A guide for studying among-individual behavioral variation from movement data in the wild

AG Hertel, PT Niemelä, NJ Dingemanse, T Mueller - Movement ecology, 2020 - Springer
Animal tracking and biologging devices record large amounts of data on individual
movement behaviors in natural environments. In these data, movement ecologists often view …

Causes and consequences of individual variation in animal movement

AK Shaw - Movement ecology, 2020 - Springer
Animal movement comes in a variety of 'types' including small foraging movements, larger
one-way dispersive movements, seasonally-predictable round-trip migratory movements …

Personality, foraging behavior and specialization: integrating behavioral and food web ecology at the individual level

BJ Toscano, NJ Gownaris, SM Heerhartz, CJ Monaco - Oecologia, 2016 - Springer
Behavioral traits and diet were traditionally thought to be highly plastic within individuals.
This view was espoused in the widespread use of optimality models, which broadly predict …

Causes and consequences of individual variability and specialization in foraging and migration strategies of seabirds

RA Phillips, S Lewis, J González-Solís… - Marine Ecology Progress …, 2017 - int-res.com
Technological advances in recent years have seen an explosion of tracking and stable
isotope studies of seabirds, often involving repeated measures from the same individuals …

Individual specialization in the foraging and feeding strategies of seabirds: a review

FR Ceia, JA Ramos - Marine biology, 2015 - Springer
Trophic relationships are a central theme in ecology and play a crucial role in the survival of
organisms, because the availability of food resources varies over time and space. Until …

Spatial scales of marine conservation management for breeding seabirds

S Oppel, M Bolton, APB Carneiro, MP Dias, JA Green… - Marine Policy, 2018 - Elsevier
Knowing the spatial scales at which effective management can be implemented is
fundamental for conservation planning. This is especially important for mobile species …

Personality, foraging and fitness consequences in a long lived seabird

SC Patrick, H Weimerskirch - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
While personality differences in animals are defined as consistent behavioural variation
between individuals, the widely studied field of foraging specialisation in marine vertebrates …

Mesoscale fronts as foraging habitats: composite front mapping reveals oceanographic drivers of habitat use for a pelagic seabird

KL Scales, PI Miller, CB Embling… - Journal of the …, 2014 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The oceanographic drivers of marine vertebrate habitat use are poorly understood yet
fundamental to our knowledge of marine ecosystem functioning. Here, we use composite …

Effects of age and reproductive status on individual foraging site fidelity in a long-lived marine predator

SC Votier, AL Fayet, S Bearhop… - … of the Royal …, 2017 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Individual foraging specializations, where individuals use a small component of the
population niche width, are widespread in nature with important ecological and evolutionary …

Individual-based tracking systems in ornithology: welcome to the era of big data

P López-López - Ardeola, 2016 - BioOne
Technological innovations have led to exciting fast-moving developments in science. Today,
we are living in a technology-driven era of biological discovery. Consequently, tracking …