Global Seabird Response to Forage Fish Depletion—One-Third for the Birds

By Philippe Cury, I. Boyd, Sylvain Bonhommeau, T. Anker‐Nilssen, R. Crawford, Robert W. Furness, J. Mills, E. Murphy, H. Österblom, M. Paleczny and 4 more. Science, 2011

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Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change

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Seabirds and climate change: roadmap for the future (2012, background): “These studies often include information on food habits, seasonality, and species interactions, so that mechanisms of demographic or distributional change may be properly inferred (Cury et al. 2011).”
The effects of climate change on tropical birds (2012, background): “Reduced prey directly affects seabird productivity (Cury et al., 2011), but it can also influence impoverished island ecosystems, where seabird droppings (guano) provide critical nutrient inputs to these ecosystems (Croll et al., 2005; Sßekercioğlu, 2006b).”
Spatial management of marine resources can enhance the recovery of predators and avoid local depletion of forage fish (2012, background): “2000) or seabirds (Cury et al. 2011), which in some cases has led to fisheries moratoria on local prey populations (Greenstreet et al.”
Migratory marine species: their status, threats and conservation management needs (2014, background): “Cury et al. (2011) assessed prey abundance and breeding success for 14 bird species within the”
Local depletion by a fishery can affect seabird foraging (2012, methodology): “We quantified the spatial association between fishing sets and seabird dive positions (clust) using an approach based on the bivariate Ripley’s K-function (Ripley 1976, 1979; Dixon 2002; see Appendix S1, Supporting Information).”
Competition for the fish – fish extraction from the Baltic Sea by humans, aquatic mammals, and birds (2018, neutral): “…the possibility of increasing fishery by reducing abundances of competitors, as well as the impact of fisheries on the foraging conditions of top predators (e.g. Corkeron, 2004; Pikitch et al., 2004; Cury et al., 2011; Morissette et al., 2012; Bowen and Lidgard, 2013; Hilborn et al., 2017).”
Towards ecosystem-based management: identifying operational food-web indicators for marine ecosystems (2017, background): “For example, both higher-trophic (seabird and charismatic megafauna productivity) and lower-trophic indicators (PPR and zooplankton index) are reflective of bottom-up processes viewed from opposing ends of the food web (Cury et al., 2011; Einoder, 2009; Hilting et al., 2013).”
Interannual variability in the Northern California Current food web structure: Changes in energy flow pathways and the role of forage fish, euphausiids, and jellyfish (2012, background): “…coastal ecosystems around the world, the availability of forage fishes has been correlated with the production of seabirds (Crawford and Jahncke, 1999; Jahncke et al., 2004; Suryan et al., 2002), and depletion of forage fish has significant effects on seabird populations (Cury et al., 2011).”
Developing integrated models of Southern Ocean food webs: Including ecological complexity, accounting for uncertainty and the importance of scale (2012, neutral): “…on developing indicators for monitoring changes in ecosystems, including in the Southern Ocean (e.g. Cury and Christensen, 2005; Reid et al., 2005; Cury et al., 2011), with a strong conclusion that a suite of indicators is needed to observe change in different aspects of marine ecosystems due to…”
Spatial scales of marine conservation management for breeding seabirds (2018, background): “For example, regulations that reduce or eliminate the incidental mortality (bycatch) of seabirds in industrial or artisanal fishing operations [11,24,25], or regulations that limit the extraction of food resources [26,27], can be implemented across all spatial scales and may therefore mitigate key t”
Marine defaunation: Animal loss in the global ocean (2015, background): “Depletions of fauna such as anchovies, sardines, and krill cause reductions in food for higher-trophic level animals such as seabirds and marine mammals, potentially resulting in losses in reproduction or reductions in their population size (33, 53).”
Influence of local and regional prey availability on breeding performance of African penguins Spheniscus demersus (2013, background): “As a result, breeding success often shows a curvilinear response to changes in food availability which is apparently robust across various life-history strategies, habitats and population sizes (e.g. Furness 2007, Piatt et al. 2007, Cury et al. 2011).”
The Importance of Krill Predation in the Southern Ocean (2016, background): “Various authors (e.g. Boyd and Murray 2001, Reid et al. 2005, Cury et al. 2011) present evidence for asymptotic functional responses in some krill predators.”
From lavage to lipids: Estimating diets of seabirds (2012, positive): “Assessment of seabird diets can elucidate factors causing population declines (e.g. Becker & Beissinger 2006) and can identify par- ticular prey (e.g. Cury et al. 2011) or foraging areas (e.g. Louzao et al. 2011) that need protection.”
Trace me if you can: the use of intrinsic biogeochemical markers in marine top predators (2012, background): “Fisheries for lower-trophic-level species have high economical value but are competing for the main resources of marine predators and can affect the viability of their populations (Cury et al. 2011).”
Ontogeny in marine tagging and tracking science: technologies and data gaps (2012, background): “…species of fish and their varied life-history and behavioral characteristics, smaller and cheaper tags could provide ecological knowledge of pelagic forage species to inform ecosystem studies (Cury et al. 2011), and better estimate fisheries-independent mortality rates for heavily fished species.”