Climate oscillations drive millennial-scale changes in seabird colony size ...

Seabird population size is intimately linked to the physical, chemical, and biological processes of the oceans. Yet, the overall effects of long-term changes in ocean dynamics on seabird colonies are difficult to quantify. Here, we used dated lake sediments to reconstruct ~10,000-years of seabird dy...

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Main Authors: Duda, Matthew, Cyr, Frédéric, Robertson, Gregory, Michelutti, Neal, Meyer-Jacob, Carsten, Hedd, April, Montevecchi, William, Kimpe, Linda, Blais, Jules, Smol, John
Format: Dataset
Language:English
Published: Dryad 2022
Subjects:
FOS Biological sciences
Canada
Newfoundland
North Atlantic
North Atlantic oscillation
Northwest Atlantic
Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.8931zcrsg
https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.8931zcrsg
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Summary:Seabird population size is intimately linked to the physical, chemical, and biological processes of the oceans. Yet, the overall effects of long-term changes in ocean dynamics on seabird colonies are difficult to quantify. Here, we used dated lake sediments to reconstruct ~10,000-years of seabird dynamics in the Northwest Atlantic to determine the influences of Holocene-scale climatic oscillations on colony size. On Baccalieu Island (Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada) – where the world’s largest colony of Leach’s storm-petrel (Hydrobates leucorhous Vieillot 1818) currently breeds – our data track seabird colony growth in response to warming during the Holocene Thermal Maximum (ca. 9,000 to 6,000 BP). From ca. 5,200 BP to the onset of the Little Ice Age (ca. 550 BP), changes in colony size were correlated to variations in the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO). By contrasting the seabird trends from Baccalieu Island to millennial-scale changes of storm-petrel populations from Grand Colombier Island (an island ...

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