ArticleMovement ecology2019
Tropical cyclones alter short-term activity patterns of a coastal seabird.
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- How wildlife respond to tropical cyclones: short-term tactics and long-term impacts.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2026Review
- Weather Conditions Are Systematically Associated With Long-Range Nonroutine Movements in a Large Scavenger.Ecology and evolution · 2026Article
- Biologging as an important tool to uncover behaviors of cryptic species: an analysis of giant armadillos (PeerJ · 2023Article
- Migration, breeding location, and seascape shape seabird assemblages in the northern Gulf of Mexico.PloS one · 2023Article
- Pelagic seabirds reduce risk by flying into the eye of the storm.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
- Blood biochemistry and hematology of adult and chick brown pelicans in the northern Gulf of Mexico: baseline health values and ecological relationships.Conservation physiology · 2022Article
- Riders on the storm: loggerhead sea turtles detect and respond to a major hurricane in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean.Movement ecology · 2020Article
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Abstract
backgroundMobile organisms in marine environments are expected to modify their behavior in response to external stressors. Among environmental drivers of animal movement are long-term climatic indices influencing organism distribution and short-term meteorological events anticipated to alter acute movement behavior. However, few studies exist documenting the response of vagile species to meteorological anomalies in coastal and marine systems.
methodsHere we examined the movements of Eastern brown pelicans (
resultsIndividual pelicans were more likely to remain inactive during tropical cyclone passage compared to baseline conditions generally, although responses varied by hurricane. When inactive, pelicans tended to seek shelter using local geomorphological features along the coastline such as barrier islands and estuarine systems.
conclusionsOur telemetry data showed that large subtropical seabirds such as pelicans may mitigate risk associated with spatially-extensive meteorological events by decreasing daily movements. Sheltering may be related to changes in barometric pressure and wind velocity, and represents a strategy common to several other classes of marine vertebrate predators for increasing survival probabilities.
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