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Effects of age and reproductive status on individual foraging site fidelity in a long-lived marine predator
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dc.contributor.author | Votier, Stephen C. | |
dc.contributor.author | Fayet, Annette L. | |
dc.contributor.author | Bearhop, Stuart | |
dc.contributor.author | Bodey, Thomas W. | |
dc.contributor.author | Clark, Bethany L. | |
dc.contributor.author | Grecian, James | |
dc.contributor.author | Guilford, Tim | |
dc.contributor.author | Hamer, Keith C. | |
dc.contributor.author | Jeglinski, Jana W. E. | |
dc.contributor.author | Morgan, Greg | |
dc.contributor.author | Wakefield, Ewan | |
dc.contributor.author | Patrick, Samantha C. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-08-09T09:30:11Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-08-09T09:30:11Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2017-07-26 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Votier , 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.2017.1068 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 0962-8452 | |
dc.identifier.other | PURE: 250687310 | |
dc.identifier.other | PURE UUID: dd595082-c20a-44f0-9aa6-57e49208ac7d | |
dc.identifier.other | Scopus: 85026472266 | |
dc.identifier.other | ORCID: /0000-0002-6428-719X/work/35946864 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10023/11413 | |
dc.description | This 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.abstract | Individual 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. | |
dc.format.extent | 7 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | en |
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.subject | Ecology of individuals | en |
dc.subject | Exploration-refinement foraging hypothesis | en |
dc.subject | Foraging | en |
dc.subject | Foraging specialization | en |
dc.subject | GPS tracking | en |
dc.subject | Seabird | en |
dc.subject | QH301 Biology | en |
dc.subject | GE Environmental Sciences | en |
dc.subject | Medicine(all) | en |
dc.subject | Immunology and Microbiology(all) | en |
dc.subject | Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology(all) | en |
dc.subject | Environmental Science(all) | en |
dc.subject | Agricultural and Biological Sciences(all) | en |
dc.subject | DAS | en |
dc.subject | SDG 14 - Life Below Water | en |
dc.subject.lcc | QH301 | en |
dc.subject.lcc | GE | en |
dc.title | Effects of age and reproductive status on individual foraging site fidelity in a long-lived marine predator | en |
dc.type | Journal article | en |
dc.description.version | Publisher PDF | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. School of Biology | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. Sea Mammal Research Unit | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. Scottish Oceans Institute | en |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2017.1068 | |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
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