The common murre (Uria aalge), a vital predator in northern marine ecosystems, bore the brunt of this climatic upheaval, losing an estimated 4 million individuals—roughly half of its Alaska ...
Heather Renner, Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge supervisory biologist, published research in December that shows true common murre mortality rates were closer to four times that number ...
Common murre colony on the South Island of Semidi Islands, in the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge south of the Alaska Peninsula, in 2014, before the marine heat wave. Disclaimer ...