{"id":3912,"date":"2026-04-06T13:05:57","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T12:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/smru\/?page_id=3912"},"modified":"2026-04-06T15:37:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T14:37:53","slug":"theme-ii","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/smru\/reports-to-scottish-government\/theme-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Theme II"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\n<h3><span>Theme II \u2013 Harbour seal decline<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span>Two harbour seal decline workshops (August 2012 and April 2014) discussed in some detail the various factors that might be involved in the decline.\u00a0 A number were ruled out, such as pollutants, Phocine Distemper Virus (PDV) and bycatch.\u00a0 This left competition with grey seals as the most likely cause and this is now being followed up and will be addressed under this research theme:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span>harbour seal decline factors<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>harbour seal decline \u2013 vital rates and drivers<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>harbour seal management and mitigation<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span>In addition, recent evidence of predation by grey seals as a potential driver of harbour seal population trends has now been incorporated within this study.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Outputs:<\/li>\n<li>Langley PhD Thesis<\/li>\n<li>Ohter<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Theme II \u2013 Harbour seal decline Two harbour seal decline workshops (August 2012 and April 2014) discussed in some detail the various factors that might be involved in the decline.\u00a0 A number were ruled out, such as pollutants, Phocine Distemper Virus (PDV) and bycatch.\u00a0 This left competition with grey seals as the most likely cause&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":98,"featured_media":0,"parent":145,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"full-width-page.php","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3912","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/smru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/smru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/smru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/smru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/98"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/smru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/smru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3912\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/smru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/smru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}