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1 Funding for this work, including publication expenses, was provided by THE SOUTHWEST FISHERIES CENTER HONOLULULABORATORYOF THE NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE, NOAA and THE US. FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE 2 WILDLIFE MONOGRAPHS Roy L. Kirkpatrick, Editor Department of Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA 24061 Consulting Editors for this Issue: David G. Ainley, Point Reves Bird Observatory, Stint- son Beach, CA 94970 A. W. Diamond, Department of Zoology, Edward Grey Institute of Field Ornithology, Oxford OX1 3PS, United Kingdom Editorial Assistant: Thelma J. Kirkpatrick The Wildlife Society believes that increased awareness and appreciation of wildlife values is an important objective. Society publications are one means of doing this. Wildlife Monographs was begun in 195i to provide for longer papers than those normally accepted for The Journal of Wildlife ikfanagement. There is no set schedule for publication. 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Any contribution will be accepted with grati- tudc by The Wildlife Society. klemorial funds collected to honor and perpetuate the names of deceased members of the profession probabl!. could he put to no better use. ,G' The Wildlife Society, Inc. 1983 3 WILDLIFE MONOGRAPHS (ISSN 0084-0173) A Publication of The Wildlife Society HAWAIIAN SEABIRD FEEDING ECOLOGY by CRAIG S. HARRISON, THOMAS S. HIDA, AND MICHAEL P. SEKl OCTOBER 1983 NO. 85 4 FRONTISPIECE.White tern carrying flyingfish (Parexocoetus brachypterus). French Frigate Shoals. 5 HAWAIIAN SEABIRD FEEDING ECOLOGY CRAIG S. HARRISON’ US. Fish and Wildlife Service, P.O. Box 50167, Honolulu, HI 96850 THOMAS S. HlDA Southwest Fisheries Center Honolulu Laboratory, National Marine Fisheries Service, NOAA, P.O. Box 3830, Honolulu, HI 9681 2 MICHAEL P. SEKl Southwest Fisheries Center Honolulu Laboratory, National Marine Fisheries Service, NOAA, P.O. Box 3830, Honolulu, HI 96812 .Abstract: The North\vestern Ha\vaiian Islands are the nesting grounds of about 10 millioii seabirds ot 18 species. Fisher! de\elopmeirt prop,osals for this area led to a need for food habit studies (if thrse hirtls to aid in their managemrnt. Food habits are divrrse. \\ itti 56 families of fish. 8 fanlilies of squid. and 11 groups of crustaceans identified Similar to ottitsr tropical seabird comninnities. this cornmunit) feeds largel! on flyingfishes and squids. 111 addition, hou e\er, this comnrnnit! consumes man! Ilacapterzis spp , juvenile goatfishes, juvenile lizardfishes. and mesopelagic fishe\ that rarrl? occur in the tfirts of tropical sealiirtls elsewhere. Albatrosses fed largely on squids and flyingfish eggs. They also ate niany mysids. isopods, leptos- tracans, and shrimps that occur in very deep \vater. Pelecaniforms ate large flyingfishes and Decapterus spp , many of \vhich \\ere more than 25 cm in length Squids, especiall) the wrface-tl\velling Onimastrephidae, \\ere consiimed frequentl! (:ertain booliies ate Pacific sauries. anchob ies. and juvenile goatfishes at some locations. The terns arid sheanvaters that usuall! feed in association \\it11 predator! fishes ate 2-8 cm pre), especially small omrnastrephid squids aiitl juveiiile forms of fl, ingtishes. goatfishes. lizardfishes, aid Decap- term spp. Small nocturnal-feeding procellariiforms ate man) 1-3 cm mesopelagic organisms such as lan- ternfishes, hatchetfishes, bristlemouths, and squids. Small terns ate primaril! juvenile tlyingfishes, goatfishes. lizardfishes, dolphin-fishes, and a cou fish In addition. the blue-gray nodd\ ate minute prty srich as wa- striders and copepeds. Most birds feed most of their )ourrg during the spring and summer Breeding in thr North\vtxstrrn Ha\\ aiian lslaritls is corrrlatetl \r ith and ma! be contrcilletl h! thr period (if inaxinruin a\ail- ability of food. Breeding seasons fcir seahirtls in tropical climates are generally less predictable compartd to seabird communities in temperate or cold \\ atrr regimes. The relative predictabilit) (if the breeding seasmi for tropical seabirds in the Ha\raiian Archipelago ma! he t~xplained13, the fact that most islands there art’ subtropical Many st&ircIs in Hawaii breed at the northmi cxtent (if their range. Some srabird species breed largely during \vinter. Several of these species are adapted for nocturnal feeding. Other \I inter brrt&ng species may be outcompeted for nesting sites during spring antl siimnicr by larger spccirs that have similar nesting requirements. Poor \\rather conditioirs clriring \\ inter may also encourage spring arrtl summer 1lree.d- irig for sonre species. .-\I1 seabirds \\.err (ipportunistic and fed on a \vide variet) of shoaling fish and squid Thvy apparently took air) organism of appropriate size that occurred in surface watrrs. \’ariation in dirt for most species was more correlated \\ ith season than \\ ith locatioii Some resource partitioning among species \vas evident both in the composition antl in the size of prr!. Difference5 in dirt ma) reflect tliffrrt,ncrs among species in morpholog! , feeding technique, time of clay that feeding occurs, srasoiialit) of Iiweding, or feeding location. The most tiitnier~ii~species in this community are tlrose that ate man! squid Tht. population differences among sprcies ins) tie merel! ancithrr e\pressi(in of the proposition that pelagic feeding seabirds are more nunieroris thati irrshort~frctling seabirds iri tropical \\aters. Man! tuntlamental questions concerning the tii(ilog> of tropical and srilltropical seal,irtls cannot be ans\veretl until bettear ~neth(itls of measuring the a\aiiabilit) of pre! art. de\e1oped Our results \vi11 ena~ile\\,ikllife d.rd fishrr) rnariagers to more accriratelv predict the effects of bnrious tisheries (in rnarine Iiirds WILDL. MONOGR. 85, 7-77 1 Present address Environment and Poh Center, The East-\\ est Center, 1777 East-west Road, IIonolulu, HI 96848 6 WILDLIFEMONOGRAPHS CONTENTS INTRODUCTION............................................................................. 6 Bonin Petrel ...................................................................... 37 Acknowledgments ........................................................... 7 Gra y-backed Tern ........................................................... 39 THE NORTHWESTERN HAWAIIAN ISLANDS ....... 8 White Tern (Fairy Tern)........................................... 40 METHODS ........................................................................................... 9 Black Noddy ...................................................................... 43 Field Collection of Food Samples ............................... 9 Bulwer’s Petrel ................................................................. 44 Laboratory Procedures.......................................................... 1 1 Sooty Storm-petrel ........................................................... 46 Prey Identification...................................................................... 13 Blue-gray Noddy .......................................................... 48 Data Analysis ........................................................................... 14 Prey Length Comparisons ............................................... 49 RESULTS ........................................................................................... 15 DISCUSSION.................................................................................. 50 Species Accounts...................................................................... 15 Albatrosses .............................................................................. 52 Black-footed Albatross ................................................. 15 Pelecaniformes ........................................................................... 55 Laysan Albatross ................................................................ 18 Terns and Shearwaters Associated with Preda- Masked Booby ...................................................................... 20 tory Fishes ............................................................................ 56 Great Frigatebird ......................................................... 22 Small Nocturnal Procellariiforms .................................... 58 Brown Booby ........................................................................ 23 Neuston Feeding Terns ......................................................... 59 Red-footed Booby ............................................................. 25 Timing of Breeding Season and Food Avail- Red-tailed Tropicbird ................................................. 27 ability ............................................................................................
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    Progress in Oceanography 184 (2020) 102318 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Progress in Oceanography journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/pocean Are abyssal scavenging amphipod assemblages linked to climate cycles? T ⁎ Tammy Hortona, , Michael H. Thurstona, Rianna Vlierboomb,c, Zoe Gutteridgeb,d, Corinne A. Pebodya, Andrew R. Gatesa, Brian J. Betta a National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, European Way, Southampton SO14 3ZH, UK b School of Ocean and Earth Science, University of Southampton Waterfront Campus, European Way, Southampton SO14 3ZH, UK c Eurofins Aquasense, H.J.E. Wenckebachweg 120, 1114 AD Amsterdam-Duivendrecht, the Netherlands d Environment Agency, Bromholme Lane, Brampton, Cambridgeshire PE28 4NE, UK ARTICLE INFO ABSTRACT Keywords: Scavenging amphipods are a numerically dominant and taxonomically diverse group that are key necrophages in Time series analysis deep-sea environments. They contribute to the detrital food web by scavenging large food-falls and provide a Trap fishing food source for other organisms, at bathyal and abyssal depths. Samples of this assemblage have been collected Particulate flux at the Porcupine Abyssal Plain Sustained Observatory (PAP-SO) in the North Atlantic (48°50′N 16°30′W, Benthos 4850 m) for > 30 years. They were collected by means of baited traps between 1985 and 2016, covering a period Atlantic multi-decadal oscillation of well-characterised changes in the upper ocean. From the 19 samples analysed, a total of 16 taxa were Porcupine Abyssal Plain, North Atlantic identified from 106,261 specimens. Four taxa, Abyssorchomene chevreuxi (Stebbing, 1906), Paralicella tenuipes Chevreux, 1908, P. caperesca Shulenberger & Barnard, 1976, and Eurythenes spp., dominated catches and were present in all samples.
  • Phylogenetic Relationships Among Hadal Amphipods of the Superfamily Lysianassoidea

    Phylogenetic Relationships Among Hadal Amphipods of the Superfamily Lysianassoidea

    1 Phylogenetic relationships among hadal amphipods of the Superfamily Lysianassoidea: 2 Implications for taxonomy and biogeography 3 Authors: Ritchie, H.,a Jamieson, A.J.,b and Piertney, S.B.a 4 a Institute of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Zoology Building, 5 Aberdeen AB24 2TZ, UK 6 b Oceanlab, University of Aberdeen, Newburgh, Aberdeenshire AB41 6AA, UK 7 Corresponding Author: Ritchie, H.a email: [email protected] 8 Highlights: 9 Phylogenetic relationships among hadal Lysianassoidea amphipods, based on mitochondrial 10 and nuclear DNA sequence variation, showed an incongruence between molecular 11 phylogeny and classification based on morphological characters 12 Some of the Lysianassoidea taxa do not form monophyletic clades at the family, genus and 13 species levels 14 Cryptic species-level diversity is shown in two genera (Eurythenes and Paralicella) 15 Hirondellea dubia has a greater geographical range than previously considered 16 The Lysianassoidea includes species with an abyssal cosmopolitan distribution, and species 17 found only in trenches that show bathymetric partitioning 18 Abstract 19 Amphipods of the superfamily Lysianassoidea are ubiquitous at hadal depths (>6000 m) and 20 therefore are an ideal model group for investigating levels of endemism and the drivers of speciation 21 in deep ocean trenches. The taxonomic classification of hadal amphipods is typically based on 22 conventional morphological traits but it has been suggested that convergent evolution, phenotypic 23 plasticity, intra-specific variability and ontogenetic variation may obscure the ability to robustly 24 diagnose taxa and define species. Here we use phylogenetic analysis of DNA sequence variation at 25 two mitochondrial (COI and 16S rDNA) and one nuclear (18S rDNA) regions at to examine the 26 evolutionary relationships among 25 putative amphipod species representing 14 genera and 11 27 families that were sampled from across seven hadal trenches.