ArticleScientific reports2017
Habitat foraging niche of a High Arctic zooplanktivorous seabird in a changing environment.
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- Dietary Flexibility of Calanoid Copepods in the Sub-Arctic Atlantic: The Role of Protistan Microzooplankton.Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- A behavioural approach to key area identification in seabirds for threat mitigation and spatial management.Animal biotelemetry · 2025Article
- Assessing vulnerability of Arctic fish species to climate change.Discover Oceans · 2025Article
- Decline in the West Greenland population of a zooplanktivorous seabird, the little auk Alle alle.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Sex differences in foraging ecology of a zooplanktivorous little auk Alle alle during the pre-laying period: insights from remote sensing and animal-tracking.Frontiers in zoology · 2024Article
- The first evidence of alloparental feeding in a crevice-nesting seabird, the little auk.Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
- Molecular tools prove little auks from Svalbard are extremely selective for Calanus glacialis even when exposed to Atlantification.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Climate Warming Since the Holocene Accelerates West-East Communication for the Eurasian Temperate Water Strider Species Aquarius paludum.Molecular biology and evolution · 2022Article
- Eye Region Surface Temperature and Corticosterone Response to Acute Stress in a High-Arctic Seabird, the Little Auk.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2022Article
- Flexibility of little auks foraging in various oceanographic features in a changing Arctic.Scientific reports · 2020Article
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- The ecological significance of extremely large flocks of birds.Ecology and evolution · 2019Article
- Arctic climate change and pollution impact little auk foraging and fitness across a decade.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Determinants of the little auk (Alle alle) breeding colony location and size in W and NW coast of Spitsbergen.PloS one · 2019Article
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Abstract
Here, we model current and future distribution of a foraging Arctic endemic species, the little auk (Alle alle), a small zooplanktivorous Arctic seabird. We characterized environmental conditions [sea depth, sea surface temperature (SST), marginal sea ice zone (MIZ)] at foraging positions of GPS-tracked individuals from three breeding colonies in Svalbard: one located at the southern rim of the Arctic zone (hereafter 'boreo-Arctic') and two in the high-Arctic zone on Spitsbergen ('high-Arctic'). The birds from one 'high-Arctic' colony, influenced by cold Arctic water, foraged in the shallow shelf zone near the colony. The birds from remaining colonies foraged in a wider range of depths, in a higher SST zone ('boreo-Arctic') or in the productive but distant MIZ (second 'high-Arctic' colony). Given this flexible foraging behaviour, little auks may be temporarily resilient to moderate climate changes. However, our fuzzy logic models of future distribution under scenarios of 1 °C and 2 °C SST increase predict losses of suitable foraging habitat for the majority of little auk colonies studied. Over longer time scales negative consequences of global warming are inevitable. The actual response of little auks to future environmental conditions will depend on the range of their plasticity and pace of ecosystem changes.
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