ArticleScientific reports2021
Trait-mediated shifts and climate velocity decouple an endothermic marine predator and its ectothermic prey.
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- Comparing ecological relevance of climate velocity indices.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Predictions of southern migration timing in coastal sharks under future ocean warming.Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology · 2025Article
- Correction to: 'Dolphin social phenotypes vary in response to food availability but not the North Atlantic Oscillation index' (2023), by Fisher and Cheney.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2025Article
- Spatial, environmental and trophic niche partitioning by seabirds in a climate change hotspot.The Journal of animal ecology · 2025Article
- Spatial match-mismatch between predators and prey under climate change.Nature ecology & evolution · 2024Review
- Dolphin social phenotypes vary in response to food availability but not the North Atlantic Oscillation index.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Article
- Rapid restructuring of the odontocete community in an ocean warming hotspot.Global change biology · 2022Article
- Climate change and cetacean health: impacts and future directions.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2022Review
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Abstract
Climate change is redistributing biodiversity globally and distributional shifts have been found to follow local climate velocities. It is largely assumed that marine endotherms such as cetaceans might shift more slowly than ectotherms in response to warming and would primarily follow changes in prey, but distributional shifts in cetaceans are difficult to quantify. Here we use data from fisheries bycatch and strandings to examine changes in the distribution of long-finned pilot whales (Globicephala melas), and assess shifts in pilot whales and their prey relative to climate velocity in a rapidly warming region of the Northwest Atlantic. We found a poleward shift in pilot whale distribution that exceeded climate velocity and occurred at more than three times the rate of fish and invertebrate prey species. Fish and invertebrates shifted at rates equal to or slower than expected based on climate velocity, with more slowly shifting species moving to deeper waters. We suggest that traits such as mobility, diet specialization, and thermoregulatory strategy are central to understanding and anticipating range shifts. Our findings highlight the potential for trait-mediated climate shifts to decouple relationships between endothermic cetaceans and their ectothermic prey, which has important implications for marine food web dynamics and ecosystem stability.
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