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OIKOS
卷 123, 期 1, 页码 33-40出版社
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2013.00406.x
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- EU Interreg CHARM III project, NERC [NE/H007199/1, NE/G001014/1, NE/H007466/1]
- Peninsula Research Institute for Marine Renewable Energy
- Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive at CNRS Montpellier
- EU Interreg FAME project (co-funded by ERDF, Agence des aires marines protegees and LPO)
- Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship
- NERC [NE/H007199/1, NE/H007466/1, NE/G001014/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Natural Environment Research Council [NE/H007199/1, NE/G001014/1, NE/H007466/1] Funding Source: researchfish
Consistent intra-population variability in foraging behaviour is found among a wide range of taxa. Such foraging specialisations are common among marine vertebrates, yet it is not clear how individuals repeatedly locate prey or foraging sites at ocean-wide scales. Using GPS and time-depth loggers we studied the fine-scale foraging behaviour of central-place northern gannets Morus bassanus at two large colonies. First, we estimated the degree of consistency in individual foraging routes and sites across repeated trips. Second, we tested for individual differences in searching behaviour in response to environmental covariates using reaction norms, estimated from mixed effect models. Adult gannets tracked over multiple foraging trips showed repeatable between-individual differences in terminal points and departure angles of foraging trips, but low repeatability in trip duration and trip length. Importantly, individual birds showed highly repeatable dive locations, with consistently different environmental conditions (such as copepod abundance), suggesting a high degree of foraging site specialisation. Gannets also showed between-individual differences in searching behaviour along environmental gradients, such that individuals intensified searching under different conditions. Together these results suggest that widespread individual foraging consistency may represent specialisation and be linked with individual responses to environmental conditions. Such divergent searching behaviour could provide a mechanism by which consistent foraging behaviour arises and is maintained among animals that forage across large spatial scales.
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