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Foraging Ecology Differentiates Life Stages and Mercury Exposure in Common Terns (Sterna hirundo). [PDF]
Integr Environ Assess Manag, 2021 Bracey AM +6 more
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Ecography, EarlyView.Animal coloration exhibits substantial biogeographic variation, reflecting complex adaptations to both abiotic and biotic environments. Although the evolutionary mechanisms underlying avian plumage coloration have been widely studied, geographic variation in plumage patterning has received far less attention.
Yuqing Han +8 more
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Spatial organisation and feeding ecology of the American mink (Mustela vison) in a coastal habitat [PDF]
, 1996 The American mink (Mustela vison Schreber) is the only introduced carnivore that has successfully colonised the British Isles. In the present study, the important problem of understanding which are the factors that limit or enhance their number has been ...
Bonesi, Laura
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Population-specific sex and size variation in long-term foraging ecology of belugas and narwhals. [PDF]
R Soc Open Sci, 2021 Louis M +5 more
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Ecography, EarlyView.Harmful Microcystis proliferation severely threatens aquatic ecosystems globally, but its impacts on food‐web stability remain poorly understood. Here, we analyzed 1309 metagenomic samples from freshwater ecosystems across China to investigate how Microcystis abundance affects synchrony among taxa in multi‐trophic food webs (from bacteriophages to ...
Lemian Liu +6 more
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Optimal foraging strategies can be learned
New Journal of PhysicsThe foraging behavior of animals is a paradigm of target search in nature. Understanding which foraging strategies are optimal and how animals learn them are central challenges in modeling animal foraging.
Gorka Muñoz-Gil +3 more
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Ecography, EarlyView.Habitat fragmentation alters species diversity and reshapes community composition. However, conventional pairwise approaches to compositional variation (i.e. beta diversity metrics) do not explicitly characterize how species sharing or turnover change with the number of habitat patches.
Shirui Yu +11 more
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From patterns to predictions: a framework for the spatial epidemiology of wildlife diseases
Ecography, EarlyView.Wildlife diseases pose a significant threat to biodiversity conservation, public health, and livestock. Spatial epidemiology provides a robust framework to understand disease dynamics and guide policy and management. However, the rapid proliferation of spatial methods has largely occurred in isolation across disciplines, leaving the field without a ...
Cesar Herraiz, Pelayo Acevedo
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The foraging behaviour and population dynamics of the northern gannet [PDF]
, 2002 The northern gannet Morus bassanus population has been increasing in size over the last century. Larger gannet colonies in the British Isles are growing more slowly per capita than the smaller ones.
Lewis, Sue
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Ecography, EarlyView.Predator–prey interactions can trigger behavioural responses in ungulates, influencing their space‐use and foraging behaviour and, in turn, indirectly affecting browsing pressure. Changes in browsing pressure can affect plant recruitment and species composition, shaping forest regeneration through predator‐mediated trophic cascades.
Walter Di Nicola +9 more
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