Pollock and the decline of Steller sea lions: testing the junk-food hypothesis.

By D. Rosen, Andrew W. Trites. 2000

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Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Junk-food in marine ecosystems (2008, background): “This experimental study of seabirds, together with the captive feeding experiment of sea lions ( Rosen and Trites 2000, 2004 ) and seabirds (Dahdul and Horn 2003), and supplementary feeding experiments giving higher quality food to wild seabird chicks (Romano et al. 2006) provide some of the stronge”
Diet of young Atlantic bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus) in eastern and western Atlantic foraging grounds (2010, background): “Any reductions in the abundance of top predators have the potential to alter food web dynamics and trophic structure in marine systems (Paine 1966; Hinke et al. 2004), while changes in the prey community can also affect marine top predators (Rosen and Trites 2000).”
The decline of Steller sea lions Eumetopias jubatus in Alaska : a review of the nutritional stress hypothesis (2003, background): “Large numbers of older pups (2–6 weeks old) weighed during the 1980s and 1990s were found to be heavier at declining rookeries (Aleutian Islands and Gulf of Alaska) compared to increasing and stable sites (Southeast Alaska) (Merrick et al., 1995; Rea, 1995).”
Massive Mortality of a Planktivorous Seabird in Response to a Marine Heatwave (2018, background): “Lower energy content and/or smaller prey may have served as “junk food” (Österblom et al., 2008; Rosen & Trites, 2000; Wanless et al., 2005), which for small-bodied pursuit divers, such as Cassin’s Auklets, may be particularly detrimental given their energetically expensive mode of feeding (Romano e”
The nature of nutrition: a unifying framework (2011, background): “It is this energy shortage that motivates feeding back down the food chain (Raubenheimer et al. 2009) and perhaps explains why populationsof predatorymarinebirds and sea lionsdeclined in the Gulf of Alaska after the loss of high-fat species of fish (Rosen and Trites 2000; Romano et al. 2006).”
Balancing of protein and lipid intake by a mammalian carnivore, the mink, Mustela vison (2009, background): “…similarly experience large variation in prey nutrient composition, and it has even been suggested that declines in populations of predatory marine birds and sealions might be contributed to by diet shifts between prey of different macronutrient composition (Rosen & Trites 2000; Romano et al. 2006).”