Elevated sea-surface temperature, reduced provisioning and reproductive failure of wedge-tailed shearwaters (Puffinus pacificus) in the southern Great Barrier Reef, Australia

被引:48
作者
Smithers, BV [1 ]
Peck, DR [1 ]
Krockenberger, AK [1 ]
Congdon, BC [1 ]
机构
[1] James Cook Univ N Queensland, Sch Trop Biol, Cairns, Qld 4870, Australia
关键词
El Nino-Southern Oscillation; forage-fish; seabird reproduction;
D O I
10.1071/MF02137
中图分类号
S9 [水产、渔业];
学科分类号
0908 ;
摘要
During the 2002 austral summer abnormally high sea-surface temperatures (SST) occurred in the southern Great Barrier Reef (GBR), Australia. This phenomenon was accompanied by reduced provisioning, decreased growth rates and reproductive failure of wedge-tailed shearwaters in the region. In 2002, adults were unable to compensate for changes in either the availability and/or accessibility of forage-fish by increasing food loads or foraging rates. This is one of few studies to explicitly correlate decreases in chick provisioning with above-average annual variation in SST and is the first to do so for a tropical seabird species in the western Pacific. It adds to an increasing number of data sets identifying the potential negative impacts of increasing SST at upper-trophic levels. As SST continue to rise with global climate change, our results predict substantial detrimental effects on seabird populations of the GBR. This finding has important implications for both seabird and coral reef ecosystem management in the region. Our results also suggest that wedge-tailed shearwaters are sensitive indicators to changes in forage-fish availability/accessibility associated with SST variation that can be used to develop models of, and monitor for, these potential impacts.
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页码:973 / 977
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