Using population abundance data from 1967 to 2016, researchers report a correlation between the increasing abundance of pink salmon in the North Pacific Ocean and the declining abundance and productivity at breeding sites in southeastern Australia of short-tailed shearwaters, which migrate between nesting grounds in the South Pacific Ocean and wintering grounds in the North Pacific Ocean, highlighting a transhemispheric ecosystem link spanning 15,000 km of the Pacific Ocean.
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Article #17-20577: "Transhemispheric ecosystem disservices of pink salmon in a Pacific Ocean macrosystem," by Alan M. Springer et al.
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences