Circumpolar dynamics of a marine top‐predator track ocean warming rates

• Published in: Global change biology Vol. 23; no. 9; pp. 3770 - 3780
• Main Authors: Descamps, Sébastien, Anker‐Nilssen, Tycho, Barrett, Robert T., Irons, David B., Merkel, Flemming, Robertson, Gregory J., Yoccoz, Nigel G., Mallory, Mark L., Montevecchi, William A., Boertmann, David, Artukhin, Yuri, Christensen‐Dalsgaard, Signe, Erikstad, Kjell‐Einar, Gilchrist, H. Grant, Labansen, Aili L., Lorentsen, Svein‐Håkon, Mosbech, Anders, Olsen, Bergur, Petersen, Aevar, Rail, Jean‐Francois, Renner, Heather M., Strøm, Hallvard, Systad, Geir H., Wilhelm, Sabina I., Zelenskaya, Larisa
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.09.2017; Wiley
• Subjects: Animals; Aquatic birds; Birds; black‐legged kittiwake; Breeding; Climate; Climate Change; Colonies; Dynamics; Ecology: 488; Ecosystem; Ecosystems; Food Chain; Global warming; Matematikk og Naturvitenskap: 400; Mathematics and natural science: 400; Nonlinear response; Nonlinear systems; Nonlinearity; Ocean warming; ocean warming rate; Oceans and Seas; Population decline; Population Dynamics; Predators; Sea surface temperature; seabird; Seabirds; Temperature effects; VDP; Zoologiske og botaniske fag: 480; Zoology and botany: 480; Økologi: 488; black-legged kittiwake; ocean warming rate; seabird; sea-surface temperature; population decline; climate change; nonlinear response

Global warming is a nonlinear process, and temperature may increase in a stepwise manner. Periods of abrupt warming can trigger persistent changes in the state of ecosystems, also called regime shifts. The responses of organisms to abrupt warming and associated regime shifts can be unlike responses...