Marine ecosystem assessment for the Southern Ocean: birds and marine mammals in a changing climate

S Bestley, Y Ropert-Coudert… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The massive number of seabirds (penguins and procellariiformes) and marine mammals
(cetaceans and pinnipeds)–referred to here as top predators–is one of the most iconic …

Climate change impacts on seabirds and marine mammals: The importance of study duration, thermal tolerance and generation time

F Orgeret, A Thiebault, KM Kovacs, C Lydersen… - Ecology …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding climate change impacts on top predators is fundamental to marine
biodiversity conservation, due to their increasingly threatened populations and their …

Tracking of marine predators to protect Southern Ocean ecosystems

MA Hindell, RR Reisinger, Y Ropert-Coudert… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Southern Ocean ecosystems are under pressure from resource exploitation and climate
change,. Mitigation requires the identification and protection of Areas of Ecological …

Marine mammal conservation: over the horizon

SE Nelms, J Alfaro-Shigueto, JPY Arnould… - Endangered Species …, 2021 - int-res.com
Marine mammals can play important ecological roles in aquatic ecosystems, and their
presence can be key to community structure and function. Consequently, marine mammals …

Climate change impacts on sea-ice ecosystems and associated ecosystem services

NS Steiner, J Bowman, K Campbell, M Chierici… - Elem Sci …, 2021 - online.ucpress.edu
A rigorous synthesis of the sea-ice ecosystem and linked ecosystem services highlights that
the sea-ice ecosystem supports all 4 ecosystem service categories, that sea-ice ecosystems …

Movement responses to environment: fast inference of variation among southern elephant seals with a mixed effects model

ID Jonsen, CR McMahon, TA Patterson… - 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Like many species, movement patterns of southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina) are
being influenced by long‐term environmental change. These seals migrate up to 4,000 km …

Humpback whale migrations to Antarctic summer foraging grounds through the southwest Pacific Ocean

V Andrews-Goff, S Bestley, NJ Gales, SM Laverick… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) populations typically undertake seasonal
migrations, spending winters in low latitude breeding grounds and summers foraging in high …

Animal borne ocean sensors–AniBOS–An essential component of the global ocean observing system

CR McMahon, F Roquet, S Baudel… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Marine animals equipped with biological and physical electronic sensors have produced
long-term data streams on key marine environmental variables, hydrography, animal …

Contrasting trends in gray seal (Halichoerus grypus) pup production throughout the increasing northwest Atlantic metapopulation

CE den Heyer, WD Bowen, J Dale… - Marine Mammal …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The northwest Atlantic subspecies of gray seal (Halicheorus grypus grypus) has been
increasing for more than a half century and has reestablished breeding colonies in …

Harbour seals: Population structure, status, and threats in a rapidly changing environment

MA Blanchet, C Vincent, JN Womble, SM Steingass… - Oceans, 2021 - mdpi.com
The harbour seal (Phoca vitulina) is the world's most widely distributed pinniped species
ranging from temperate to Arctic regions (30–78.5° N in the Atlantic, 28–61.2° N in the …