Multi-colony tracking reveals potential threats to little auks wintering in the North Atlantic from marine pollution and shrinking sea-ice cover
International audience Aim. Extensive development of human activities in combination with ocean warming are rapidly modifying marine habitats in the Arctic and North Atlantic regions. In order to understand the potential impacts on marine biodiversity, there is an urgent need to determine distributi...
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Alle alle conservation biogeography geolocators non-breeding distribution oil pollution seabird [SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology [SDV.BID]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biodiversity [SDV.EE]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Ecology environment |
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International audience Aim. Extensive development of human activities in combination with ocean warming are rapidly modifying marine habitats in the Arctic and North Atlantic regions. In order to understand the potential impacts on marine biodiversity, there is an urgent need to determine distributions and habitat preferences of potentially vulnerable species, and to identify sensitive hotspots that might require particular protection. Our aims were to track one of the most abundant seabirds of the world, the little auk (Alle alle) to provide a large, meta-population scale overview of its non-breeding distribution, and to document potential threats to this species from human activities and other environmental changes.Location. Arctic North Atlantic.Methods. Using light-level geolocators, we investigated the 2010/11 non-breeding distribution of 65 little auks from four major colonies distributed throughout the Arctic North Atlantic. Bird distribution during the moulting, wintering and pre-breeding periods was compared with (1) the extent of the marginal ice zone and (2) the areas covered by the main shipping lanes, and oil and gas activity licences.Results. We identify several hotspots for this species, including two key areas located in the Greenland Sea and off Newfoundland. Crucially, we show that some of these hotspots overlap extensively with areas of intensive human activities, including oil and gas extraction and shipping. As little auks, which spend the major part of their time on the sea surface, are extremely vulnerable to marine pollution, our results emphasize the risk associated with the projected expansion of these activities. Main conclusions. We conclude that management of further human enterprises in the Arctic needs to be based on more thorough risk assessment, requiring a substantial improvement in our knowledge of the distribution of sensitive species. |
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Aarhus University Aarhus Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA) Norwegian Polar Institute Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive (CEFE) Université Paul-Valéry - Montpellier 3 (UPVM)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Centre international d'études supérieures en sciences agronomiques (Montpellier SupAgro)-École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE) Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD France-Sud )-Institut national d’études supérieures agronomiques de Montpellier (Montpellier SupAgro) DST-NRF Centre of Excellence at the Percy FitzPatrick Institute University of Cape Town Department of Biology Trondheim (IBI NTNU) Norwegian University of Science and Technology Trondheim (NTNU) Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)-Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) British Antarctic Survey (BAS) Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Arctic Research Centre |
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Multi-colony tracking reveals potential threats to little auks wintering in the North Atlantic from marine pollution and shrinking sea-ice cover |
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Multi-colony tracking reveals potential threats to little auks wintering in the North Atlantic from marine pollution and shrinking sea-ice cover |
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Multi-colony tracking reveals potential threats to little auks wintering in the North Atlantic from marine pollution and shrinking sea-ice cover |
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Multi-colony tracking reveals potential threats to little auks wintering in the North Atlantic from marine pollution and shrinking sea-ice cover |
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Multi-colony tracking reveals potential threats to little auks wintering in the North Atlantic from marine pollution and shrinking sea-ice cover |
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multi-colony tracking reveals potential threats to little auks wintering in the north atlantic from marine pollution and shrinking sea-ice cover |
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Alle alle Arctic Greenland Greenland Sea little auk Newfoundland North Atlantic Sea ice |
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Alle alle Arctic Greenland Greenland Sea little auk Newfoundland North Atlantic Sea ice |
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ftunmontpellier3:oai:HAL:hal-01099553v1 2024-05-19T07:28:04+00:00 Multi-colony tracking reveals potential threats to little auks wintering in the North Atlantic from marine pollution and shrinking sea-ice cover Fort, Jérôme Moe, Børge Strøm, Hallvard Grémillet, David Welcker, Jorg Schultner, Jannik Jerstad, Kurt Johansen, Kasper Phillips, Richard A. Mosbech, Anders Aarhus University Aarhus Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA) Norwegian Polar Institute Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive (CEFE) Université Paul-Valéry - Montpellier 3 (UPVM)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Centre international d'études supérieures en sciences agronomiques (Montpellier SupAgro)-École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE) Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD France-Sud )-Institut national d’études supérieures agronomiques de Montpellier (Montpellier SupAgro) DST-NRF Centre of Excellence at the Percy FitzPatrick Institute University of Cape Town Department of Biology Trondheim (IBI NTNU) Norwegian University of Science and Technology Trondheim (NTNU) Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)-Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) British Antarctic Survey (BAS) Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Arctic Research Centre 2013-10-01 https://hal.science/hal-01099553 https://hal.science/hal-01099553/document https://hal.science/hal-01099553/file/Fort%20et%20al.%20DDI%202013.pdf https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.12105 en eng HAL CCSD Wiley info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1111/ddi.12105 hal-01099553 https://hal.science/hal-01099553 https://hal.science/hal-01099553/document https://hal.science/hal-01099553/file/Fort%20et%20al.%20DDI%202013.pdf doi:10.1111/ddi.12105 info:eu-repo/semantics/OpenAccess ISSN: 1366-9516 EISSN: 1472-4642 Diversity and Distributions https://hal.science/hal-01099553 Diversity and Distributions, 2013, 19 (10), pp.1322-1332. ⟨10.1111/ddi.12105⟩ Alle alle conservation biogeography geolocators non-breeding distribution oil pollution seabird [SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology [SDV.BID]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biodiversity [SDV.EE]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Ecology environment info:eu-repo/semantics/article Journal articles 2013 ftunmontpellier3 https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.12105 2024-04-22T17:02:29Z International audience Aim. Extensive development of human activities in combination with ocean warming are rapidly modifying marine habitats in the Arctic and North Atlantic regions. In order to understand the potential impacts on marine biodiversity, there is an urgent need to determine distributions and habitat preferences of potentially vulnerable species, and to identify sensitive hotspots that might require particular protection. Our aims were to track one of the most abundant seabirds of the world, the little auk (Alle alle) to provide a large, meta-population scale overview of its non-breeding distribution, and to document potential threats to this species from human activities and other environmental changes.Location. Arctic North Atlantic.Methods. Using light-level geolocators, we investigated the 2010/11 non-breeding distribution of 65 little auks from four major colonies distributed throughout the Arctic North Atlantic. Bird distribution during the moulting, wintering and pre-breeding periods was compared with (1) the extent of the marginal ice zone and (2) the areas covered by the main shipping lanes, and oil and gas activity licences.Results. We identify several hotspots for this species, including two key areas located in the Greenland Sea and off Newfoundland. Crucially, we show that some of these hotspots overlap extensively with areas of intensive human activities, including oil and gas extraction and shipping. As little auks, which spend the major part of their time on the sea surface, are extremely vulnerable to marine pollution, our results emphasize the risk associated with the projected expansion of these activities. Main conclusions. We conclude that management of further human enterprises in the Arctic needs to be based on more thorough risk assessment, requiring a substantial improvement in our knowledge of the distribution of sensitive species. Article in Journal/Newspaper Alle alle Arctic Greenland Greenland Sea little auk Newfoundland North Atlantic Sea ice HAL Portal Paul-Valéry University Montpellier 3 Diversity and Distributions 19 10 1322 1332 |