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The article discusses a study on the effect of diverse oceanographic conditions and prey communities on the foraging behavior of little auks Alle alle in Greenland Sea. The study used time-depth recorders to compare the diving behavior and time allocation of little auks breeding adjacent to the East Greenland Current (EGC), the Sørkapp Current (SC), and West Spitsbergen Current (WSC). The study found that EGC is a favorable foraging environment than WSC and SC.

The article discusses findings of a study which compared food availability, chick diet and provisioning, as well as the body mass and stress level of parents and chicks of little auk Alle alle in two colonies with foraging areas that have varying oceanographic conditions, namely the Arctic and Atlantic environments. One measure of the breeding efforts of parents is provisioning behavior. Brief information about the little auk Alle alle is presented. Based on several experimental studies, one factor that affect the body conditions and stress level of little auk parents with clipped flight feathers is increasing flight cost.

The article presents a study which looked at the at-sea distribution of foraging little auks across the Greenland Sea in order to understand the impact of climate change on Arctic marine food webs. The researchers stated the possibility that foraging little auks would be found in greatest abundance in cold Arctic waters bearing more lipid-rich prey and that would allow them to deliver more energy-rich food to their chicks. They used a coupled atmosphere-ocean global climate model (AOGCM) in order to assess potential future impacts of ocean warming. A total of 27 complete chick meal samples were collected in Greenland between the period July 25-August 7 and 33 in Hornsund.