily energy expenditures during reproduction are adjusted in opposite directions in free-living birds. Funct. Ecol. 29: 250–258.

Elliott, K.H., L.S. Chivers, L. Bessey, A.J. Gaston, S.A. Hatch, A. Kato, O. Osborne, Y. Ropert-Coudert, J.R. Speakman, and J.F. Hare. 2014. Windscapes shape seabird instantaneous energy costs but adult behavior buffers impact on offspring. Mov. Ecol. 2: 17.

Elliott, K.H., K.M. O'Reilly, S.A. Hatch, A.J. Gaston, J.F. Hare, and W.G. Anderson. 2014. The prudent parent meets old age: a high stress response in very old seabirds supports the terminal restraint hypothesis. Horm. Behav. 66: 828–837.

Leclaire, S., V. Bourret, P. Blanchard, C. de Franceschi, T. Merkling, S.A. Hatch, and É. Danchin. 2015. Carotenoids increase immunity and sex specifically affect color and redox homeostasis in a monochromatic seabird. Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. doi: 10.1007/s00265-015-1922-0.

Merkling, T., J. Welcker, M. Hewison, S.A. Hatch, A.S. Kitaysky, J.R. Speakman, E. Danchin, and P. Blanchard. 2015. Identifying the selective pressures underlying offspring sex-ratio adjustments: a case study in a wild seabird. Behav. Ecol. 26: 916–925.

Vincenzi, S., S. Hatch, T. Merkling, and A.S. Kitaysky. 2015. Carry-over effects of food supplementation on recruitment and breeding performance of long-lived seabirds. Proc. R. Soc. B 282: 20150762.

Will, A., Y. Watanuki, D.M. Kikuchi, N. Sato, M. Ito, M. Callahan, K. Wynne-Edwards, S. Hatch, K. Elliott, L. Slater, A. Takahashi, and A. Kitaysky. 2015. Feather corticosterone reveals stress associated with dietary changes in a breeding seabird. Ecol. Evol. doi: 10.1002/ece3.1694.

Chivers, L.S., S.A. Hatch, and K.H. Elliott. 2016. Accelerometry reveals an impact of short-term tagging on seabird activity budgets. Condor 118: 159–168.

Stothart, M.R., K.H. Elliott, T. Wood, S.A. Hatch, and J.R. Speakman. 2016. Counting calories in cormorants: dynamic body acceleration predicts daily energy expenditure measured in pelagic cormorants. J. Exp. Biol. 219: 2192–2200.

Merkling, T., C. Perrot, F. Helfenstein, J.-B. Ferdy, L. Gaillard, E. Lefol, E. Voisin, S.A. Hatch, E. Danchin, and P. Blanchard. 2016. Maternal effects as drivers of sibling competition in a parent–offspring conflict context? An experimental test. Ecol. Evol. 6: 3699–3710.

Young, R.C., J. Welcker, C.P. Barger, S.A. Hatch, T. Merkling, E.V. Kitaiskaia, M.F. Haussmann, and A.S. Kitaysky. 2017. Effects of developmental conditions on growth, stress and telomeres in black-legged kittiwake chicks. Mol. Ecol. 26: 3572–3584.

Sydeman, W.J., J.F. Piatt, S.A. Thompson, M. García-Reyes, S.A. Hatch, M.L. Arimitsu, L. Slater, J.C. Williams, N.A. Rojek, S.G. Zador, and H.M. Renner. 2017. Puffins reveal contrasting relationships between forage fish and ocean climate in the North Pacific. Fish. Oceanogr. 26: 379–395.

Merkling, T., P. Blanchard, O. Chastel, G. Glauser, A. Vallat-Michel, S. Hatch, E. Danchin, and F. Helfenstein. 2017. Reproductive effort and oxidative stress: effects of offspring sex and number on the physiological state of a long-lived bird. Funct. Ecol. 31: 1201–1209.

Piatt, J.F., M.L. Arimitsu, W.J. Sydeman, S.A. Thompson, H. Renner, S. Zador, D. Douglas, S. Hatch, A. Kettle, and J. Williams. 2018. Biogeography of pelagic food webs in the North Pacific. Fish. Oceanogr. 27: 366–380.

Cunningham, J., K. Elliott, K. Cottenie, S. Hatch, and S. Jacobs. 2018. Individual foraging location, but not dietary, specialization: implications for rhinoceros auklets as samplers of forage fish. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 605: 225–240.

Merkling, T., S. Hatch, S. Leclaire, E. Danchin, and P. Blanchard. 2019. Offspring sex-ratio and environmental conditions in a seabird with sex-specific rearing costs: a long-term experimental approach. Evol. Ecol. 33. doi: 10.1007/s10682-019-09983-2.

van Dongen, W., J. White, H. Brandl, S. Leclaire, S. Hatch, E. Danchin, and R. Wagner. 2019. Experimental evidence of a sexually transmitted infection in a wild vertebrate, the black-legged kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla). Biol. J. Linn. Soc. 127. doi: 10.1093/biolinnean/blz009.

Patterson, A., H. Gilchrist, L. Chivers, S. Hatch, and K. Elliott. 2019. A comparison of techniques for classifying behavior from accelerometers for two species of seabird. Ecol. Evol. 9. doi: 10.1002/ece3.4740.

Brown, K., A.G. Jimenez, S. Whelan, K. Lalla, S.A. Hatch, and K.H. Elliott. 2019. Muscle fiber structure in an aging long-lived seabird, the black-legged kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla). J. Morphol. 280: 1061–1070.

Collins, S.M., S.A. Hatch, K.H. Elliott, and S.R. Jacobs. 2019. Boldness, mate choice and reproductive success in Rissa tridactyla. Anim. Behav. 154: 67–74.

Thompson, S.A., M. García-Reyes, W.J. Sydeman, M.L. Arimitsu, S.A. Hatch, and J.F. Piatt. 2019. Effects of ocean climate on the length and condition of forage fish in the Gulf of Alaska. Fish. Oceanogr. 28: 658–671.

Maxime, P., P. Blanchard, E. Danchin, S.A. Hatch, F. Helfenstein, H. Mulard, J. White, S. Leclaire, and R.H. Wagner. 2019. Behavioural avoidance of sperm ageing depends on genetic similarity of mates in a monogamous seabird. Biol. J. Linn. Soc. 128: 170–180.

Leclaire, S., V. Bourret, M. Pineaux, P. Blanchard, E. Danchin, and S.A. Hatch. 2019. Red coloration varies with dietary carotenoid access and nutritional condition in kittiwakes. J. Exp. Biol. 222: jeb210237.

Pineaux, M., T. Merkling, E. Danchin, S. Hatch, D. Duneau, P. Blanchard, and S. Leclaire. 2020. Sex and hatching order modulate the association between MHC-II diversity and fitness in early-life stages of a wild seabird. Mol. Ecol. 29: 3316–3329.

Sun, A., S. Whelan, S.A. Hatch, and K.H. Elliott. 2020. Tags below three percent of body mass increase nest abandonment by rhinoceros auklets, but handling impacts decline as breeding progresses. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 643: 173–181.

Aleksieva, A.A., J.R. Treberg, A.W. Diamond, S.A. Hatch, and K.H. Elliott. 2020. Foot web pentosidine does not covary strongly with age in four species of wild seabirds. Exp. Gerontol. 132: 110833.

Whelan, S., S.A. Hatch, D.B. Irons, A. McKnight, and K.H. Elliott. 2020. Increased summer food supply decreases non-breeding movement in black-legged kittiwakes. Biol. Lett. 16: 20190725.

Collins, P., J. Green, K. Elliott, P. Shaw, L. Chivers, S.A. Hatch, and L. Halsey. 2020. Coping with the commute: behavioural responses to wind conditions in a foraging seabird. J. Avian Biol. 51. doi: 10.1111/jav.02057.

Osborne, O.E., P.D. O'Hara, S. Whelan, P. Zandbergen, S.A. Hatch, and K.H. Elliott. 2020. Breeding seabirds increase foraging range in response to an extreme marine heatwave. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 646. doi: 10.3354/meps13392.

Hipfner, J.M., et al. 2020. Geolocator tagging links distributions in the non-breeding season to population genetic structure in a sentinel North Pacific seabird. PLoS One 15: e0240056.

Lalla, K.M., S. Whelan, K. Brown, A. Patterson, A.G. Jimenez, S.A. Hatch, and K.H. Elliott. 2020. Accelerometry predicts muscle ultrastructure and flight capabilities in a wild bird. J. Exp. Biol. 223: jeb234104.

Immer, A., T. Merkling, O. Chastel, S.A. Hatch, E. Danchin, P. Blanchard, and S. Leclaire. 2021. Spying on your neighbours? Social information affects timing of breeding and stress hormone levels in a colonial seabird. Evol. Ecol. 35: 1–19.

Pineaux, M., T. Merkling, E. Danchin, S.A. Hatch, S. Leclaire, and P. Blanchard. 2021. MHC-II distance between parents predicts sex allocation decisions in a genetically monogamous bird. Behav. Ecol., arab130.

Whelan, S., S.A. Hatch, Z.M. Benowitz-Fredericks, C. Parenteau, O. Chastel, and K.H. Elliott. 2021. The effects of food supply on reproductive hormones and timing of reproduction in an income-breeding seabird. Horm. Behav. 127: 104874.

Shoji, A., K.H. Elliott, Y. Watanuki, N. Basu, S. Whelan, J. Cunningham, S. Hatch, et al. 2021. Geolocators link marine mercury with levels in wild seabirds throughout their annual cycle. Environ. Pollut. 284: 117035.

Albert, C., H.H. Helgason, M. Brault-Favrou, G.J. Robertson, S. Descamps, and 50 co-authors. 2021. Seasonal variation of mercury contamination in Arctic seabirds: a pan-Arctic assessment. Sci. Total Environ. 750: 142201.

Suryan, R.M., M.L. Arimitsu, H.A. Coletti, R.R. Hopcroft, M.R. Lindeberg, S.J. Barbeaux, and 47 co-authors. 2021. Ecosystem response persists after a prolonged marine heatwave. Sci. Rep. 11: 6235.

Arimitsu, M.L., J.F. Piatt, S. Hatch, R.M. Suryan, S. Batten, M.A. Bishop, R.W. Campbell, et al. 2021. Heatwave-induced synchrony within forage fish portfolio disrupts energy flow to top pelagic predators. Glob. Change Biol. 27: 1859–1878.

Sydeman, W.J., D.S. Schoeman, S.A. Thompson, B.A. Hoover, M. García-Reyes, F. Daunt, P. Agnew, and 40 co-authors. 2021. Hemispheric asymmetry in ocean change and the productivity of ecosystem sentinels. Science 372: 980–983.

Pineaux, M., T. Merkling, E. Danchin, S.A. Hatch, S. Leclaire, and P. Blanchard. 2021. MHC-II distance between parents predicts sex allocation decisions in a genetically monogamous bird. Behav. Ecol. 33: 245–251.

Sauve, D., A. Charmantier, S.A. Hatch, and V.L. Friesen. 2022. Environmental conditions variably affect growth across the breeding season in a subarctic seabird. Oecologia 198: 307–318.

Leclaire, S., M. Pineaux, P. Blanchard, J. White, and S.A. Hatch. 2022. Microbiota composition and diversity of multiple body sites vary according to reproductive performance in a seabird. Mol. Ecol. doi: 10.1111/mec.16398.

Benowitz-Fredericks, Z.M., L.M. Lacey, S. Whelan, A.P. Will, S.A. Hatch, and A.S. Kitaysky. 2022. Telomere length correlates with physiological and behavioural responses of a long-lived seabird to an ecologically relevant challenge. Proc. R. Soc. B 289: 20220139.

Tremblay, F., S. Whelan, E.S. Choy, S.A. Hatch, and K.H. Elliott. 2022. Resting costs too: the relative importance of active and resting energy expenditure in a sub-arctic seabird. J. Exp. Biol. 225: jeb243548.

Kahane-Rapport, S.R., S. Whelan, J. Ammendolia, S.A. Hatch, K.H. Elliott, and S. Jacobs. 2022. Food supply and individual quality influence seabird energy expenditure and reproductive success. Oecologia. doi.org/10.1007/s00442-022-05191-y.

Whelan, S., S.A. Hatch, A.J. Gaston, H.G. Gilchrist, and K.H. Elliott. 2022. Opposite, but insufficient, phenological responses to climate in two circumpolar seabirds: relative roles of phenotypic plasticity and selection. Funct. Ecol. doi: 10.1111/1365-2435.14064.

Schaefer, A.L., K.B. Gorman, and M.A. Bishop. 2022. Light-level geolocation reveals the short-distance nonbreeding movements and distribution of tufted puffins throughout the Northeast Pacific Ocean. Front. Mar. Sci. 9: 999461.

Sauve, D., V.L. Friesen, S.A. Hatch, K.H. Elliott, and A. Charmantier. 2023. Shifting environmental predictors of phenotypes under climate change: a case study of growth in high latitude seabirds. J. Avian Biol. e03062: 1–15.

Sauve, D., A. Charmantier, S.A. Hatch, and V.L. Friesen. 2024. The magnitude of selection on growth varies among years and increases under warming conditions in a subarctic seabird. Evol. Lett. 8: 56–63.

Barracho, T., S.A. Hatch, J. Kotzerka, S. Garthe, H.A. Schraft, S. Whelan, and K.H. Elliott. 2024. Survival costs of reproduction are independent of energy costs in a seabird, the pelagic cormorant. Ecol. Evol. e11414: 1–15.

Pineaux, M., P. Blanchard, L. Ribeiro, S.A. Hatch, and S. Leclaire. 2023. A gull species recognizes MHC-II diversity and dissimilarity using odor cues. Pp. 139–152 in: Benoist S., D. Rekow, M. Keller, and F. Damon (eds.), Chemical Signals in Vertebrates 15.

Schlener, J., K.H. Elliott, S. Whelan, S. Hatch, and M.F. Guigueno. 2023. If it ain't broke, don't fix it: variable foraging behaviour is associated with low kittiwake reproductive success. Anim. Behav. 209: 155–167.

Shoji, A., S. Whelan, J.T. Cunningham, S.A. Hatch, Y. Niizuma, C. Nakajima, and K.H. Elliott. 2023. Ecological niche partitioning in two Pacific puffins. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 709: 125–139.

Sozzoni, M., J. Ferrer Obiol, G. Formenti, A. Tigano, and 25 co-authors. 2023. A chromosome-level reference genome for the black-legged kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla), a declining circumpolar seabird. Genome Biol. Evol. 15: 7244646.

Jackson, L.M., D.-J. Léandri-Breton, S. Whelan, A. Turmaine, S.A. Hatch, D. Grémillet, and K.H. Elliott. 2023. Beyond body condition: experimental evidence that plasma metabolites improve nutritional state measurements in a free-living seabird. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. 285: 111504.

Tremolada, P., F. Saliu, A. Winkler, and 18 co-authors. 2024. Indigo-dyed cellulose fibers and synthetic polymers in surface-feeding seabird chick regurgitates from the Gulf of Alaska. Mar. Poll. Bull. 203: 116401.

Manas, F., M. Pineaux, S. Humann-Guilleminot, S.A. Hatch, P. Blanchard, and S. Leclaire. 2024. Offspring's early-life performance varies with father's sperm quality in a genetically monogamous seabird. Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 28: 118.

Tremblay, F., E.S. Choy, S. Whelan, S. Hatch, and K.H. Elliott. 2024. Time-energy budgets outperform dynamic body acceleration in predicting daily energy expenditure in kittiwakes, and estimate a very low cost of gliding flight relative to flapping flight. J. Exp. Biol. 227: jeb247176.

Benowitz-Fredericks, Z.M., A.P. Will, S.N. Pete, S. Whelan & A.S. Kitaysky. 2024. Corticosterone release in very young siblicidal seabird chicks (Rissa tridactyla) is sensitive to environmental variability and responds rapidly and robustly to external challenges. General and Comparative Endocrinology 335: 114545. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ygcen.2024.114545.

Orben, R.A., A. Peck-Richardson, A. Piggott, J. Lerczak, G. Wilson, J.C. Garwood, and 37 co-authors. 2025. Collaborating with marine birds to monitor the physical environment within coastal marine protected areas. Oceanography. doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2025e115.

Ribeiro, L., P. Blanchard, F. Manas, M. Pineaux, É. Danchin, S.A. Hatch, and S. Leclaire. 2025. An MHC class II supertype confers resistance to a sexually transmitted bacterium in females but not in males in a genetically monogamous seabird. J. Evol. Biol. doi.org/10.1093/jeb/voaf097.

Thel, L., M. Pineaux, L. Ribeiro, E. Danchin, S. Whelan, S.A. Hatch, P. Blanchard, and S. Leclaire. 2025. Major histocompatibility complex class IIB disassortative mate choice in a genetically monogamous seabird. Proc. R. Soc. B Biol. Sci. 292(2052): 20251265.

Benowitz-Fredericks, Z.M., A.P. Will, S.N. Pete, S.M. Walsh, S. Whelan, & A.S. Kitaysky. 2026. Disentangling bidirectional relationships between glucocorticoids and behavior: Experimentally elevated corticosterone levels correlate with rapid, sex-specific changes in food-acquisition behaviors of food-limited seabird chicks. Hormones and Behavior 180: 105918. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yhbeh.2026.105918.