Oceanic giants dance to atmospheric rhythms: Ephemeral wind‐driven resource tracking by blue whales
Trophic transfer of energy through marine food webs is strongly influenced by prey aggregation and its exploitation by predators. Rapid aggregation of some marine fish and crustacean forage species during wind‐driven coastal upwelling has recently been discovered, motivating the hypothesis that pred...
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ftpubmed:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:9827854 2023-05-15T15:45:08+02:00 Oceanic giants dance to atmospheric rhythms: Ephemeral wind‐driven resource tracking by blue whales Ryan, John P. Benoit‐Bird, Kelly J. Oestreich, William K. Leary, Paul Smith, Kevin B. Waluk, Chad M. Cade, David E. Fahlbusch, James A. Southall, Brandon L. Joseph, John E. Margolina, Tetyana Calambokidis, John DeVogelaere, Andrew Goldbogen, Jeremy A. 2022-10-05 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9827854/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36197736 https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.14116 en eng John Wiley and Sons Inc. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9827854/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36197736 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele.14116 © 2022 The Authors. Ecology Letters published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non‐commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made. CC-BY-NC-ND Ecol Lett Letters Text 2022 ftpubmed https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.14116 2023-01-15T01:54:00Z Trophic transfer of energy through marine food webs is strongly influenced by prey aggregation and its exploitation by predators. Rapid aggregation of some marine fish and crustacean forage species during wind‐driven coastal upwelling has recently been discovered, motivating the hypothesis that predators of these forage species track the upwelling circulation in which prey aggregation occurs. We examine this hypothesis in the central California Current Ecosystem using integrative observations of upwelling dynamics, forage species' aggregation, and blue whale movement. Directional origins of blue whale calls repeatedly tracked upwelling plume circulation when wind‐driven upwelling intensified and aggregation of forage species was heightened. Our findings illustrate a resource tracking strategy by which blue whales may maximize energy gain amid ephemeral foraging opportunities. These findings have implications for the ecology and conservation of diverse predators that are sustained by forage populations whose behaviour is responsive to episodic environmental dynamics. Text Blue whale PubMed Central (PMC) Ecology Letters 25 11 2435 2447 |
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Trophic transfer of energy through marine food webs is strongly influenced by prey aggregation and its exploitation by predators. Rapid aggregation of some marine fish and crustacean forage species during wind‐driven coastal upwelling has recently been discovered, motivating the hypothesis that predators of these forage species track the upwelling circulation in which prey aggregation occurs. We examine this hypothesis in the central California Current Ecosystem using integrative observations of upwelling dynamics, forage species' aggregation, and blue whale movement. Directional origins of blue whale calls repeatedly tracked upwelling plume circulation when wind‐driven upwelling intensified and aggregation of forage species was heightened. Our findings illustrate a resource tracking strategy by which blue whales may maximize energy gain amid ephemeral foraging opportunities. These findings have implications for the ecology and conservation of diverse predators that are sustained by forage populations whose behaviour is responsive to episodic environmental dynamics. |
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Ryan, John P. Benoit‐Bird, Kelly J. Oestreich, William K. Leary, Paul Smith, Kevin B. Waluk, Chad M. Cade, David E. Fahlbusch, James A. Southall, Brandon L. Joseph, John E. Margolina, Tetyana Calambokidis, John DeVogelaere, Andrew Goldbogen, Jeremy A. |
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Oceanic giants dance to atmospheric rhythms: Ephemeral wind‐driven resource tracking by blue whales |
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