Marine top predators as climate and ecosystem sentinels

EL Hazen, B Abrahms, S Brodie… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The rapid pace of environmental change in the Anthropocene necessitates the development
of a new suite of tools for measuring ecosystem dynamics. Sentinel species can provide …

Quantifying the sensitivity of Arctic marine mammals to climate‐induced habitat change

KL Laidre, I Stirling, LF Lowry, Ø Wiig… - Ecological …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
We review seven Arctic and four subarctic marine mammal species, their habitat
requirements, and evidence for biological and demographic responses to climate change …

Population trend of the world's monitored seabirds, 1950-2010

M Paleczny, E Hammill, V Karpouzi, D Pauly - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Seabird population changes are good indicators of long-term and large-scale change in
marine ecosystems, and important because of their many impacts on marine ecosystems …

Global seabird response to forage fish depletion—one-third for the birds

PM Cury, IL Boyd, S Bonhommeau, T Anker-Nilssen… - Science, 2011 - science.org
Determining the form of key predator-prey relationships is critical for understanding marine
ecosystem dynamics. Using a comprehensive global database, we quantified the effect of …

Tracking of Arctic terns Sterna paradisaea reveals longest animal migration

C Egevang, IJ Stenhouse, RA Phillips… - Proceedings of the …, 2010 - National Acad Sciences
The study of long-distance migration provides insights into the habits and performance of
organisms at the limit of their physical abilities. The Arctic tern Sterna paradisaea is the …

Fishing amplifies forage fish population collapses

TE Essington, PE Moriarty… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
Forage fish support the largest fisheries in the world but also play key roles in marine food
webs by transferring energy from plankton to upper trophic-level predators, such as large …

Assessing vulnerability of marine bird populations to offshore wind farms

RW Furness, HM Wade, EA Masden - Journal of environmental …, 2013 - Elsevier
Offshore wind farms may affect bird populations through collision mortality and
displacement. Given the pressures to develop offshore wind farms, there is an urgent need …

From plankton to top predators: bottom‐up control of a marine food web across four trophic levels

M Frederiksen, M Edwards… - Journal of Animal …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Summary 1 Abundant mid‐trophic pelagic fish often play a central role in marine
ecosystems, both as links between zooplankton and top predators and as important fishery …

Seabird foraging ranges as a preliminary tool for identifying candidate Marine Protected Areas

CB Thaxter, B Lascelles, K Sugar, ASCP Cook… - Biological …, 2012 - Elsevier
There is a growing need to identify Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) for marine species. For
seabirds, MPAs include those near breeding colonies, offshore foraging areas, inshore …

Scaling possible adverse effects of marine wind farms on seabirds: developing and applying a vulnerability index

S Garthe, O Hüppop - Journal of applied Ecology, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Summary 1 Marine wind farms have attracted substantial public interest. The construction of
wind facilities offshore may become Europe's most extensive technical development in …