Evidence for decrease in size of lesser sandeels Ammodytes marinus in a North Sea aggregation over a 30-yr period
By Sarah Wanless, P. Wright, M. Harris, David A. Elston. 2004
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Subfields: Aquatic Science, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation
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Citations in the corpus
- Annual variation in diets, feeding locations and foraging behaviour of gannets in the North Sea: flexibility, consistency and constraint (2007, background): “This change may have reflected a decrease in the quality of prey at lower latitudes in recent years in terms of both size and lipid content (Wanless et al. 2004, 2005), but further data are needed to examine latitudinal variation in the sizes and caloric densities of prey species within the North…”
- Seabirds as environmental indicators: the advantages of combining data sets (2007, background): “Seabird-based monitoring has previously shown that lesser sandeels in this region have diminished substantially in size over a 30 yr period (Wanless et al. 2004).”
- Diet studies of seabirds: a review and recommendations (2007, background): “Fish-carrying puffins (and razorbills, Alca torda) can also be caught with fleyg or mist nets as they arrive at or circle past the colony, or with a noose pole once they have landed (Wanless et al., 2004).”
- Binary dietary responses of northern gannets Sula bassana indicate changing food web and oceanographic conditions (2007, background): “Seabird studies are particularly useful in documenting condition changes in these forage species (e.g. Österblom et al. 2001, Davoren & Montevecchi 2003, Miller & Sydeman 2004, Wanless et al. 2004, 2005) that often reflect food resource states.”
- The impact of the sandeel fishery closure on seabird food consumption, distribution, and productivity in the northwestern North Sea (2008, methodology): “(f) Puffin: May–July in all years ( Wanless et al. 2004 ).”
- From plankton to top predators: bottom-up control of a marine food web across four trophic levels. (2006, methodology): “by the decreasing size of adult sandeels in the region (Wanless et al. 2004).”
- Low energy values of fish as a probable cause of a major seabird breeding failure in the North Sea (2005, background): “The emerging evidence for a decline in sandeel size (Wanless et al. 2004), and possibly also sprat size, combined with a reduction in energy value may require a revision of this ranking system that will result in an increased sensitivity score for single-prey loaders, such as the guillemot.”