Causes and consequences of individual variability and specialization in foraging and migration strategies of seabirds

RA Phillips, S Lewis, J González-Solís… - Marine Ecology Progress …, 2017‏ - int-res.com
Technological advances in recent years have seen an explosion of tracking and stable
isotope studies of seabirds, often involving repeated measures from the same individuals …

Large‐scale movement patterns in a social vulture are influenced by seasonality, sex, and breeding region

J Morant, E Arrondo, JA Sánchez‐Zapata… - Ecology and …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Quantifying space use and segregation, as well as the extrinsic and intrinsic factors affecting
them, is crucial to increase our knowledge of species‐specific movement ecology and to …

The role of seabirds of the Iles Eparses as reservoirs and disseminators of parasites and pathogens

KD McCoy, M Dietrich, A Jaeger, DA Wilkinson… - Acta Oecologica, 2016‏ - Elsevier
The role of birds as reservoirs and disseminators of parasites and pathogens has received
much attention over the past several years due to their high vagility. Seabirds are particularly …

Sexual segregation in a wide-ranging marine predator is a consequence of habitat selection

IR Cleasby, ED Wakefield, TW Bodey… - Marine Ecology …, 2015‏ - int-res.com
Sexual segregation, common in many species, is usually attributed to intra-specific
competition or habitat choice. However, few studies have simultaneously quantified sex …

Sex-specific foraging behaviour is affected by wind conditions in a sexually size dimorphic seabird

F De Pascalis, S Imperio, A Benvenuti, C Catoni… - Animal Behaviour, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Flexibility in foraging behaviour is a key individual trait, promoting adaptive responses to
changing environmental conditions. Such flexibility can be especially pronounced in marine …

High‐resolution multi‐marker DNA metabarcoding reveals sexual dietary differentiation in a bird with minor dimorphism

LP da Silva, VA Mata, PB Lopes… - Ecology and …, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
Although sexual dietary differentiation is well known in birds, it is usually linked with
significant morphological dimorphism between males and females, with lower differentiation …

Ecological Sexual Dimorphism and Environmental Variability within a Community of Antarctic Penguins (Genus Pygoscelis)

KB Gorman, TD Williams, WR Fraser - PloS one, 2014‏ - journals.plos.org
Background Sexual segregation in vertebrate foraging niche is often associated with sexual
size dimorphism (SSD), ie, ecological sexual dimorphism. Although foraging behavior of …

[HTML][HTML] Barau's petrel, Pterodroma baraui, as a bioindicator of plastic pollution in the South-West Indian Ocean: A multifaceted approach

M Thibault, L Weiss, R Fernandez, N Avargues… - Marine Environmental …, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Marine plastic pollution is well described by bioindicator species in temperate and polar
regions but remains understudied in tropical oceans. We addressed this gap by evaluating …

Seasonal Sexual Segregation by Monomorphic Sooty Shearwaters Puffinus griseus Reflects Different Reproductive Roles during the Pre-Laying Period

A Hedd, WA Montevecchi, RA Phillips, DA Fifield - PLoS One, 2014‏ - journals.plos.org
Tracking technology has revolutionized knowledge of seabird movements; yet, few studies
have examined sex differences in distribution and behavior of small to medium-sized …

Environmentally driven sexual segregation in a marine top predator

VH Paiva, J Pereira, FR Ceia, JA Ramos - Scientific Reports, 2017‏ - nature.com
Sexual segregation in foraging occurs in many animal species, resulting in the partitioning of
resources and reduction of competition between males and females, yet the patterns and …