{"id":6377,"date":"2018-10-24T17:01:36","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T21:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=6377"},"modified":"2018-11-24T17:20:16","modified_gmt":"2018-11-24T22:20:16","slug":"decadal-weather-system-driven-rainfall-amplifies-owl-predation-on-rare-seabirds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/decadal-weather-system-driven-rainfall-amplifies-owl-predation-on-rare-seabirds\/","title":{"rendered":"Decadal weather system-driven rainfall amplifies owl predation on rare seabirds"},"content":{"rendered":"

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences<\/em><\/a>
\nPublished\u00a0October 24, 2018 17:01 EDT<\/strong> (Brief<\/a> from Royal Society)
\nThe effects of drought-breaking rainfall driven by El Nin\u00f5\/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) ricochets along a chain of interactions between marine and terrestrial food webs, leading to enhanced predation of a rare nocturnal seabird by a population of barn owls on an island in California\u2019s Channel Islands National Park. On Santa Barbara Island, barn owls are the main predator of a nocturnal seabird, the Scripps\u2019s murrelet, as well as an endemic deer mouse. After the mouse population declined steeply, owls killed a 15-fold increase in the number of murrelets.<\/p>\n

Lead author: <\/strong>Sarah Thomsen, Simon Fraser University – sthomsen@sfu.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Published\u00a0October 24, 2018 17:01 EDT (Brief from Royal Society) The effects of drought-breaking rainfall driven by El Nin\u00f5\/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) ricochets along a chain of interactions between marine and terrestrial food webs, leading to enhanced predation of a rare nocturnal seabird by a population of barn owls […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1327,3259,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-scientifique","category-heads-up","category-paper-of-interest"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-1ER","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6386,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6377\/revisions\/6386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}