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

CA Bost, C Cotté, F Bailleul, Y Cherel… - Journal of Marine …, 2009 - Elsevier
During the last 30 years, at-sea studies of seabirds and marine mammals in the oceans
south of the Subtropical Front have described an association with major frontal areas. More …

Oceanographic influences on seabirds and cetaceans of the eastern tropical Pacific: a review

LT Ballance, RL Pitman, PC Fiedler - Progress in Oceanography, 2006 - Elsevier
This paper is part of a comprehensive review of the oceanography of the eastern tropical
Pacific, the oceanic region centered on the eastern Pacific warm pool, but also including the …

Large-scale climatic anomalies affect marine predator foraging behaviour and demography

CA Bost, C Cotté, P Terray, C Barbraud, C Bon… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Determining the links between the behavioural and population responses of wild species to
environmental variations is critical for understanding the impact of climate variability on …

Food-web inferences of stable isotope spatial patterns in copepods and yellowfin tuna in the pelagic eastern Pacific Ocean

RJ Olson, BN Popp, BS Graham… - Progress in …, 2010 - Elsevier
Evaluating the impacts of climate and fishing on oceanic ecosystems requires an improved
understanding of the trophodynamics of pelagic food webs. Our approach was to examine …

Physical and biological variables affecting seabird distributions during the upwelling season of the northern California Current

DG Ainley, LB Spear, CT Tynan, JA Barth… - Deep Sea Research …, 2005 - Elsevier
As a part of the GLOBEC-Northeast Pacific project, we investigated variation in the
abundance of marine birds in the context of biological and physical habitat conditions in the …

Subglacial discharges create fluctuating foraging hotspots for sea birds in tidewater glacier bays

JA Urbanski, L Stempniewicz, JM Węsławski… - Scientific Reports, 2017 - nature.com
Although the processes occurring at the front of an ice face in tidewater glacier bays still
await thorough investigation, their importance to the rapidly changing polar environment is …

Predicting the distribution of foraging seabirds during a period of heightened environmental variability

R Evans, MA Lea, MA Hindell - Ecological Applications, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Quantifying the links between the marine environment, prey occurrence, and predator
distribution is the first step towards identifying areas of biological importance for marine …

[PDF][PDF] Understanding seabirds at sea: why and how?

LT BALLANCE - Marine Ornithology, 2007 - marineornithology.org
Studies of the at-sea component of seabirds' lives are essential to a comprehensive
understanding of seabirds, simply because so many species spend the vast majority of their …

Identifying main interactions in marine predator–prey networks of the Bay of Biscay

A Astarloa, M Louzao, G Boyra… - ICES Journal of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Identifying the role that environmental factors and biotic interactions play in species
distribution can be essential to better understand and predict how ecosystems will respond …

The influence of oceanographic features on the foraging behavior of the olive ridley sea turtle Lepidochelys olivacea along the Guiana coast

P Chambault, B De Thoisy, K Heerah… - Progress in …, 2016 - Elsevier
The circulation in the Western Equatorial Atlantic is characterized by a highly dynamic
mesoscale activity that shapes the Guiana continental shelf. Olive ridley sea turtles …