consequences for the relative proportion of the “territorial” vs “roaming” breeding strategies37. The current impacts of climate change could also be positive for bearded seals’ foraging in Svalbard. Benthic biomass and productivity at shallow depths have increased due to less ice scouring and a...
To demonstrate why this may be the case taxonomically, the relative abundance of ASVs at the phyla level in salmon and the different seal groups are shown in Figure 8. These results illustrate how different the phyla represented are in the GI tracts of these two species, and that salmon hav...