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dc.contributor.authorVotier, Stephen C.
dc.contributor.authorFayet, Annette L.
dc.contributor.authorBearhop, Stuart
dc.contributor.authorBodey, Thomas W.
dc.contributor.authorClark, Bethany L.
dc.contributor.authorGrecian, James
dc.contributor.authorGuilford, Tim
dc.contributor.authorHamer, Keith C.
dc.contributor.authorJeglinski, Jana W. E.
dc.contributor.authorMorgan, Greg
dc.contributor.authorWakefield, Ewan
dc.contributor.authorPatrick, Samantha C.
dc.date.accessioned2017-08-09T09:30:11Z
dc.date.available2017-08-09T09:30:11Z
dc.date.issued2017-07-26
dc.identifier.citationVotier , S C , Fayet , A L , Bearhop , S , Bodey , T W , Clark , B L , Grecian , J , Guilford , T , Hamer , K C , Jeglinski , J W E , Morgan , G , Wakefield , E & Patrick , S C 2017 , ' Effects of age and reproductive status on individual foraging site fidelity in a long-lived marine predator ' , Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences , vol. 284 , no. 1859 , 20171068 . https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2017.1068en
dc.identifier.issn0962-8452
dc.identifier.otherPURE: 250687310
dc.identifier.otherPURE UUID: dd595082-c20a-44f0-9aa6-57e49208ac7d
dc.identifier.otherScopus: 85026472266
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0002-6428-719X/work/35946864
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/11413
dc.descriptionThis work was funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (Standard grant no. NE/H007466/1; New Investigators grant no. NE/H007466/1) and a German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Postdoctoral Fellowship and a Leadership Fellowship by the University of Glasgow to J.W.E.J. Data are available via Dryad (http://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.8m1nf)en
dc.description.abstractIndividual foraging specializations, where individuals use a small component of the population niche width, are widespread in nature with important ecological and evolutionary implications. In long-lived animals, foraging ability develops with age, but we know little about the ontogeny of individuality in foraging. Here we use precision global positioning system (GPS) loggers to examine how individual foraging site fidelity (IFSF), a common component of foraging specialization, varies between breeders, failed breeders and immatures in a long-lived marine predator— the northern gannet Morus bassanus. Breeders (aged 5+) showed strong IFSF: they had similar routes and were faithful to distal points during successive trips. However, centrally placed immatures (aged 2–3) were far more exploratory and lacked route or foraging site fidelity. Failed breeders were intermediate: some with strong fidelity, others being more exploratory. Individual foraging specializations were previously thought to arise as a function of heritable phenotypic differences or via social transmission. Our results instead suggest a third alternative—in long-lived species foraging sites are learned during exploratory behaviours early in life, which become canalized with age and experience, and refined where possible— the exploration-refinement foraging hypothesis. We speculate similar patterns may be present in other long-lived species and moreover that long periods of immaturity may be a consequence of such memory-based individual foraging strategies.
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dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofProceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciencesen
dc.rights© 2017 The Authors. Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited.en
dc.subjectEcology of individualsen
dc.subjectExploration-refinement foraging hypothesisen
dc.subjectForagingen
dc.subjectForaging specializationen
dc.subjectGPS trackingen
dc.subjectSeabirden
dc.subjectQH301 Biologyen
dc.subjectGE Environmental Sciencesen
dc.subjectMedicine(all)en
dc.subjectImmunology and Microbiology(all)en
dc.subjectBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology(all)en
dc.subjectEnvironmental Science(all)en
dc.subjectAgricultural and Biological Sciences(all)en
dc.subjectDASen
dc.subjectSDG 14 - Life Below Wateren
dc.subject.lccQH301en
dc.subject.lccGEen
dc.titleEffects of age and reproductive status on individual foraging site fidelity in a long-lived marine predatoren
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.description.versionPublisher PDFen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Biologyen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Sea Mammal Research Uniten
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Scottish Oceans Instituteen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2017.1068
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden


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