Climate change and marine top predators / edited by Morten Frederiksen and Tore Haug.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Frederiksen, Morten, editor.

Haug, Tore, editor.

Series:

Frontiers research topics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Predatory marine animals--Climate change.

Predatory marine animals.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (178 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Frontiers Media SA 2016

Lausanne, Switzerland : Frontiers Media SA, 2016.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Marine ecosystems are critically affected by current and future climate change. Expert reviews from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) show that climate change will induce temperature changes and associated adjustments in ocean circulation, ice coverage and sea level. Such changes will affect life-history parameters of marine top predators (mammals, birds, large pelagic fish) via changes in habitat features (e.g. ice cover) and availability of food resources (bottom–up effects), or will alter the role that predators play in marine ecosystems (top-down effects). This collection of papers will include case studies showing how environmental change has affected life-history strategies among large marine predators, or how environmental change may affect the role that these species play as top-level predators in marine ecosystems.

Notes:

Published in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution.

Includes bibliographical references.