Geolocator tracking seabird migration and moult reveal large‐scale temperature‐driven isoscapes in the NE Atlantic

Kelly Atkins; Stuart Bearhop; Thomas W. Bodey; W. James Grecian; Keith Hamer; Jorge M. Pereira; Hannah Meinertzhagen; Chris Mitchell; Greg Morgan; Lisa Morgan; Jason Newton; Richard B. Sherley; Stephen C. Votier

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Geolocator tracking seabird migration and moult reveal large‐scale temperature‐driven isoscapes in the NE Atlantic

Kelly Atkins, Stuart Bearhop, Thomas W. Bodey, W. James Grecian, Keith Hamer, Jorge M. Pereira, Hannah Meinertzhagen, Chris Mitchell, Greg Morgan, Lisa Morgan, Jason Newton, Richard B. Sherley, Stephen C. Votier

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Rationale: By combining precision satellite‐tracking with blood sampling, seabirds can be used to validate marine carbon and nitrogen isoscapes, but it is unclear whether a comparable approach using low‐precision light‐level geolocators (GLS) and feather sampling can be similarly effective.

Methods: Here we used GLS to identify wintering areas of northern gannets (Morus bassanus) and sampled winter grown feathers (confirmed from image analysis of non‐breeding birds) to test for spatial gradients in δ13C and δ15N in the NE Atlantic.

Results: By matching winter‐grown feathers with the non‐breeding location of tracked birds we found latitudinal gradients in δ13C and δ15N in neritic waters. Moreover, isotopic patterns were best explained by sea surface temperature. Similar isotope gradients were found in fish muscle sampled at local ports.

Conclusions: Our study reveals the potential of using seabird GLS and feathers to reconstruct large‐scale isotopic patterns.

Original language	English
Article number	e9489
Journal	Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry
Volume	37
Issue number	9
Early online date	12 Feb 2023
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/rcm.9489
Publication status	Published - 15 May 2023

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Atkins, K., Bearhop, S., Bodey, T. W., Grecian, W. J., Hamer, K., Pereira, J. M., Meinertzhagen, H., Mitchell, C., Morgan, G., Morgan, L., Newton, J., Sherley, R. B., & Votier, S. C. (2023). Geolocator tracking seabird migration and moult reveal large‐scale temperature‐driven isoscapes in the NE Atlantic. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 37(9), Article e9489. https://doi.org/10.1002/rcm.9489

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Geolocator tracking seabird migration and moult reveal large‐scale temperature‐driven isoscapes in the NE Atlantic

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