The increasing use of, and visits to, isolated territories by people (especially tourists) enables the investigation of how biodiversity reacts to evolutionarily novel pressures. We explored the behavioural reaction of a breeding seabird species, the Brown Noddy Anous stolidus, to our repeated visits at two study sites in the Chesterfield Islands, a newly classified reserve in the Coral Sea Natural Park. Repeated measures of flight‐initiation distances (FIDs) at three sites and over time suggest that human visitations induced both a spatial phenotypical sorting or learning of individuals and a temporal habituation. In light of the novel ‘Sit and Defend’ mode of avian nest defence, the study finally provides the first dataset of FIDs for this species, and highlights management opportunities that could arise from the replication of such an approach to other breeding seabirds and therefore the conservation of remote island ecosystems.

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航班开始响应反映了人类对远程小岛的短期和长期访问

人们（尤其是游客）对偏远地区的使用和访问不断增加，这使得人们能够研究生物多样性如何应对进化上的新型压力。我们探索了繁殖的海鸟物种布朗结节Anous stolidus的行为反应，我们在切斯特菲尔德群岛（Chesterfield Islands）的两个研究地点进行了反复访问，切斯特菲尔德群岛是珊瑚海自然公园中新近划定的保护区。在三个地点并随时间重复测量飞行起始距离（FID），表明人的来访既引起了个人的空间表型分类或学习，又引起了时间上的习惯。鉴于新颖的“防鸟坐便”模式，该研究最终为该物种提供了首个FID数据集，并强调了这种方法向其他繁殖海鸟的复制可能带来的管理机会。保护偏远岛屿生态系统。