ArticleScientific reports2021
North Pacific warming shifts the juvenile range of a marine apex predator.
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- Ontogenetic shifts in morphology and ecology of eastern Pacific white sharks revealed by computer vision.PloS one · 2026Article
- Marine heatwaves disrupt ecosystem structure and function via altered food webs and energy flux.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Impacts of marine heatwaves on top predator distributions are variable but predictable.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Leveraging Public Data to Predict Global Niches and Distributions of Rhizostome Jellyfishes.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Article
- Network analysis reveals aggregation behaviour for an endangered predator at an offshore island.Journal of fish biology · 2022Article
- A biologging database of juvenile white sharks from the northeast Pacific.Scientific data · 2022Article
- Ocean warming alters the distributional range, migratory timing, and spatial protections of an apex predator, the tiger shark (Galeocerdo cuvier).Global change biology · 2022Article
- Narrowing the niche of shark fin harvests in the global ocean.Biology letters · 2021Article
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Abstract
During the 2014-2016 North Pacific marine heatwave, unprecedented sightings of juvenile white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) emerged in central California. These records contradicted the species established life history, where juveniles remain in warmer waters in the southern California Current. This spatial shift is significant as it creates potential conflicts with commercial fisheries, protected species conservation, and public safety concerns. Here, we integrate community science, photogrammetry, biologging, and mesoscale climate data to describe and explain this phenomenon. We find a dramatic increase in white sharks from 2014 to 2019 in Monterey Bay that was overwhelmingly comprised of juvenile sharks < 2.5 m in total body length. Next, we derived thermal preferences from 22 million tag measurements of 14 juvenile sharks and use this to map the cold limit of their range. Consistent with historical records, the position of this cold edge averaged 34° N from 1982 to 2013 but jumped to 38.5° during the 2014-2016 marine heat wave. In addition to a poleward shift, thermally suitable habitat for juvenile sharks declined 223.2 km
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