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Nina J. Karnovsky

Nina J. Karnovsky

Overview

Nina J. Karnovsky is affiliated with Pomona College in the United States and is active in the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their research primarily focuses on avian ecology and behavior, animal behavior and reproduction, as well as aspects of Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics.

The main areas of study covered by their work include:

  • Avian ecology and behavior
  • Animal Behavior and Reproduction
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Climate variability and models
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Fish Ecology and Management Studies

Karnovsky's work spans several subfields of study such as Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

They have contributed to research published in the following venues:

  • Scientific Reports
  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
  • Frontiers in Bird Science

Their recent publications include:

  • "Consequences of Atlantification on a Zooplanktivorous Arctic Seabird," 2022, Frontiers in Marine Science
  • "Duration of female parental care and their survival in the little auk Alle alle - are these two traits linked?", 2020, Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
  • "Post-foraging in-colony behaviour of a central-place foraging seabird," 2022, Scientific Reports
  • "Author Correction: Post-foraging in-colony behaviour of a central-place foraging seabird," 2022, Scientific Reports
  • "A decade of diving: responses of Cassin's auklets to variable foraging conditions in the California Current System," 2025, Frontiers in Bird Science

Frequent collaborators in their research include Katarzyna Wojczulanis-Jakubas, Dariusz Jakubas, Dorota Kidawa, Antoine Grissot, and Marion Devogel, with several coauthored papers together.

Best Publications

  • A stable isotope (δ13C, δ15N) model for the North Water food web: implications for evaluating trophodynamics and the flow of energy and contaminants

    Keith A Hobson;Aaron Fisk;Nina Karnovsky;Meike Holst

  • Microplastic pollution in the Greenland Sea: Background levels and selective contamination of planktivorous diving seabirds.

    F. Amélineau;D. Bonnet;O. Heitz;V. Mortreux

  • High Latitude Changes in Ice Dynamics and Their Impact on Polar Marine Ecosystems

    Mark A. Moline;Nina J. Karnovsky;Zachary Brown;George J. Divoky

  • Foraging behavior of little auks in a heterogeneous environment

    Nina J. Karnovsky;Wojciech Walkusz;Agnieszka Beszczy

  • Integrating Stomach Content and Stable Isotope Analyses to Quantify the Diets of Pygoscelid Penguins

    Michael J. Polito;Wayne Z. Trivelpiece;Nina J. Karnovsky;Elizabeth Ng

  • Climate change and phenological responses of two seabird species breeding in the high-Arctic

    Børge Moe;Lech Stempniewicz;Dariusz Jakubas;Frédéric Angelier

  • Organochlorine contaminants in seven species of Arctic seabirds from northern Baffin Bay

    Andrea H. Buckman;Ross J. Norstrom;Keith A. Hobson;Nina J. Karnovsky

  • Seasonal changes in diets of seabirds in the North Water Polynya: a multiple-indicator approach

    Nina J. Karnovsky;Keith A. Hobson;Sara J. Iverson;George L. Hunt

  • Advection in polar and sub-polar environments: Impacts on high latitude marine ecosystems

    George L. Hunt;Kenneth F. Drinkwater;Kevin Arrigo;Jørgen Berge

  • Chlordane components and metabolites in seven species of Arctic seabirds from the Northwater Polynya: relationships with stable isotopes of nitrogen and enantiomeric fractions of chiral components

    A.T Fisk;J Moisey;K.A Hobson;N.J Karnovsky

  • Flexible foraging strategies of gentoo penguins Pygoscelis papua over 5 years in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica

    Aileen K. Miller;Nina J. Karnovsky;Wayne Z. Trivelpiece

  • Flexibility in the bimodal foraging strategy of a high Arctic alcid, the little auk Alle alle

    Jorg Welcker;Ann M. A. Harding;Nina J. Karnovsky;Harald Steen

  • From lavage to lipids: Estimating diets of seabirds

    Nina J. Karnovsky;Keith A. Hobson;Sara J. Iverson

  • The impact of different hydrographic conditions and zooplankton communities on provisioning Little Auks along the West coast of Spitsbergen

    Slawomir Kwasniewski;Marta Gluchowska;Dariusz Jakubas;Katarzyna Wojczulanis-Jakubas

  • Flexibility in the parental effort of an Arctic-breeding seabird

    Ann M.A. Harding;Alexander S. Kitaysky;Margaret E. Hall;Jorg Welcker

  • Little auks buffer the impact of current Arctic climate change

    David Grémillet;Jorg Welcker;Nina J. Karnovsky;Wojciech Walkusz;Wojciech Walkusz

  • Estimation of carbon flux to dovekies (Alle alle) in the North Water

    Nina J Karnovsky;George L Hunt

  • Foraging distributions of little auks Alle alle across the Greenland Sea: implications of present and future Arctic climate change

    Nina Karnovsky;Ann Harding;Heli Routti

  • Interannual changes in zooplankton on the West Spitsbergen Shelf in relation to hydrography and their consequences for the diet of planktivorous seabirds

    Slawomir Kwasniewski;Marta Gluchowska;Wojciech Walkusz;Wojciech Walkusz;Nina J. Karnovsky

  • food web: implications for evaluating trophodynamics and the flow of energy and contaminants

    Keith A. Hobson;Aaron Fisk;Nina Karnovsky;Meike Holst

Frequent Co-Authors

Wojciech Walkusz
Wojciech Walkusz Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Dariusz Jakubas
Dariusz Jakubas University of Gdańsk
Keith A. Hobson
Keith A. Hobson University of Western Ontario
David Grémillet
David Grémillet Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Harald Steen
Harald Steen Oslo University Hospital
George L. Hunt
George L. Hunt University of Washington
Lech Stempniewicz
Lech Stempniewicz University of Gdańsk
Aaron T. Fisk
Aaron T. Fisk University of Windsor
Geir W. Gabrielsen
Geir W. Gabrielsen Norwegian Polar Institute
Alexander S. Kitaysky
Alexander S. Kitaysky University of Alaska Fairbanks

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