Weakening of the subpolar gyre as a key driver of North Atlantic seabird demography: a case study with Brünnich’s guillemots in Svalbard

• Published in: Marine Ecology Progress Series
• Main Authors: Fluhr, J, Strøm, H, Pradel, Roger, Duriez, Olivier, Beaugrand, G., Descamps, S.
• Other Authors: 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), Laboratoire d’Océanologie et de Géosciences (LOG) - UMR 8187 (LOG), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université du Littoral Côte d'Opale (ULCO)-Université de Lille-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD France-Nord )
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2017
• Subjects: Climate change; Adult survival; Subpolar Gyre Index; Winter North Atlantic Oscillation; Sea surface temperature; Uria lomvia; Arctic; Regime shift; Seabirds; [SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology; [SDV.EE.BIO]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Ecology; environment/Bioclimatology; Svalbard; Svalbard Archipelago; Bjørnøya; North Atlantic; North Atlantic oscillation; uria
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-02104969; https://hal.science/hal-02104969/document; https://hal.science/hal-02104969/file/Fluhr%20MEPS%202017.pdf; https://doi.org/10.3354/meps11982

International audience The Arctic is experiencing environmental changes at unprecedented rates. These changes are spreading throughout the entire food web, affecting apex predators such as seabirds. Brünnich’s guillemot Uria lomvia populations in Svalbard archipelago have significantly declined sinc...