Predators and the breeding bird: behavioral and reproductive flexibility under the risk of predation

SL Lima - Biological reviews, 2009‏ - Wiley Online Library
ABSTRACT A growing body of work suggests that breeding birds have a significant capacity
to assess and respond, over ecological time, to changes in the risk of predation to both …

Spatial ecology and conservation of seabirds facing global climate change: a review

D Grémillet, T Boulinier - Marine Ecology Progress Series, 2009‏ - int-res.com
In this review we detail the impact of climate change on marine productivity, on marine
environmental stochasticity and cyclicity, and on the spatio-temporal match–mismatch of …

The ecology of information: an overview on the ecological significance of making informed decisions

KA Schmidt, SRX Dall, JA Van Gils - Oikos, 2010‏ - Wiley Online Library
Information is characterized as the reduction of uncertainty and by a change in the state of a
receiving organism. Thus, organisms can acquire information about their environment that …

Reliability of flipper-banded penguins as indicators of climate change

C Saraux, C Le Bohec, JM Durant, VA Viblanc… - Nature, 2011‏ - nature.com
Abstract In 2007, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change highlighted an urgent
need to assess the responses of marine ecosystems to climate change. Because they lie in …

Information use in colonial living

JC Evans, SC Votier, SRX Dall - Biological reviews, 2016‏ - Wiley Online Library
Despite the fact that many animals live in groups, there is still no clear consensus about the
ecological or evolutionary mechanisms underlying colonial living. Recently, research has …

Use of social information in seabirds: compass rafts indicate the heading of food patches

H Weimerskirch, S Bertrand, J Silva, JC Marques… - PloS one, 2010‏ - journals.plos.org
Ward and Zahavi suggested in 1973 that colonies could serve as information centres,
through a transfer of information on the location of food resources between unrelated …

Inter-colony movements, at-sea behaviour and foraging in an immature seabird: results from GPS-PPT tracking, radio-tracking and stable isotope analysis

SC Votier, WJ Grecian, S Patrick, J Newton - Marine biology, 2011‏ - Springer
Seabird populations contain large numbers of immatures––in some instances comprising>
50% of the fully grown adults in the population. These birds are significant components of …

Hidden long-distance movements by a migratory bird

NW Cooper, PP Marra - Current Biology, 2020‏ - cell.com
Technology has revolutionized our ability to track animals across the globe, significantly
advancing our understanding of animal movement [1, 2]. Technological and logistical …

Disentangling the “many-eyes”,“dilution effect”,“selfish herd”, and “distracted prey” hypotheses in sha** alert and flight initiation distance in a colonial seabird

TL Hammer, P Bize, B Gineste, JP Robin… - Behavioural …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Group living is thought to have important antipredator benefits for animals, owing to the
mechanisms of shared vigilance (“many-eyes” hypothesis), risk dilution (“dilution effect” …

Migration, prospecting, dispersal? What host movement matters for infectious agent circulation?

T Boulinier, S Kada, A Ponchon… - Integrative and …, 2016‏ - academic.oup.com
Spatial disease ecology is emerging as a new field that requires the integration of
complementary approaches to address how the distribution and movements of hosts and …