Timing of ice retreat alters seabird abundances and distributions in the southeast Bering Sea.
Timing of spring sea-ice retreat shapes the southeast Bering Sea food web. We compared summer seabird densities and average bathymetry depth distributions between years with early (typically warm) and late (typically cold) ice retreat. Averaged over all seabird species, densities in early-ice-retrea...
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ftcdlib:oai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt5fc0v876 2023-06-11T04:09:34+02:00 Timing of ice retreat alters seabird abundances and distributions in the southeast Bering Sea. Renner, Martin Salo, Sigrid Eisner, Lisa B Ressler, Patrick H Ladd, Carol Kuletz, Kathy J Santora, Jarrod A Piatt, John F Drew, Gary S Hunt, George L 20160276 2016-09-01 application/pdf https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5fc0v876 unknown eScholarship, University of California qt5fc0v876 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5fc0v876 public Biology letters, vol 12, iss 9 Animals Birds Gadiformes Copepoda Euphausiacea Zooplankton Ecosystem Food Chain Seasons Ice Cover Arctic Regions Pacific Ocean climate change fisheries sea ice seabirds at sea walleye pollock Biological Sciences Evolutionary Biology article 2016 ftcdlib 2023-05-08T17:56:17Z Timing of spring sea-ice retreat shapes the southeast Bering Sea food web. We compared summer seabird densities and average bathymetry depth distributions between years with early (typically warm) and late (typically cold) ice retreat. Averaged over all seabird species, densities in early-ice-retreat-years were 10.1% (95% CI: 1.1-47.9%) of that in late-ice-retreat-years. In early-ice-retreat-years, surface-foraging species had increased numbers over the middle shelf (50-150 m) and reduced numbers over the shelf slope (200-500 m). Pursuit-diving seabirds showed a less clear trend. Euphausiids and the copepod Calanus marshallae/glacialis were 2.4 and 18.1 times less abundant in early-ice-retreat-years, respectively, whereas age-0 walleye pollock Gadus chalcogrammus near-surface densities were 51× higher in early-ice-retreat-years. Our results suggest a mechanistic understanding of how present and future changes in sea-ice-retreat timing may affect top predators like seabirds in the southeastern Bering Sea. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Bering Sea Climate change Sea ice Zooplankton University of California: eScholarship Arctic Bering Sea Pacific |
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Animals Birds Gadiformes Copepoda Euphausiacea Zooplankton Ecosystem Food Chain Seasons Ice Cover Arctic Regions Pacific Ocean climate change fisheries sea ice seabirds at sea walleye pollock Biological Sciences Evolutionary Biology Renner, Martin Salo, Sigrid Eisner, Lisa B Ressler, Patrick H Ladd, Carol Kuletz, Kathy J Santora, Jarrod A Piatt, John F Drew, Gary S Hunt, George L Timing of ice retreat alters seabird abundances and distributions in the southeast Bering Sea. |
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Animals Birds Gadiformes Copepoda Euphausiacea Zooplankton Ecosystem Food Chain Seasons Ice Cover Arctic Regions Pacific Ocean climate change fisheries sea ice seabirds at sea walleye pollock Biological Sciences Evolutionary Biology |
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Timing of spring sea-ice retreat shapes the southeast Bering Sea food web. We compared summer seabird densities and average bathymetry depth distributions between years with early (typically warm) and late (typically cold) ice retreat. Averaged over all seabird species, densities in early-ice-retreat-years were 10.1% (95% CI: 1.1-47.9%) of that in late-ice-retreat-years. In early-ice-retreat-years, surface-foraging species had increased numbers over the middle shelf (50-150 m) and reduced numbers over the shelf slope (200-500 m). Pursuit-diving seabirds showed a less clear trend. Euphausiids and the copepod Calanus marshallae/glacialis were 2.4 and 18.1 times less abundant in early-ice-retreat-years, respectively, whereas age-0 walleye pollock Gadus chalcogrammus near-surface densities were 51× higher in early-ice-retreat-years. Our results suggest a mechanistic understanding of how present and future changes in sea-ice-retreat timing may affect top predators like seabirds in the southeastern Bering Sea. |
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Article in Journal/Newspaper |
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Renner, Martin Salo, Sigrid Eisner, Lisa B Ressler, Patrick H Ladd, Carol Kuletz, Kathy J Santora, Jarrod A Piatt, John F Drew, Gary S Hunt, George L |
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Renner, Martin Salo, Sigrid Eisner, Lisa B Ressler, Patrick H Ladd, Carol Kuletz, Kathy J Santora, Jarrod A Piatt, John F Drew, Gary S Hunt, George L |
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Renner, Martin |
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Timing of ice retreat alters seabird abundances and distributions in the southeast Bering Sea. |
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Timing of ice retreat alters seabird abundances and distributions in the southeast Bering Sea. |
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Timing of ice retreat alters seabird abundances and distributions in the southeast Bering Sea. |
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Timing of ice retreat alters seabird abundances and distributions in the southeast Bering Sea. |
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Timing of ice retreat alters seabird abundances and distributions in the southeast Bering Sea. |
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timing of ice retreat alters seabird abundances and distributions in the southeast bering sea. |
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Arctic Bering Sea Climate change Sea ice Zooplankton |
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Arctic Bering Sea Climate change Sea ice Zooplankton |
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Biology letters, vol 12, iss 9 |
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