Climate-driven range expansion of a critically endangered top predator in northeast Atlantic waters
Global climate change is driving rapid distribution shifts in marine ecosystems; these are well established for lower trophic levels, but are harder to quantify for migratory top predators. By analysing a 25-year sightings-based dataset, we found evidence for rapid northwards range expansion of the...
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ftpubmed:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:2391175 2023-05-15T17:41:05+02:00 Climate-driven range expansion of a critically endangered top predator in northeast Atlantic waters Wynn, Russell B Josey, Simon A Martin, Adrian P Johns, David G Yésou, Pierre 2007-07-24 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2391175 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17650478 https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2007.0162 en eng The Royal Society http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2391175 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17650478 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2007.0162 © 2007 The Royal Society Research Article Text 2007 ftpubmed https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2007.0162 2013-09-01T22:36:33Z Global climate change is driving rapid distribution shifts in marine ecosystems; these are well established for lower trophic levels, but are harder to quantify for migratory top predators. By analysing a 25-year sightings-based dataset, we found evidence for rapid northwards range expansion of the critically endangered Balearic shearwater Puffinus mauretanicus in northeast Atlantic waters. A 0.6°C sea surface temperature increase in the mid-1990s is interpreted as an underlying controlling factor, while simultaneous northward shifts of plankton and prey fish species suggests a strong bottom-up control. Our results have important conservation implications and provide new evidence for climate-driven regime shift in Atlantic ecosystems. Text Northeast Atlantic PubMed Central (PMC) Biology Letters 3 5 529 532 |
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Global climate change is driving rapid distribution shifts in marine ecosystems; these are well established for lower trophic levels, but are harder to quantify for migratory top predators. By analysing a 25-year sightings-based dataset, we found evidence for rapid northwards range expansion of the critically endangered Balearic shearwater Puffinus mauretanicus in northeast Atlantic waters. A 0.6°C sea surface temperature increase in the mid-1990s is interpreted as an underlying controlling factor, while simultaneous northward shifts of plankton and prey fish species suggests a strong bottom-up control. Our results have important conservation implications and provide new evidence for climate-driven regime shift in Atlantic ecosystems. |
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Climate-driven range expansion of a critically endangered top predator in northeast Atlantic waters |
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Climate-driven range expansion of a critically endangered top predator in northeast Atlantic waters |
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Climate-driven range expansion of a critically endangered top predator in northeast Atlantic waters |
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Climate-driven range expansion of a critically endangered top predator in northeast Atlantic waters |
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Climate-driven range expansion of a critically endangered top predator in northeast Atlantic waters |
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