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Direct quantification of energy intake in an apex marine predator suggests physiology is a key driver of migrations.
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- Resource partitioning among pelagic predators remains stable despite annual variability in diet composition.The Journal of animal ecology · 2025Article
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- Vertical energy seascapes and diving behaviour modulate metabolic scope in a pelagic predator.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2025Article
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- Atlantic bluefin tuna tagged off Norway show extensive annual migrations, high site-fidelity and dynamic behaviour in the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Article
- Context drives movement patterns in a mobile marine predator.Movement ecology · 2023Article
- Hunting behavior of a solitary sailfish Istiophorus platypterus and estimated energy gain after prey capture.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Flexible use of a dynamic energy landscape buffers a marine predator against extreme climate variability.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2021Article
- Physiological mechanisms linking cold acclimation and the poleward distribution limit of a range-extending marine fish.Conservation physiology · 2020Article
- Direct measurement of swimming and diving kinematics of giant Atlantic bluefin tuna (Royal Society open science · 2019Article
- Environmental predictors of habitat suitability and occurrence of cetaceans in the western North Atlantic Ocean.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Phylotranscriptomic Insights into the Diversification of Endothermic Thunnus Tunas.Molecular biology and evolution · 2019Article
- Migration dynamics of juvenile southern bluefin tuna.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- Mesoscale activity facilitates energy gain in a top predator.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2018Article
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Abstract
Pacific bluefin tuna (Thunnus orientalis) are highly migratory apex marine predators that inhabit a broad thermal niche. The energy needed for migration must be garnered by foraging, but measuring energy intake in the marine environment is challenging. We quantified the energy intake of Pacific bluefin tuna in the California Current using a laboratory-validated model, the first such measurement in a wild marine predator. Mean daily energy intake was highest off the coast of Baja California, Mexico in summer (mean ± SD, 1034 ± 669 kcal), followed by autumn when Pacific bluefin achieve their northernmost range in waters off northern California (944 ± 579 kcal). Movements were not always consistent with maximizing energy intake: the Pacific bluefin move out of energy rich waters both in late summer and winter, coincident with rising and falling water temperatures, respectively. We hypothesize that temperature-related physiological constraints drive migration and that Pacific bluefin tuna optimize energy intake within a range of optimal aerobic performance.
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