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Somveille, Marius 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6868-5080, Dias, Maria P., Weimerskirch, Henri and Davies, Tammy E.
(2020)
Projected migrations of southern Indian Ocean albatrosses as a response to climate change.
Ecography, 43 (11).
pp. 1683-1691.
ISSN 0906-7590
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Abstract
Anthropogenic climate change is altering the geographical distribution and regular movements of species. Highly-mobile pelagic seabirds, such as albatrosses, are particularly threatened by human activities, such as fisheries bycatch. Predicting the impact of climate change on how these animals roam the ocean is an important step towards making informed conservation decisions. In this study, we used a mechanistic model of migratory movements to predict how the migration of albatross species that breed in the southern Indian Ocean may change between now and the end of the century. The model is able to generate non-breeding movement patterns of albatrosses that correspond to empirical patterns from tracking data, thus providing confidence in the ability of the model to make future predictions. We projected the model using environmental conditions for 2100 based on a scenario assuming high emissions (IPCC RCP 8.5). Overall, we found very little projected change in the non-breeding distribution of albatrosses compared to the present. Some change, however, is predicted for large albatrosses, which, due to their size, are more affected by wind, and are projected to migrate further eastwards in the future scenario. These results contrast with previous analyses focusing on the breeding distribution that used statistical modelling, such as habitat and species distributions models, and predicted poleward shifts in geographical distributions of various seabird species including albatrosses. Therefore, it highlights the need for formal comparison of predicted changes in distribution during different phases of the annual cycle of the albatrosses and/or integration of the different approaches. Our analysis also predicts that the overlap of albatrosses with Regional Fisheries Management Organisations (RFMOs) during the non-breeding season will remain similar in 2100 compared to today. This implies that large-scale by-catch mitigation measures implemented through fisheries management organisations will remain important over the next hundred years of climate change.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | Data availability statement: The data is deposited on BirdLife's Seabird Tracking Database. Funding Information: This study was supported through a grant to the Global Ocean Biodiversity Initiative (GOBI) from the International Climate Initiative (IKI). The German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU) supports this initiative on the basis of a decision adopted by the German Bundestag. |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | bird migration,climate change,fisheries bycatch,future predictions,mechanistic model,seabirds,ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics,sdg 13 - climate action,sdg 14 - life below water ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1100/1105 |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Science > Research Centres > Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Conservation |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 22 Jul 2024 10:32 |
| Last Modified: | 07 Nov 2024 00:54 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/95980 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/ecog.05066 |
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