aniMotum, an R package for animal movement data: Rapid quality control, behavioural estimation and simulation

ID Jonsen, WJ Grecian, L Phillips… - Methods in Ecology …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Animal tracking data are indispensable for understanding the ecology, behaviour and
physiology of mobile or cryptic species. Meaningful signals in these data can be obscured …

Spatial link between Adélie penguin foraging effort and krill swarm abundance and distribution

J Riaz, S Bestley, S Wotherspoon, MJ Cox… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Understanding how predator foraging behaviour is influenced by the distribution and
abundance of prey is a fundamental challenge in marine foraging ecology. This is …

[HTML][HTML] Autonomous data sampling for high-resolution spatiotemporal fish biomass estimates

AA Carlsen, M Casini, F Masnadi, O Olsson… - Ecological …, 2024 - Elsevier
Many key ecological dynamics such as biomass distributions are only detectable on a fine
spatiotemporal scale. Autonomous data collection with Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USV) …

Consistent foraging habitat use by a vulnerable breeding seabird highlights potential areas for protection in the mid-Atlantic Ocean

VC Neves, G Carroll, WC Schäfer… - Marine Ecology …, 2023 - int-res.com
Identifying animal foraging habitat can help prioritise areas for conservation and enable
better predictions of how populations respond to environmental change. Recent reductions …

Divergent responses of pelagic and benthic fish body-size structure to remoteness and protection from humans

TB Letessier, D Mouillot, L Mannocci, H Jabour Christ… - Science, 2024 - science.org
Animal body-size variation influences multiple processes in marine ecosystems, but habitat
heterogeneity has prevented a comprehensive assessment of size across pelagic …

Coastal seascape variability in the intensifying East Australian Current southern extension

LR Phillips, N Malan, M Roughan… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Coastal pelagic ecosystems are highly variable in space and time, with environmental
conditions and the distribution of biomass being driven by complex processes operating at …

Seasonal shifts in insect ephemerality drive bat foraging effort

JE Kohles, RA Page, M Wikelski, DKN Dechmann - Current Biology, 2024 - cell.com
Animal foraging is fundamentally shaped by food distribution and availability. 1 However,
the quantification of spatiotemporal food distribution is rare 2 but crucial to explain variation …

Links between the three-dimensional movements of whale sharks (Rhincodon typus) and the bio-physical environment off a coral reef

B D'Antonio, LC Ferreira, M Meekan, PG Thomson… - Movement Ecology, 2024 - Springer
Background Measuring coastal-pelagic prey fields at scales relevant to the movements of
marine predators is challenging due to the dynamic and ephemeral nature of these …

Adélie penguins as ecosystem indicators: foraging behaviour and habitat

J Riaz - 2024 - figshare.utas.edu.au
Understanding the foraging movements and behavioural strategies of animals is a
fundamental aim in ecology. Movement ecology underpins foraging success, which can …