Lanchbery said that climate impacts on plankton abundance in the North Sea already have resulted in a substantial reduction in sand eel numbers - a key food species for many seabirds. (ens-newswire.com)
Sand lance, also known as sand eels, tend to burrow into the sandy sediments at night or form nighttime horizontal schools close to the seafloor. (sciencedaily.com)
, when as far as we can see, the pipefish are not themselves being blamed for seabird declines — it's just that pipefish are a poor substitute for sand eels. (climate-resistance.org)