DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12796
论文题名: Changing gull diet in a changing world: A 150-year stable isotope (δ13C, δ15N) record from feathers collected in the Pacific Northwest of North America
作者: Blight L.K. ; Hobson K.A. ; Kyser T.K. ; Arcese P.
刊名: Global Change Biology
ISSN: 13541013
出版年: 2015
卷: 21, 期: 4 起始页码: 1497
结束页码: 1507
语种: 英语
英文关键词: Carbon-13
; Environmental change
; Glaucous-winged gull
; Indicator species
; Larus glaucescens
; Nitrogen-15
; Salish sea
; Seabird
; Shifting baselines
; Stable isotope
Scopus关键词: bioindicator
; carbon isotope
; dietary shift
; environmental change
; feather
; food availability
; isotopic analysis
; nitrogen isotope
; seabird
; stable isotope
; Pacific Northwest
; Pacific Ocean
; Salish Sea
; Aves
; Invertebrata
; Larus glaucescens
; Pisces
; carbon
; nitrogen
; animal
; British Columbia
; Charadriiformes
; chemistry
; diet
; feather
; feeding behavior
; fish
; food chain
; metabolism
; muscle
; physiology
; population dynamics
; season
; time factor
; Washington
; Animals
; British Columbia
; Carbon Isotopes
; Charadriiformes
; Diet
; Feathers
; Feeding Behavior
; Fishes
; Food Chain
; Muscles
; Nitrogen Isotopes
; Population Dynamics
; Seasons
; Time Factors
; Washington
英文摘要: The world's oceans have undergone significant ecological changes following European colonial expansion and associated industrialization. Seabirds are useful indicators of marine food web structure and can be used to track multidecadal environmental change, potentially reflecting long-term human impacts. We used stable isotope (δ13C, δ15N) analysis of feathers from glaucous-winged gulls (Larus glaucescens) in a heavily disturbed region of the northeast Pacific to ask whether diets of this generalist forager changed in response to shifts in food availability over 150 years, and whether any detected change might explain long-term trends in gull abundance. Sampled feathers came from birds collected between 1860 and 2009 at nesting colonies in the Salish Sea, a transboundary marine system adjacent to Washington, USA and British Columbia, Canada. To determine whether temporal trends in stable isotope ratios might simply reflect changes to baseline environmental values, we also analysed muscle tissue from forage fishes collected in the same region over a multidecadal timeframe. Values of δ13C and δ15N declined since 1860 in both subadult and adult gulls (δ13C, ~ 2-6‰δ15N, ~4-5‰), indicating that their diet has become less marine over time, and that birds now feed at a lower trophic level than previously. Conversely, forage fish δ13C and δ15N values showed no trends, supporting our conclusion that gull feather values were indicative of declines in marine food availability rather than of baseline environmental change. Gradual declines in feather isotope values are consistent with trends predicted had gulls consumed less fish over time, but were equivocal with respect to whether gulls had switched to a more garbage-based diet, or one comprising marine invertebrates. Nevertheless, our results suggest a long-term decrease in diet quality linked to declining fish abundance or other anthropogenic influences, and may help to explain regional population declines in this species and other piscivores. © 2014 John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Citation statistics:
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标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/61852
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作者单位: Centre for Applied Conservation Research, University of British Columbia, 2424 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC, Canada; Procellaria Research and Consulting, 944 Dunsmuir Road, Victoria, BC, Canada; Environment Canada, 11 Innovation Blvd, Saskatoon, Canada; Department of Geological Sciences and Geological Engineering, Queen's University, Kingston, one, Canada
Recommended Citation:
Blight L.K.,Hobson K.A.,Kyser T.K.,et al. Changing gull diet in a changing world: A 150-year stable isotope (δ13C, δ15N) record from feathers collected in the Pacific Northwest of North America[J]. Global Change Biology,2015-01-01,21(4)