Ontogenetic habitat shifts in marine organisms: Influencing factors and the impact of climate variability

Bulletin of Marine Science

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 53-67

  Snover, Melissa L ^a  

^a ALASKA FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BYCATCH; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE VARIATION; GROWTH RATE; HABITAT USE; MOVEMENT; ONTOGENY; PREDATION; TURTLE;

ANIMALIA; CARETTA; CARETTA CARETTA; TESTUDINES;

EID: 51949088031     PISSN: 00074977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (43)

1. Barber, R., R. Smith, R. Dugdale, F. Chai, Y. Chao, F. Chavez, J. O'Brien, and C. Mooers. 2006. Coastal upwelling research is poised to improve the management and conservation of fish resources dramatically. EOS Trans. Am. Geophys. Union 87: suppl.
2. Bjorndal, K. A. 1997. Foraging ecology and nutrition of sea turtles. Pages 199-231 in P. L. Lutz and J. A. Musick, eds. The biology of sea turtles. CRC Press, Boca Raton.
3. _, A. B. Bolten, and H. R. Martins. 2000. Somatic growth model of juvenile loggerhead sea turtles Caretta caretta: duration of pelagic stage. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 202: 265-272.
4. _, A. B. Bolten, B. Koike, B. A. Schroeder, D. J. Shaver, W. G. Teas, and W. N. Witzell. 2001. Somatic growth function for immature loggerhead sea turtles, Caretta caretta, in southeastern U.S. waters. Fish. Bull., U.S., 99: 240-246.
5. Bleckner, T. and H. Hillebrand. 2002. North Atlantic Oscillation signatures in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems - a meta-analysis. Global Change Biol. 8: 203-212.
6. Brown, J. S. and B. P. Kotler. 2004. Hazardous duty pay and the foraging cost of predation. Ecol. Lett. 7: 999-1014.
7. Caretta, J. V., T. Price, D. Petersen, and R. Read. 2004. Estimates of marine mammal, sea turtle, and seabird mortality in the California drift gillnet fishery for swordfish and thresher shark, 1996-2002. Mar. Fish. Rev. 66: 21-30.
8. Childress, M. J. and W. F. Herrnkind. 2001. Influence of conspecifics on the ontogenetic habitat shift of juvenile Caribbean spiny lobsters. Mar. Freshw. Res. 52: 1077-1084.
9. Clark, W. G. and S. R. Hare. 2002. Effects of climate and stock size on recruitment and growth of Pacific halibut. N. Am. J. Fish. Manage. 22: 852-862.
10. Dahlgren, C. P. and D. B. Eggleston. 2000. Ecological processes underlying ontogenetic habitat shifts in a coral reef fish. Ecology 81: 2227-2240.
11. Epperly, S. P. and W. G. Teas. 2002. Turtle excluder devices-are the escape openings large enough? Fish. Bull., U.S., 100: 466-474.
12. Etherington, L. L., D. B. Eggleston, and W. T. Stockhausen. 2003. Partitioning loss rates of early juvenile blue crabs from seagrass habitats into mortality and emigration. Bull. Mar. Sci. 72: 371-391.
13. Gardner, S. C. and W. J. Nichols. 2001. Assessment of sea turtle mortality rates in the Baja Magdalena region, Baja California Sur, Mexico. Chelonian Conserv. Biol. 4: 197-199.
14. Gilman, E., D. Kobayashi, T. Swenarton, N. Brothers, P. Dalzell, and I. Kinan-Kelly. 2007. Reducing sea turtle interactions in the Hawaii-based longline swordfish fishery. Biol. Conserv. 139: 19-28.
15. Helama, S., B. R. Schöne, A. J. Kirchhefer, J. K. Nielson, D. L. Rodland, and R. Janssen. 2007. Compound response of marine and terrestrial ecosystems to varying climate: pre-anthropogenic perspective from bivalve shell growth increments and tree-rings. Mar. Environ. Res. 63: 185-199.
16. Henderson, P. A. and R. M. Seaby 2005. The role of climate in determining the temporal variation in abundance, recruitment and growth of sole Solea solea in the Bristol Channel. J. Mar. Biol. Assoc. U.K. 85: 197-204.
17. Holbrook, S. J. and R. J. Schmitt. 1988. The combined effects of predation risk and food reward on patch selection. Ecology 69: 125-134.
18. Hughes, G. R. 1974. The sea turtles of south-east Africa I: status, morphology and distributions. Investigational Report 35. Oceanographic Research Institute, Durban, South Africa. 144 p.
19. Hurrell, J. W. 1995. NAO index data provided by the Climate Analysis Section, NCAR, Boulder, USA. Available from: http://www.cgd.ucar.edu/cas/ jhurrell/indices.html.
20. Laurel, B. J., R. S. Gregory, and J. A. Brown. 2003. Settlement and distribution of Age-0 juvenile cod, Gadus morhua and G. ogac, following a large-scale habitat manipulation. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 262: 241-252.
21. Lehodey, P., J. Alheit, M. Barange, T. Baumgartner, G. Beaugrand, K. Drinkwater, J.-M. Fromentin, S. R. Hare, G. Ottersen, R. I. Perry, C. Roy, C. D. van der Lingen, and F. Werner. 2006. Climate variability, fish, and fisheries. J. Clim. 19: 5009-5030.
22. Lewison, R. L., S. A. Freeman, and L. B. Crowder. 2004. Quantifying the effects of fisheries on threatened species: the impact of pelagic longlines on loggerhead and leatherback sea turtles. Ecol. Lett. 7: 221-231.
23. Limpus, C. J. and D. J. Limpus. 2003. Biology of the loggerhead turtle in western South Pacific Ocean foraging areas. Pages 93-113 in A. B. Bolten and B. E. Witherington, eds. Loggerhead sea turtles. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
24. Mantua, N. J., S. R. Hare, Y. Zhang, J. M. Wallace, and R. C. Francis. 1997. A Pacific interdecadal climate oscillation with impacts on salmon production. Bull. Am. Meteorol. Soc. 78: 1069-1079.
25. McClellan, C. M. and A. J. Read. 2007. Complexity and variation in loggerhead sea turtle life history. Biol. Lett. 3: 592-594.
26. McCormick, M. I. 1998. Ontogeny of diet shifts by a microcarnivorous fish, Cheilodactylus spectabilis: relationship between feeding mechanics, microhabitat selection and growth. Mar. Biol. 132: 9-20.
27. Nichols, W. J., A. Resendiz, J. A. Seminoff, and B. Resendiz. 2000. Transpacific migration of a loggerhead turtle monitored by satellite telemetry. Bull. Mar. Sci. 67: 937-947.
28. NMFS (National Marine Fisheries Service). 2001. Stock assessments of loggerhead and leatherback sea turtles and an assessment of the impact of the pelagic longline fishery on the loggerhead and leatherback sea turtles of the western North Atlantic. U.S. Department of Commerce. NOAA Tech. Memo. NMFSSEFSC-455. 343 p.
29. Ottersen, G., B. Planque, A. Belgrano, E. Post, P. C. Reid, and N. C. Stenseth. 2001. Ecological effects of the North Atlantic Oscillation. Oecologia 128:1-14.
30. Parker, D. M., W. J. Cooke, and G. H. Balazs. 2005. Diet of oceanic loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) in the central North Pacific. Fish. Bull., U.S., 103: 142-152.
31. Polovina, J., I. Uchida, G. Balazs, E. A. Howell, D. Parker, and P. Dutton. 2006. The Kuroshio extension bifurcation region: a pelagic hotspot for juvenile loggerhead sea turtles. Deep-Sea Res. 53: 326-339.
32. Saba, V. S., P. Santidrián-Tomillo, R. D. Reina, J. R. Spotila, J. A. Musick, D. A. Evans, and F. V. Paladino. 2007. The effect of El Niño Southern Oscillation on the reproductive frequency of eastern Pacific leatherback turtles. J. Appl. Ecol. 44: 395-404.
33. Schmitt, R. J. and S. J. Holbrook. 1985. Patch selection by juvenile black surfperch (Embiotocidae) under variable risk: interactive influence of food quality and structural complexity. J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol. 85: 269-285.
34. Schreer, J. F. and K. M. Kovacs. 1997. Allometry of diving capacity in air-breathing vertebrates. Can. J. Zool. 75: 339-358.
35. Snover, M. L., G. M. Watters, and M. Mangel. 2005. Interacting effects of behavior and oceanography on growth in salmonids with examples for coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch). Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 62: 1219-1230.
36. _, and _. 2006. Top-down and bottom-up control of life-history strategies in coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch). Am. Nat. 167: E140-E157.
37. Steele, M. A. and G. E. Forrester. 2002. Variation in the relative importance of sublethal effects of predators and competitors on growth of a temperate reef fish. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 237: 233-245.
38. Stenseth, N. C., G. Ottersen, J. W. Hurrell, A. Mysterud, M. Lima, K.-S. Chan, N. G. Yoccoz, and B. Ådlandsvik. 2003. Studying climate effects on ecology through the use of climate indices: the North Atlantic Oscillation, El Niño Southern Oscillation and beyond. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B Biol. Sci. 270: 2087-2096.
39. Stunz, G. W. and T. J. Minello. 2001. Habitat related predation on juvenile wild-caught and hatchery-reared red drum Sciaenops ocellatus (Linnaeus). J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol. 260: 13-25.
40. Werner, E. E. 1988. Size, scaling, and the evolution of complex life cycles. Pages 60-81 in B. Ebenman and L. Persson, eds. Size-structured populations. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
41. _and J. F. Gilliam. 1984. The ontogenetic niche and species interactions in size-structured populations. Annu. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 15: 393-425.
42. _and D. J. Hall. 1988. Ontogenetic habitat shifts in bluegill: the foraging rate-predation risk trade-off. Ecology 69: 1352-1366.
43. _, D. J. Hall, and G. G. Mittelbach. 1983. An experimental test of the effects of predation risk on habitat use in fish. Ecology 64: 1540-1548.