Predicted eelgrass response to sea level rise and its availability to foraging Black Brant in Pacific coast estuaries

• Published in: Ecological Applications
• Main Authors: Shaughnessy, Frank J., Gilkerson, Whelan, Black, Jeffrey M., Ward, David H., Petrie, Mark
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2012
• Subjects: Brant; Morro; Pacific; Branta bernicla; Alaska
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/11-1083.1; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1890%2F11-1083.1; https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1890/11-1083.1

Managers need to predict how animals will respond to habitat redistributions caused by climate change. Our objective was to model the effects of sea level rise on total eelgrass ( Zostera marina ) habitat area and on the amount of that area that is accessible to Brant geese ( Branta bernicla ), spec...