Alexander S. Kitaysky

University of Alaska Fairbanks — United States

Environmental Science · Physical Sciences

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Research Topics

Avian ecology and behavior(57), Animal Behavior and Reproduction(48), Marine animal studies overview(25), Animal Nutrition and Physiology(15), Marine and fisheries research(15)

Publications123 total

Environmentally induced stress affects fitness of bold and shy alike: A long-term study of personality and feather corticosterone in Arctic-breeding kittiwakes.
PubMed·2026
Ecosystems mediate climate impacts on northern hemisphere seabirds
Communications Earth & Environment·2025Open Access
Corticosterone elevation is associated with rapid, sex-specific increases in food-acquisition behaviors in free-living seabird chicks
2025Open Access
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·2024· 1 cited
Corticosterone release in very young siblicidal seabird chicks ( <i>Rissa tridactyla</i> ) is sensitive to environmental variability and responds rapidly and robustly to external challenges
2024Open Access
Spatial distribution of selenium-mercury in Arctic seabirds
Environmental Pollution·2023· 17 citedOpen Access
Effects of cooling on thyroid hormone secretion and growth of eastern bluebird (Sialia sialis) nestlings
General and Comparative Endocrinology·2023
Telomere length correlates with physiological and behavioural responses of a long-lived seabird to an ecologically relevant challenge
Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences·2022· 10 citedOpen Access
Mercury contamination and potential health risks to Arctic seabirds and shorebirds
The Science of The Total Environment·2022· 91 cited
The Designated Shipping Avoidance Area Around St. Lawrence Island, Northern Bering Sea, Is not Sufficient to Protect Foraging Habitat of the Island’s Breeding Seabird Community
Frontiers in Marine Science·2022· 1 citedOpen Access
Translating PUFA omega 6:3 ratios from wild to captive hibernators (Urocitellus parryii) enhances sex-dependent mass-gain without increasing physiological stress indicators
Journal of Comparative Physiology B·2022· 1 citedOpen Access
Cooling increases corticosterone deposition in feathers of eastern bluebird chicks
General and Comparative Endocrinology·2022· 9 cited
Quantitative meta‐analysis reveals no association between mercury contamination and body condition in birds
Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society·2022· 23 cited
R code from Telomere length correlates with physiological and behavioural responses of a long-lived seabird to an ecologically relevant challenge
Figshare·2022Open Access
Marine Heat Wave Increased Variance and Decreased Productivity at Bering Strait during 2015–2016
2021Open Access
Telomere lengths correlate with fitness but assortative mating by telomeres confers no benefit to fledgling recruitment
Scientific Reports·2021· 7 citedOpen Access
The breeding seabird community reveals that recent sea ice loss in the Pacific Arctic does not benefit piscivores and is detrimental to planktivores
Deep Sea Research Part II Topical Studies in Oceanography·2020· 30 cited
Investigation of the 2018 thick-billed murre (Uria lomvia) die-off on St. Lawrence Island rules out food shortage as the cause
Deep Sea Research Part II Topical Studies in Oceanography·2020· 18 citedOpen Access
Seasonal variation of mercury contamination in Arctic seabirds: A pan-Arctic assessment
The Science of The Total Environment·2020· 49 citedOpen Access
Breeding together, wintering an ocean apart: Foraging ecology of the northern Bering Sea thick-billed and common murres in years of contrasting sea-ice conditions
Polar Science·2020· 11 cited
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Frequent Co-authors

John C. Wingfield(9), Scott A. Hatch(9), John F. Piatt(8), Jorg Welcker(8), Rebecca C. Young(7), Geir Wing Gabrielsen(6), Rachael A. Orben(6), Akinori Takahashi(6), Alexis Will(6), Evgenia V. Kitaiskaia(5), David Grémillet(5), Ann M. A. Harding(5), Kyle H. Elliott(5), Yutaka Watanuki(5), Marc D. Romano(4), Michael T. Shultz(4), Heather M. Renner(4), Christopher P. Barger(4), E. Yu. Golubova(3), Z Morgan Benowitz‐Fredericks(3)