Extreme Mortality and Reproductive Failure of Common Murres Resulting from the Northeast Pacific Marine Heatwave of 2014-2016

19 Jul Extreme Mortality and Reproductive Failure of Common Murres Resulting from the Northeast Pacific Marine Heatwave of 2014-2016

Kirsten Lindquist, Greater Farallones Association co-authored this paper hypothesizing that “bottom-up and top-down forces created an ‘ectothermic vise’ on forage species led to their system-wide scarcity and resulting in mass mortality of murres and many other fish, bird and mammal species in the region.”