Climate change impact on Balearic shearwater through a trophic cascade
A recent study showed that a critically endangered migratory predator species, the Balearic shearwater Puffinus mauretanicus, rapidly expanded northwards in northeast Atlantic waters after the mid-1990s. As a significant positive correlation was found between the long-term changes in the abundance o...
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ftpubmed:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:3169060 2023-05-15T17:41:23+02:00 Climate change impact on Balearic shearwater through a trophic cascade Luczak, C. Beaugrand, G. Jaffré, M. Lenoir, S. 2011-10-23 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3169060 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21508020 https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2011.0225 en eng The Royal Society http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3169060 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21508020 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2011.0225 This journal is © 2011 The Royal Society Community Ecology Text 2011 ftpubmed https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2011.0225 2013-09-03T19:31:09Z A recent study showed that a critically endangered migratory predator species, the Balearic shearwater Puffinus mauretanicus, rapidly expanded northwards in northeast Atlantic waters after the mid-1990s. As a significant positive correlation was found between the long-term changes in the abundance of this seabird and sea temperature around the British Isles, it was hypothesized that the link between the biogeographic shift and temperature occurred through the food web. Here, we test this conjecture and reveal concomitant changes in a regional index of sea temperature, plankton (total calanoid copepod), fish prey (anchovy and sardine) and the Balearic shearwater for the period 1980–2003. All three trophic levels exhibit a significant shift detected between 1994 and 1996. Our findings therefore support the assertion of both a direct and an indirect effect of climate change on the spatial distribution of post-breeding Balearic shearwater through a trophic cascade. Text Northeast Atlantic PubMed Central (PMC) Biology Letters 7 5 702 705 |
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A recent study showed that a critically endangered migratory predator species, the Balearic shearwater Puffinus mauretanicus, rapidly expanded northwards in northeast Atlantic waters after the mid-1990s. As a significant positive correlation was found between the long-term changes in the abundance of this seabird and sea temperature around the British Isles, it was hypothesized that the link between the biogeographic shift and temperature occurred through the food web. Here, we test this conjecture and reveal concomitant changes in a regional index of sea temperature, plankton (total calanoid copepod), fish prey (anchovy and sardine) and the Balearic shearwater for the period 1980–2003. All three trophic levels exhibit a significant shift detected between 1994 and 1996. Our findings therefore support the assertion of both a direct and an indirect effect of climate change on the spatial distribution of post-breeding Balearic shearwater through a trophic cascade. |
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Climate change impact on Balearic shearwater through a trophic cascade |
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Climate change impact on Balearic shearwater through a trophic cascade |
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Climate change impact on Balearic shearwater through a trophic cascade |
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