The importance of oceanographic fronts to marine birds and mammals of the southern oceans

By C. Bost, C. Cotté, F. Bailleul, Y. Cherel, J. Charrassin, C. Guinet, D. Ainley, Henri Weimerskirch. 2009

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Habitat modelling of tracking data from multiple marine predators identifies important areas in the Southern Indian Ocean (2018, background): “SSTgrad, SSHA and SSHgrad are linked to ocean fronts and eddies, which are considered important to a range of marine top predators (Nel et al. 2001, Bost et al., 2009; Scales et al., 2014).”
New Insights into Pelagic Migrations: Implications for Ecology and Conservation (2012, background): “…life histories that necessitate traveling hundreds or thousands of kilometers from breeding colonies to regions where suitable prey are abundant enough to profitably forage (Bost et al. 2009b, Costa 1991, Egevang et al. 2010, Le Boeuf et al. 2000, Shaffer et al. 2006, Weimerskirch et al. 2012).”
Sub-surface hotspots in shallow seas: fine-scale limited locations of top predator foraging habitat indicated by tidal mixing and sub-surface chlorophyll (2010, background): “At this large scale, the mechanistic evidence behind the creation of hotspots for marine predator foraging points directly to both topographical features (Genin 2004, Yen et al. 2004) and primary productivity (Ware & Thomson 2005, Bost et al. 2009).”
Confusion reigns? A review of marine megafauna interactions with tidal-stream environments (2015, background): “However, while species could benefit from hydrodynamic features (such as boils) within tidal-stream habitats, they are generally associated with oceanic fronts (Bost et al. 2009, Dean et al. 2012, Edwards et al. 2013), and there is little evidence of them associating with tidal-stream environments.”
The trophodynamics of marine top predators: Current knowledge, recent advances and challenges (2015, background): “Satellite tags, GPS and geolocators deployed on seabirds show how animals exploit physical oceanographic features, like eddies or fronts, which concentrate prey (Bost et al., 2009; Tew Kai et al., 2009), or travel thousands of kilometres over their annual cycle, visiting areas with differing key oce”
Basking sharks and oceanographic fronts: quantifying associations in the north‐east Atlantic (2015, background): “…al. 2004; sharks, Pade et al. 2009; Queiroz et al. 2012; whales, Irvine et al. 2014; seabirds, Patrick et al. 2014), indicating that spatio-temporal predictability of prey encounter rates influences habitat selection across taxa (e.g. seabirds, marine mammals; Weimerskirch 2007; Bost et al. 2009).”
Linking foraging behaviour to physical oceanographic structures: Southern elephant seals and mesoscale eddies east of Kerguelen Islands (2010, background): “These species rely on mesopelagic fish whose spatial distribution is much more predictable close to frontal structures (Bost et al., 2009).”
Isotopic niches and trophic levels of myctophid fishes and their predators in the Southern Ocean (2010, background): “We focused on resource partitioning within the fish assemblage occurring in the vicinity of the Polar Front, where myctophids concentrate and are targeted by top consumers (Bost et al. 2009).”
Circumpolar habitat use in the southern elephant seal: implications for foraging success and population trajectories (2016, background): “Due to mixing and concentration of nutrients, fronts and eddies have long been known to be associated with increased primary production, and also increased densities of predators (Hyrenbach et al. 2002, Bost et al. 2009, Joiris and Dochy 2013).”
Ecoregionalization of myctophid fish in the Indian sector of the Southern Ocean: results from generalized dissimilarity models (2011, background): “The foraging habitats of these top predators can serve as indicators of the potential habitats of their prey (Bost et al., 2009) to aid and support the ecoregionalization process.”
Southern elephant seal foraging success in relation to temperature and light conditions: insight into prey distribution (2014, unknown): “Future studies should investigate how these observed variations match with the predictions of the optimal diving theory (Carbone & Houston 1994).”