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Assessing individual movement, habitat use, and behavior of non-breeding marine birds in relation to prey availability in the US Atlantic

Gulka, J ; Berlin, AM ; Friedland, KD ; Gilbert, AT ; Goetsch, C ; Montevecchi, WA ; Perry, M ; Stenhouse, IJ ; Williams, KA ; Adams, EM

Marine ecology. Progress series (Halstenbek), 2023-05, Vol.711, p.77-99 [Periódico revisado por pares]

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Assessing individual movement, habitat use, and behavior of non-breeding marine birds in relation to prey availability in the US Atlantic
Autor: Gulka, J ; Berlin, AM ; Friedland, KD ; Gilbert, AT ; Goetsch, C ; Montevecchi, WA ; Perry, M ; Stenhouse, IJ ; Williams, KA ; Adams, EM
Assuntos: Aerial surveying ; Aerial surveys ; Aggregation ; Aquatic birds ; Availability ; Benthos collecting devices ; Bottom trawling ; Breeding ; Brevoortia tyrannus ; Chlorophyll ; Chlorophyll a ; Community composition ; Correlation analysis ; Cross correlation ; Data analysis ; Diet ; Ecological aggregations ; Environmental factors ; Estuaries ; Fish ; Forage ; Forage fishes ; Habitat selection ; Habitat utilization ; Habitats ; Interspecific relationships ; Marine fishes ; Marine systems ; Markov chains ; Movement ; Predation ; Predator prey relations ; Predator-prey interactions ; Prey ; Productivity ; Resource availability ; Seabirds ; Spatial analysis ; Species composition ; Surveys ; Telemetry ; Trophic relationships ; Waterfowl
É parte de: Marine ecology. Progress series (Halstenbek), 2023-05, Vol.711, p.77-99
Descrição: Resource availability is a key factor driving marine bird movements and distributions, but direct information on prey availability is difficult to obtain at relevant scales. We present novel methods for describing multi-scale trophic associations, combining movement analyses of marine birds with estimates of forage fish surface aggregations from digital aerial survey data and species occupancy from bottom trawl survey data. We analyzed satellite telemetry data from northern gannets Morus bassanus , red-throated loons Gavia stellata , and long-tailed ducks Clangula hyemalis in the US Atlantic during the non-breeding period. Using discrete-time hidden Markov models to distinguish area-restricted (i.e. putative foraging) from transit movements, we examined how environmental factors influence movement, and how forage fish species distributions and surface aggregations influence habitat use by gannets and loons that have greater dietary reliance. Our results suggest that chlorophyll a concentration significantly affected movement behavior across species, highlighting the importance of higher-productivity areas around estuaries during colder months when regional productivity is low. Though variable across species and seasons, spatial cross-correlation analysis revealed that herring species (Family Clupeidae), including Atlantic menhaden Brevoortia tyrannus , may be important resources; it also showed positive spatial correlations with forage fish aggregations. This suggests that prey patch dynamics and factors driving aggregation formation may be as important as species composition. However, spatial patterns were generally low (<0.3), suggesting a mismatch in spatiotemporal resolution, exemplifying the challenges in quantifying trophic relationships in marine systems. Disentangling predator-prey relationships is critical to understanding the mechanisms driving marine bird behavior in rapidly changing marine systems.
Editor: Oldendorf: Inter-Research Science Center
Idioma: Inglês

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Assessing individual movement, habitat use, and behavior of non-breeding marine birds in relation to prey availability in the US Atlantic

Gulka, J ; Berlin, AM ; Friedland, KD ; Gilbert, AT ; Goetsch, C ; Montevecchi, WA ; Perry, M ; Stenhouse, IJ ; Williams, KA ; Adams, EM

Oldendorf: Inter-Research Science Center

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