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Inter-annual climate variability affects foraging behavior and nutritional state of thick-billed murres breeding in the southeastern Bering Sea

2017; Inter-Research; Volume: 593; Linguagem: Inglês

10.3354/meps12365

1616-1599

Nobuo Kokubun, Akinori Takahashi, Rosana Paredes, RC Young, NN Sato, Takashi Yamamoto, DM Kikuchi, E.V Kitaiskaia, M Ito, Yutaka Watanuki, Alexis Will, Robert Russell Lauth, MD Romano, AS Kitaysky,

Climate variability and models

MEPS Marine Ecology Progress Series Contact the journal Facebook Twitter RSS Mailing List Subscribe to our mailing list via Mailchimp HomeLatest VolumeAbout the JournalEditorsTheme Sections MEPS 593:195-208 (2018) - DOI: https://doi.org/10.3354/meps12365 Inter-annual climate variability affects foraging behavior and nutritional state of thick-billed murres breeding in the southeastern Bering Sea N. Kokubun1,2, A. Takahashi1,2,*, R. Paredes3, R. C. Young4,5, N. N. Sato2, T. Yamamoto1,6,7, D. M. Kikuchi2, E. V. Kitaiskaia4, M. Ito1,6,8, Y. Watanuki6, A. P. Will1,4, R. Lauth9, M. D. Romano10, A. S. Kitaysky4 1National Institute of Polar Research Japan, Tachikawa, Tokyo 190-8518, Japan 2Department of Polar Science, SOKENDAI (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies), Tachikawa, Tokyo 190-8518, Japan 3Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331-3803, USA 4Department of Biology and Wildlife, Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK 99775-7000, USA 5Instituto de Ecología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Circuito Exterior S/N anexo Jardín Botánico exterior, Ciudad Universitaria, Ciudad de México, CP 04500, Mexico 6Graduate School of Fisheries Science, Hokkaido University, Hakodate, Hokkaido 040-0821, Japan 7Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Aichi 464-8601, Japan 8Department of Applied Biosciences, Faculty of Life Sciences, Toyo University, Itakura, Gunma 374-0193, Japan 9NOAA Fisheries, Alaska Fisheries Science Center, Seattle, WA 98115-0070, USA 10Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge, US Fish and Wildlife Service, Homer, AK 99603, USA *Corresponding author: atak@nipr.ac.jpAdvance View was available online January 29, 2018 ABSTRACT: Warm oceanographic conditions of the continental shelf regions in the southeastern Bering Sea are associated with drastic increases in the abundance of juvenile walleye pollock Gadus chalcogrammus at shallow depths. We hypothesized that thick-billed murres Uria lomvia would benefit from these warm conditions by taking advantage of such an abundant prey resource available near their breeding colonies. We compiled a large dataset on the foraging behavior and nutritional state of murres breeding on St. George Island between 2003 and 2015. Murres foraged mostly on the continental shelf in warm years, but foraged in both on-shelf and off-shelf habitats in cold years. Shifts in foraging locations were associated with changes in diving depths. Nighttime foraging and daily diving effort increased during cold years, suggesting murres had to work more to obtain food under cold compared to warm conditions. Chick diets shifted from squid and benthic fishes in cold years to juvenile pollock in warm years. Foraging trip duration and reproductive success of birds were not affected by shifting oceanographic conditions, suggesting that murres behaviorally mediated the effects of inter-annual climate variability on their reproduction. However, this 'behavioral buffering' had associated costs, reflected in higher corticosterone concentrations in the blood of murres in cold compared to warm years, indicating that breeding birds incurred higher levels of nutritional stress under cold conditions. Our multiyear integrative study provides support that warmer conditions on the continental shelf might benefit piscivorous seabirds due to an increase in the availability of juvenile walleye pollock in the southeastern Bering Sea. KEY WORDS: Seabirds · Behavioral plasticity · Diving · GPS tracking · Nutritional stress · Corticosterone Full text in pdf format Supplementary material PreviousNextCite this article as: Kokubun N, Takahashi A, Paredes R, Young RC and others (2018) Inter-annual climate variability affects foraging behavior and nutritional state of thick-billed murres breeding in the southeastern Bering Sea. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 593:195-208. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps12365 Export citation RSS - Facebook - Tweet - linkedIn Cited by Published in MEPS Vol. 593. Online publication date: April 12, 2018 Print ISSN: 0171-8630; Online ISSN: 1616-1599 Copyright © 2018 Inter-Research.