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Summer-time use of west coast US National Marine Sanctuaries by migrating sooty shearwaters (Puffinus griseus)

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  • Non-breeding sooty shearwaters are the most abundant seabird in the California Current Large Marine Ecosystem (CCLME) during boreal spring and summer months. This, combined with relatively great energy demands, reliance on patchy, shoaling prey (krill, squid, and forage fishes), and unconstrained mobility free from central-place-foraging demands-make shearwaters useful indicators of ecosystem variability. During 2008 and 2009, we used satellite telemetry to evaluate shearwater ranging patterns throughout the CCLME and specifically within the US Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) among birds captured at three locations: Columbia River Plume, WA; Monterey Bay, CA; and Santa Barbara Channel, CA. Shearwaters ranged throughout the entire CCLME from southeast Alaska to southern Baja California, Mexico. Within the EEZ during 2008 and 2009, shearwaters spent 68% and 46% of time over the shelf (< 200 m), 27% and 43% of time over the slope (200-1000 m), and 5% and 11% of time over the continental rise and abyssal regions (> 1000 m), respectively. In 2008 and 2009, shearwaters spent 22% and 25% of their time in the EEZ within the five west coast National Marine Sanctuaries, respectively; high utilization occurred in non-sanctuary waters of the EEZ. Shearwater utilization distribution (based on the Brownian-bridge movement model) among sanctuaries was disproportionate according to sanctuary availability (based on area) within the EEZ. Shearwaters utilized the Monterey Bay sanctuary (2008, 2009) and the Channel Islands sanctuary (2009) disproportionately more than other sanctuaries. Although all five sanctuaries were used by shearwaters, waters outside sanctuary zones appeared significantly more important and likely supported large aggregations of shearwaters. Utilization distributions among individual birds from three discrete capture locations were variable and revealed greater similarity in space-use sharing within capture-location groupings and during 2008 when shearwaters were more aggregated than in 2009. We identified several regional "habitat hotspot" areas, including the Columbia River Plume, Cape Blanco, Monterey Bay, Estero/San Luis Obispo Bays, and the eastern Santa Barbara Channel through the inner Southern California Bight. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
  • Keywords: Protected areas, Indicator species, Satellite telemetry, Marine spatial planning, California Current, Habitat hotspots, Space-use, Seabirds, Ecosystem management
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  • Adams, J., MacLeod, C., Suryan, R., Hyrenbach, K., & Harvey, J. (2012). Summer-time use of west coast US national marine sanctuaries by migrating sooty shearwaters (puffinus griseus). Biological Conservation, 156, 105-116. doi: 10.1016/j.biocon.2011.12.032
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  • This publication was prepared by Adams et al. under NOAA Grant #NA08OAR4170669, California Sea Grant Project # R/ENV-204, through NOAA’s National Sea Grant College Program, US Dept. of Commerce; and was supported in part by Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, NOAA Northwest Fisheries Science Center, and the US Geological Survey’s Western Ecological Research Center.
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