Behavioural ecology at the spatial–social interface

QMR Webber, GF Albery, DR Farine… - Biological …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Spatial and social behaviour are fundamental aspects of an animal's biology, and their
social and spatial environments are indelibly linked through mutual causes and shared …

What do caribou eat? A review of the literature on caribou diet

QMR Webber, KM Ferraro, JG Hendrix… - Canadian Journal of …, 2022 - cdnsciencepub.com
Historically, the study of caribou and reindeer (Rangifer tarandus (Linnaeus, 1788)) diet has
been specific to herds and few comprehensive circumpolar analyses of Rangifer diet exist …

Competition shapes individual foraging and survival in a desert rodent ensemble

PJ Manlick, K Maldonado… - Journal of Animal …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Intraspecific variation, including individual diet variation, can structure populations and
communities, but the causes and consequences of individual foraging strategies are often …

Scale‐dependent effects of niche specialisation: The disconnect between individual and species ranges

S Huang, MA Tucker, AG Hertel, A Eyres… - Ecology …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
One of the most general expectations of species range dynamics is that widespread species
tend to have broader niches. However, it remains unclear how this relationship is expressed …

The interplay of resource availability and parent foraging strategies on juvenile sparrow individual specialization

N Ricote, C Weinberger… - Journal of Avian …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Temporal variation in resource availability, amplified by global change, may have strong
impacts on species breeding at temperate and high latitudes that cue their reproduction to …

Animal personality drives individual dietary specialisation across multiple dimensions in a mammalian herbivore

APHM Herath, KKY Wat, PB Banks… - Functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Animal personality influences how individuals perceive and react to different stimuli, such as
food quality and predation risk, thereby shaping foraging behaviour. As a consequence …

Damming of streams due to the construction of a highway in the Amazon rainforest favors individual trophic specialization in the fish (Bryconops giacopinii)

GG Barros, M Silva Araújo… - Journal of Fish …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
In Amazonian streams, damming caused by road construction changes the system's
hydrological dynamics and biological communities. We tested whether the degree of …

Adaptive foraging in the Anthropocene: can individual diet specialization compensate for biotic homogenization?

PJ Manlick, SD Newsome - Frontiers in Ecology and the …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Biotic homogenization is a ubiquitous consequence of human disturbance. Through a mix of
local extinctions and invasions, diverse communities of specialists are often replaced by or …

Diverse resource-use strategies in a large-bodied marine predator guild: evidence from differential use of resource subsidies and intraspecific isotopic variation

ON Shipley, AJ Gallagher, DS Shiffman… - Marine Ecology …, 2019 - int-res.com
Observations of resource-use dynamics are sparse for higher trophic level species in marine
systems, but important given their role in driving the distribution and functional roles of …

Metabarcoding reveals selective dietary responses to environmental availability in the diet of a nocturnal, aerial insectivore, the European nightjar (Caprimulgus …

LJ Mitchell, GJ Horsburgh, DA Dawson, KH Maher… - Ibis, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Many bird species are vulnerable to environmental change, so knowledge of their diet and
its variation can help understand population status and flexibility to respond to change …