Transhemispheric ecosystem disservices of pink salmon in a Pacific Ocean macrosystem

Ecological processes at regional geographic scales can be connected to those in far distant locations by teleconnections, or interactions between species and systems far removed from one another. Macrosystem ecology views such interactions as elements of much larger ecosystems than either component....

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Published in:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Main Authors: Springer, Alan M., van Vliet, Gus B., Bool, Natalie, Crowley, Mike, Fullagar, Peter, Lea, Mary-Anne, Monash, Ross, Price, Cassandra, Vertigan, Caitlin, Woehler, Eric J.
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: National Academy of Sciences 2018
Subjects:
PNAS Plus
Pacific
Pink salmon
Online Access:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5984504/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29760093
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1720577115
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Summary:Ecological processes at regional geographic scales can be connected to those in far distant locations by teleconnections, or interactions between species and systems far removed from one another. Macrosystem ecology views such interactions as elements of much larger ecosystems than either component. We have identified a remarkable example of a transhemispheric macrosystem spanning 15,000 kilometers of the Pacific Ocean maintained by a migratory species of seabird that nests in the South Pacific and winters in the North Pacific. It highlights another example in a growing list of ecosystem disservices of an abundant species of North Pacific salmon, and the need to include ecosystem processes at such geographic scales in conservation and management considerations for this northern open ocean.

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