Diet estimation in marine mammals relies on indirect methods including recovery of prey hard parts from stomachs and feces, quantitative fatty acid signature analysis (QFASA) …
The study of animal movement has always been a key element in ecological science, because it is inherently linked to critical processes that scale from individuals to populations …
Recent developments in animal tracking technology have permitted the collection of detailed data on the movement paths of individuals from many species. However, analysis methods …
Highlights•Technological advances provide new insights into marine mammal behaviour.•We highlight four areas of technological advances.•Aerial systems …
Identifying drivers of infectious disease patterns and impacts at the broadest scales of organisation is one of the most crucial challenges for modern science, yet answers to many …
State-space models provide a powerful way to scale up inference of movement behaviours from individuals to populations when the inference is made across multiple individuals …
SR Benson, T Eguchi, DG Foley, KA Forney… - …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
The western Pacific leatherback turtle (Dermochelys coriacea), one of three genetically distinct stocks in the Indo‐Pacific region, has declined markedly during past decades. This …
We review present understanding of the spatial and temporal diet variability (trophodynamics) of a range of pelagic marine top predators, at both early and adult life …
DP Costa, GA Breed… - Annual review of ecology …, 2012 - annualreviews.org
Highly pelagic large marine vertebrates have evolved the capability of moving across large expanses of the marine environment; some species routinely move across entire ocean …