Facilitative interactions among the pelagic community of temperate migratory terns, tunas and dolphins

We studied habitat and behavioral interactions among the marine community of top pelagic predators over the Atlantic continental shelf, observed from shipboard surveys off the northeastern United States. We hypothesized that foraging seabirds, specifically common terns Sterna hirundo and roseate terns S. dougallii , associate positively with the distribution and abundance of large, easily‐detected subsurface marine predators, as a result of...