Spatiotemporal habitat use by breeding sooty shearwaters Puffinus griseus
International audience Breeding sooty shearwaters Puffinus griseus cycle between long (11 to 14 d) and short (1 to 2 d) foraging bouts at sea, but no information exists on bird behavior during these trips. We tested the hypothesis that shearwaters use these long trips to travel to distant Antarctic...
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ftccsdartic:oai:HAL:hal-00529611v1 2023-05-15T13:59:03+02:00 Spatiotemporal habitat use by breeding sooty shearwaters Puffinus griseus Shaffer, Scott A. Weimerskirch, Henri Scott, Darren Pinaud, David Thompson, David R. Sagar, Paul M. Moller, Henrik Taylor, Graeme A. Foley, David G. Tremblay, Yann Costa, Daniel P. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC) University of California-University of California Centre d'études biologiques de Chizé (CEBC) Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Department of Zoology University of Otago Dunedin, Nouvelle-Zélande National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Wellington (NIWA) National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Christchurch (NIWA) Department of Conservation UMR 212 EME "écosystèmes marins exploités" (EME) Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER)-Université de Montpellier (UM) Hopkins Marine Station Stanford Stanford University 2009-10-28 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00529611 https://doi.org/10.3354/meps07932 en eng HAL CCSD Inter Research info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.3354/meps07932 hal-00529611 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00529611 doi:10.3354/meps07932 ISSN: 0171-8630 EISSN: 1616-1599 Marine Ecology Progress Series https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00529611 Marine Ecology Progress Series, Inter Research, 2009, 391, pp.209-220. ⟨10.3354/meps07932⟩ [SDE]Environmental Sciences info:eu-repo/semantics/article Journal articles 2009 ftccsdartic https://doi.org/10.3354/meps07932 2021-10-17T01:56:57Z International audience Breeding sooty shearwaters Puffinus griseus cycle between long (11 to 14 d) and short (1 to 2 d) foraging bouts at sea, but no information exists on bird behavior during these trips. We tested the hypothesis that shearwaters use these long trips to travel to distant Antarctic waters compared to remaining in local waters. Patterns of habitat use of 28 breeding sooty shearwaters were studied using 6 g archival data loggers that recorded location, environmental temperature, and diving behavior. Dive activity was compared to remotely-sensed environmental data to characterize the habitats visited by shearwaters on long and short trips. Sooty shearwaters traveled predominantly (70% of all long trips) to cold oceanic waters along the Polar Front (mean ± SD, 1970 ± 930 km from colony) on long trips or remained within warmer neritic waters of the New Zealand shelf (515 ± 248 km from colony) on short trips. Diving depths (mean depth 15.9 ± 10.8 m, max depth 69.9 m, n = 2007 dives) were not significantly different between excursion types. Activity patterns suggest that shearwaters commuted between distant foraging grounds (e.g. Polar Front) and the breeding colony and that more than 95% of diving activity occurred during daylight hours. Although shearwaters traveled primarily to Antarctic waters on long trips, occasional trips around New Zealand waters were observed; all but 2 birds were from the northern-most study colony. Oceanic habitats in Antarctic waters were substantially different from neritic habitats around New Zealand, indicating that shearwaters experience dramatically different environmental conditions associated with each excursion type. The ability of sooty shearwaters to use 2 vastly different habitats provides greater flexibility for maximizing resource acquisition during breeding and reduces competition near the colony. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Archive ouverte HAL (Hyper Article en Ligne, CCSD - Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) Antarctic New Zealand Marine Ecology Progress Series 391 209 220 |
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[SDE]Environmental Sciences Shaffer, Scott A. Weimerskirch, Henri Scott, Darren Pinaud, David Thompson, David R. Sagar, Paul M. Moller, Henrik Taylor, Graeme A. Foley, David G. Tremblay, Yann Costa, Daniel P. Spatiotemporal habitat use by breeding sooty shearwaters Puffinus griseus |
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International audience Breeding sooty shearwaters Puffinus griseus cycle between long (11 to 14 d) and short (1 to 2 d) foraging bouts at sea, but no information exists on bird behavior during these trips. We tested the hypothesis that shearwaters use these long trips to travel to distant Antarctic waters compared to remaining in local waters. Patterns of habitat use of 28 breeding sooty shearwaters were studied using 6 g archival data loggers that recorded location, environmental temperature, and diving behavior. Dive activity was compared to remotely-sensed environmental data to characterize the habitats visited by shearwaters on long and short trips. Sooty shearwaters traveled predominantly (70% of all long trips) to cold oceanic waters along the Polar Front (mean ± SD, 1970 ± 930 km from colony) on long trips or remained within warmer neritic waters of the New Zealand shelf (515 ± 248 km from colony) on short trips. Diving depths (mean depth 15.9 ± 10.8 m, max depth 69.9 m, n = 2007 dives) were not significantly different between excursion types. Activity patterns suggest that shearwaters commuted between distant foraging grounds (e.g. Polar Front) and the breeding colony and that more than 95% of diving activity occurred during daylight hours. Although shearwaters traveled primarily to Antarctic waters on long trips, occasional trips around New Zealand waters were observed; all but 2 birds were from the northern-most study colony. Oceanic habitats in Antarctic waters were substantially different from neritic habitats around New Zealand, indicating that shearwaters experience dramatically different environmental conditions associated with each excursion type. The ability of sooty shearwaters to use 2 vastly different habitats provides greater flexibility for maximizing resource acquisition during breeding and reduces competition near the colony. |
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Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC) University of California-University of California Centre d'études biologiques de Chizé (CEBC) Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Department of Zoology University of Otago Dunedin, Nouvelle-Zélande National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Wellington (NIWA) National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Christchurch (NIWA) Department of Conservation UMR 212 EME "écosystèmes marins exploités" (EME) Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER)-Université de Montpellier (UM) Hopkins Marine Station Stanford Stanford University |
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Shaffer, Scott A. Weimerskirch, Henri Scott, Darren Pinaud, David Thompson, David R. Sagar, Paul M. Moller, Henrik Taylor, Graeme A. Foley, David G. Tremblay, Yann Costa, Daniel P. |
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Shaffer, Scott A. Weimerskirch, Henri Scott, Darren Pinaud, David Thompson, David R. Sagar, Paul M. Moller, Henrik Taylor, Graeme A. Foley, David G. Tremblay, Yann Costa, Daniel P. |
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Spatiotemporal habitat use by breeding sooty shearwaters Puffinus griseus |
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Spatiotemporal habitat use by breeding sooty shearwaters Puffinus griseus |
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Spatiotemporal habitat use by breeding sooty shearwaters Puffinus griseus |
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Spatiotemporal habitat use by breeding sooty shearwaters Puffinus griseus |
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spatiotemporal habitat use by breeding sooty shearwaters puffinus griseus |
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ISSN: 0171-8630 EISSN: 1616-1599 Marine Ecology Progress Series https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00529611 Marine Ecology Progress Series, Inter Research, 2009, 391, pp.209-220. ⟨10.3354/meps07932⟩ |
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