The effects of prey demography on humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) abundance around Anvers Island, Antarctica

Polar Biology

Volumn 31, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1217-1224

  Friedlaender, Ari S ^a   Fraser, William R ^b   Patterson, Donna ^b   Qian, Song S ^c   Halpin, Patrick N ^a,c  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MARINE LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Polar Oceans Research Group   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adelie penguins; Foraging; Humpback whales; Krill

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CRUSTACEAN; DEMOGRAPHY; FORAGE; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; PREY AVAILABILITY; PREY PREFERENCE; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SEABIRD; WHALE;

ANTARCTIC PENINSULA; ANTARCTICA; ANVERS ISLAND; WEST ANTARCTICA;

CETACEA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); EUPHAUSIACEA; MEGAPTERA; MEGAPTERA NOVAEANGLIAE; MYSTICETI; PYGOSCELIS ADELIAE; SPHENISCIDAE;

EID: 50249123105     PISSN: 07224060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00300-008-0460-x     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. DG Ainley WJ Sydeman RH Parrish WH Lenarz 1993 Oceanic factors influencing distribution of young rockfish (Sebastes) in central California: a predator's perspective Calif Coop Ocean Fish Invest Rep 34 133 139
2. DG Ainley G Ballard KM Dugger 2006 Competition among penguins and cetaceans reveal trophic cascades in the Western Ross Sea, Antarctica Ecology 87 8 2080 2093
3. A Atkinson V Siegel E Pakhomov P Rothery 2004 Long-term decline in krill stock and increase in salps within the Southern Ocean Nature 432 100 103
4. IL Boyd JPY Arnould T Barton JP Croxall 1994 Foraging behavior of Antarctic fur seals during periods of contrasting prey abundance J Anim Ecol 63 703 713
5. MA Chappell VH Shoemaker DH Janes SK Maloney TL Bucher 1993 Energetics of foraging in breeding Adelie penguins Ecology 74 2450 2461
6. JP Croxall K Reid PA Prince 1999 Diet, provisioning and productivity of marine predators to differences in availability of Antarctic krill Mar Ecol Progress Ser 177 115 131
7. WM Fraser EE Hofmann 2003 A predator's perspective on causal links between climate change, physical forcing and ecosystem response Mar Ecol Progress Ser 265 1 15
8. WM Fraser WZ Trivelpiece DG Ainley SG Trivelpiece 1992 Increases in Antarctic penguin populations: reduced competition with whales or a loss of sea ice due to global warming? Polar Biol 11 525 531
9. Friedlaender AS (2006) Spatial ecology of Humpback and Minke Whales off the Western Antarctic Peninsula. Doctoral Dissertation, Duke University, Durham, pp 199
10. AS Friedlaender PN Halpin SS Qian GL Lawson PH Wiebe D Thiele AJ Read 2006 Whale distribution in relation to prey abundance and oceanographic processes in the Western Antarctic Peninsula shelf waters Mar Ecol Progress Ser 317 297 314
11. Friedlaender AS, Lawson GL, Halpin PN (2008) Evidence of resource partitioning and niche separation between humpback and minke whales in Antarctica. Mar Mammal Sci (in review)
12. Hilborn R, Mangel M (1997) The ecological detective: confronting models with data. Princeton University Press, New Jersey
13. DW Johnston AS Friedlaender LG Torres DM Lavigne 2005 Variation in sea ice cover on the east coast of Canada from 1969 to 2002: climate variability and implications for harp and hooded seals Clim Res 20 200 222
14. F Kasamatsu P Ensor GG Joyce N Kimura 2000 Distribution of minke whales in the Bellingshausen and Amundsen Seas (60°W-120°W), with special reference to environmental/physiographic variables Fish Oceanogr 9 214 223
15. F Kasamatsu K Matsuoka T Hakamada 2000 Interspecific relationships in density among the whale community in the Antarctic Polar Biol 23 466 473
16. A Kawamura 1994 A review of baleen whale feeding in the Southern Ocean Rep Int Whaling Comm 44 261 271
17. King JC, Turner J (1997) Antarctic meteorology and climatology. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
18. V Loeb V Seigel O Holm-Hansen R Hewitt W Fraser W Trivelpiece S Trivelpiece 1997 Effects of sea-ice extent and krill or salp dominance on the Antarctic food web Nature 387 897 900
19. Mackintosh NA (1965) The stocks of whales. Fishing News (Books) Ltd, London
20. H Murase K Matsuoka T Ichii S Nishiwaki 2002 Relationship between the distribution of euphausiids and baleen whales in the Antarctic (35°E-145°W) Polar Biology 25 135 145
21. S Nicol T Pauly NL Bindoff S Wright D Thiele GW Hosie PG Strutton E Woehler 2000 Ocean circulation off east Antarctica affects ecosystem structure and sea-ice extent Nature 406 504 507
22. JF Piatt DA Methven 1992 Threshold foraging behavior of baleen whales Mar Ecol Progress Ser 84 205 210
23. LB Quetin RM Ross 2003 Episodic recruitment in Antarctic krill Euphausia superba in the Palmer LTER study region Mar Ecol Progress Ser 259 185 200
24. JV Redfern MC Ferguson EA Becker KD Hyrenbach C Good J Barlow K Kaschner MF Baumgartner KA Forney LT Balance P Fauchald P Halpin T Hamazaki AJ Pershing SS Qian A Read SB Reilly L Torres F Werner 2006 Techniques for Cetacean-habitat modeling: a review Mar Ecol Progress Ser 310 271 295
25. K Reid AS Brierley GA Nevitt 2000 An initial examination of relationships between the distribution of whales and Antarctic Krill Euphausia superba at South Georgia J Cetacean Res Manage 2 143 149
26. K Reid JC Croxall 2001 Environmental responses of upper trophic-level predators reveals a system change in an Antarctic marine ecosystem Proc R Soc Lond 268 377 384
27. Rhodes OE Jr, Odum EP (1996) Spatiotemporal approaches in ecology and genetics: the road less traveled. In: Rhodes OE Jr, Chesser RK, Smith MH (eds) Population dynamics in ecological space and time. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, pp 1-8
28. V Siegel V Loeb 1995 Recruitment of Antarctic krill Euphausia superba and possible causes for its variability Mar Ecol Progress Ser 123 45 56
29. V Siegel V Loeb J Groger 1998 Krill (Euphausia superba) density, proportional recruitment and absolute recruitment and biomass in the Elephant Island region (Antarctic Peninsula) during the period 1997-1997 Polar Biol 19 393 398
30. RC Smith SE Stammerjohn KS Baker 1996 Surface air temperature variations in the western Antarctic Peninsula region Antarct Res Ser 70 105 121
31. Smith RC, Fraser WR, Stammerjohn SE (2003) Climate variability and ecological response of the marine ecosystem in the Western Antarctic Peninsula (WAP) region. In: Greenland D, Goodin D, Smith R (eds) Climate variability and ecosystem response at long-term ecological research sites. Oxford Press, Oxford, pp 158-173
32. DC Thiele ET Chester SE Moore A Sirovic JA Hildebrand AS Friedlaender 2004 Seasonal variability in whale encounters in the Western Antarctic Peninsula Deep Sea Res II 51 2311 2325
33. CT Tynan 1998 Ecological importance of the Southern Boundary of the Antarctic circumpolar current Nature 392 708 710
34. RP Wilson 1984 An improved stomach pump for penguins and other seabirds J Field Ornithol 55 109 112