The potential and realized foraging movements of bees are differentially determined by body size and sociality

LK Kendall, JM Mola, ZM Portman, DP Cariveau… - 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Reversing biodiversity declines requires a better understanding of organismal mobility, as
movement processes dictate the scale at which species interact with the environment …

Local prey shortages drive foraging costs and breeding success in a declining seabird, the Atlantic puffin

AL Fayet, GV Clucas, T Anker‐Nilssen… - Journal of Animal …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
As more and more species face anthropogenic threats, understanding the causes of
population declines in vulnerable taxa is essential. However, long‐term datasets, ideal to …

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 …

An overview of the impacts of fishing on seabirds, including identifying future research directions

SC Votier, RB Sherley, KL Scales… - ICES Journal of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Knowledge of fisheries impacts, past and present, is essential for understanding the
ecology and conservation of seabirds, but in a rapidly changing world, knowledge and …

The ecology and evolution of colony-size variation

CR Brown - Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 2016 - Springer
Animals often breed in colonies that can vary in size by several orders of magnitude. Colony-
size variation is perplexing because individuals in some colony sizes have lower fitness …

Direct evidence of a prey depletion “halo” surrounding a pelagic predator colony

SB Weber, AJ Richardson, J Brown… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Colonially breeding birds and mammals form some of the largest gatherings of apex
predators in the natural world and have provided model systems for studying mechanisms of …

Breeding density, fine‐scale tracking, and large‐scale modeling reveal the regional distribution of four seabird species

ED Wakefield, E Owen, J Baer, MJ Carroll… - Ecological …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Population‐level estimates of species' distributions can reveal fundamental ecological
processes and facilitate conservation. However, these may be difficult to obtain for mobile …

The global distribution of angiosperm genome size is shaped by climate

P Bureš, TL Elliott, P Veselý, P Šmarda… - New …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Angiosperms, which inhabit diverse environments across all continents, exhibit significant
variation in genome sizes, making them an excellent model system for examining …

Foraging range scales with colony size in high-latitude seabirds

A Patterson, HG Gilchrist, S Benjaminsen, M Bolton… - Current Biology, 2022 - cell.com
Density-dependent prey depletion around breeding colonies has long been considered an
important factor controlling the population dynamics of colonial animals. 1–4 Ashmole …

Marine important bird and biodiversity areas for penguins in Antarctica, targets for conservation action

J Handley, MM Rouyer, EJ Pearmain… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Global targets for area-based conservation and management must move beyond threshold-
based targets alone and must account for the quality of such areas. In the Southern Ocean …