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Ontogeny of foraging behaviour in an opportunistic gull inhabiting urban marine ecosystems

Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.
Urbanization affects ecosystems by reducing biodiversity and displacing species from native habitats. While some suffer, others, like urban wildlife, adapt through innovative feeding and behaviours that improve their fitness in human‐altered settings. Despite research on wildlife in urban areas, the development of foraging behaviour in urban species is
Joan Navarro, Víctor Martín-Vélez, Joan Giménez, José Antonio Garcia, Pablo Cermeño, Jordi Figuerola, Raül Aymí, Tomás Montalvo   +7 more
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Exploitation of Floral Resources and Niche Overlap within an Oil-collecting Bee Guild (Hymenoptera, Apidae) in a Neotropical Savanna

Sociobiology, 2017
Oil bees exploit host plants for resources to feed the adults and offspring, as well as for the construction of their nests. The aim of the current study is to investigate how the species in this guild distribute their foraging effort, and the range in ...
Cândida Maria Lima Aguiar, Juliana Caramés, Flavio França, Efigenia Melo   +3 more
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Delineating seasonal shifts in reindeer habitat and diet selection by integrating GPS telemetry and stable isotope analysis

Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.
Seasonal changes shape herbivore behaviour by altering forage availability and habitat conditions; however, few studies integrate diet and habitat selection data across temporal scales. This study uses seasonality as a unifying framework to combine fine‐scale GPS‐based habitat selection data with broader‐scale dietary information from stable isotope ...
Tamara A. Hiltunen, Sami M. Kivelä, Jouko Kumpula, Jouni O. Aspi, Jeffrey M. Welker   +4 more
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Community‐level effects of Müllerian mimicry on pollinator diversity and functioning

Functional Ecology, EarlyView.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Müllerian mimicry, a mutualistic interaction in which harmful species evolve similar warning signals, is often accompanied by niche divergence among mimetic species. While these aspects have traditionally been studied in an evolutionary context, their community‐level ...
Paola Laiolo, José Ramón Obeso
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Larval diet breadth and wingspan mediate landscape–richness relationship in butterfly communities

Functional Ecology, EarlyView.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Landscape structure and species traits both shape butterfly assemblages, but their joint effects, and how landscapes restructure trait space independently of richness, remain less understood.
Dušanka Vujanović, Maja Knežević, Aleksandra Đorđević, Andrijana Andrić, Milica Ranković Perišić, Marina Janković Milosavljević, Sanja Veselić, Gianalberto Losapio, Maarten de Groot, Ante Vujić, Snežana Radenković   +10 more
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Trophic niche overlap between native bivalves and the invasive Corbicula fluminea

, 2018
Freshwater native bivalves have declined in recent decades and are considered one of the most threatened faunistic groups worldwide. Many mechanisms can be responsible for this declining trend, being competition for resources with invasive bivalve species one example.
Modesto, Vanessa, Dias, Ester, Lopes-Lima, Manuel, Teixeira, Amílcar, Varandas, Simone, Antunes, Carlos, Guilhermino, Lúcia, Ilarri, Martina, Sousa, Ronaldo   +8 more
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Abiotic variables drive different aspects of fish community trait variation and species richness across the continental United States

Journal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.
Trait distributions provide insight into how niches overlap within a broader trait space. By integrating individual‐level trait observations from different communities, we can explore how facets of trait dimensionality vary across environmental conditions.
Alicia McGrew, Crysta Gantz, Brigid Wills, Benjamin Baiser, Sydne Record, Phoebe L. Zarnetske, Angela L. Strecker   +6 more
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Annual Reports to the ESA Council ESA 110th Annual Meeting July, 2025

The Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, EarlyView.
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Apex predators exploit advantageous snow conditions across hunting modes

Journal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.
Advantageous snow conditions—in terms of snow depth and density—are among the most important features of the winter landscape for two apex predators, regardless of hunting strategy. In a warming climate, the knock‐on effects of a diminishing snowpack may reduce the hunting success of multiple large carnivore species.
Benjamin K. Sullender, Taylor R. Ganz, Ross Mower, Jessica D. Lundquist, Brian N. Kertson, Thomas M. Newsome, Aaron J. Wirsing, Laura R. Prugh   +7 more
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Dietary resilience of coral reef fishes to habitat degradation

Journal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.
Metabarcoding of gut contents shows that two common benthic‐feeding reef fishes with different feeding stratgies—a butterflyfish (Chaetodon capistratus) and a hamlet (Hypoplectrus puella)—shift diets on degraded reefs. These shifts mirror contrasting patterns in body condition: butterflyfish showed strong individual variation, whereas condition was ...
Friederike Clever, Richard F. Preziosi, Bryan Nguyen, Brígida De Gracia, Helio Quintero Arrieta, W. Owen McMillan, Andrew H. Altieri, Aaron O'Dea, Nancy Knowlton, Matthieu Leray   +9 more
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