In recent years, marine predator and seabird tracking studies have become ever more
popular. However, they are often conducted without first considering how many individuals …

Dit proefschrift is het resultaat van een vergelijkend onderzoek naar de populatiedynamica
van Zilvermeeuwen en Kleine Mantelmeeuwen in de westelijke Waddenzee, opgezet zodat …

Recent international initiatives have promoted a number of different approaches to identify
marine Important Bird and biodiversity Areas (IBAs), which are important areas for foraging …

Cooperative hunting involves individual predators relating in time and space to each other's
actions to more efficiently track down and catch prey. The evolution of advanced cognitive …

Metrics of foraging by herbivorous reef fishes have been shown to vary across space and
time, and among species. However, little work has explicitly assessed how fish use space …

We used the Ecopath with Ecosim software to develop a trophic mass-balance model of the
eastern Great Australian Bight ecosystem, off southern Australia. Results provide an …

Abstract The Brown Skua Stercorarius antarcticus lonnbergi is an opportunistic species that
displays a high degree of flexibility in foraging tactics. We deployed global positioning …

Seabird tracking has become an ever more popular tool to aid environmental procedures
such as the designation of marine protected areas and environmental impact assessments …

Top predators exhibit a critical role in ecosystem functioning and in the stability of the food
web, so research on diet is relevant to understand their foraging behavior. Seasonal …

Aim Conservation of highly mobile species often requires identifying locations or time
periods of elevated vulnerability. Since both extrinsic habitat conditions and intrinsic …