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Commuting in crosswinds and foraging in fast winds: the foraging ecology of a flying fish specialist

open access: yesProceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Understanding how the behaviour of volant species is influenced by winds is important at a time when global airflow patterns and intensities are shifting. We investigated how wind speeds and directions influenced the flight and feeding events of a flap-gliding seabird during central place trips searching for aerial prey like ...
Ruth E. Dunn   +9 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Human pressure, habitat heterogeneity and species traits jointly determine the level of dark diversity in coastal fish communities

open access: yesEcography, EarlyView.
Understanding how anthropogenic pressures and environmental gradients shape coastal fish communities is a central question in biogeography and marine conservation. Yet, the set of species expected to occur at a site given ecological conditions but being absent – the so‐called dark diversity – has received far less attention than observed species, even ...
Loïc Sanchez   +23 more
wiley   +1 more source

Polygenic discrimination of migratory phenotypes in an estuarine forage fish. [PDF]

open access: yesG3 (Bethesda), 2022
Campbell MA   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Spatio‐temporal dynamics of ringed seal density and habitat use in the Arctic's Last Ice Area

open access: yesEcography, EarlyView.
The Arctic is warming at approximately four times the global rate, driving widespread decline in sea ice extent, thickness, and seasonal duration. The ecological consequences of these rapid changes remain poorly understood within the Last Ice Area, a region that includes northern Ellesmere Island and the northwest of Greenland, projected to retain ...
Roxanne D. MacLean   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Disentangling functional spaces: a multidimensional framework for ecology and conservation

open access: yesEcography, EarlyView.
Trait‐based ecology often relies on a single functional space, where diverse traits are combined into one multivariate framework. While convenient, this approach risks masking ecological strategies because variance is often dominated by a few traits, such as body size.
Aurèle Toussaint   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Airborne Remote Sensing of a Biological Hot Spot in the Southeastern Bering Sea

open access: yesRemote Sensing, 2011
Intense, ephemeral foraging events within localized hot spots represent important trophic transfers to top predators in marine ecosystems, though the spatial extent and temporal overlap of predators and prey are difficult to observe using traditional ...
Michael F. Sigler   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Species traits mediate terrestrial mammal density responses to human impacts

open access: yesEcography, EarlyView.
Human activities are reshaping ecosystems, but their effects on species population density remain poorly understood. Most studies focus on species presence–absence, thus limiting insight into how anthropogenic pressures affect population density. Emerging evidence suggests that responses of natural populations to human disturbance are highly variable ...
Luca Santini   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Landscapes of Foraging and Fishing

open access: yes
Abstract The shift from hunting-gathering-fishing (HGF) to pastoralism, or agriculture, marked a major threshold in human history. This chapter introduces north-central Asia via an overview of biogeographies, the geographic distribution of plants and animals, as it may have been prior to the introduction of domesticates.
openaire   +1 more source

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