Brown pelicans in the Gulf of Mexico (data from Geary et al. 2018)

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dc.contributor.authorGeary, Brock
dc.contributor.authorWalter, Scott T.
dc.contributor.authorLeberg, Paul L.
dc.contributor.authorKarubian, Jordan
dc.date.accessioned2018-12-31T11:52:31Z
dc.date.available2018-12-31T11:52:31Z
dc.date.issued2018-12-31
dc.description.abstractThe degree to which foraging individuals are able to appropriately modify their behaviors in response to dynamic environmental conditions and associated resource availability can have important fitness consequences. Despite an increasingly refined understanding of differences in foraging behavior between individuals, we still lack detailed characterizations of within-individual variation over space and time, and what factors may drive this variability. From 2014 to 2017, we used GPS transmitters and accelerometers to document foraging movements by breeding adult Brown Pelicans (Pelecanus occidentalis) in the northern Gulf of Mexico, where the prey landscape is patchy and dynamic at various scales. Assessments of traditional foraging metrics such as trip distance, linearity, or duration did not yield significant relationships between individuals. However, we did observe lower site fidelity and less variation in energy expenditure in birds of higher body condition, despite a population-level trend of increased fidelity as the breeding season progressed. These findings suggest that high-quality individuals are both more variable and more efficient in their foraging behaviors during a period of high energetic demand, consistent with a “rich get richer” scenario in which individuals in better condition are able to invest in more costly behaviors that provide higher returns. This work highlights the importance of considering behavioral variation at multiple scales, with particular reference to within-individual variation, to improve our understanding of foraging ecology in wild populations.
dc.identifier.doidoi:10.5441/001/1.212g53s7/1
dc.identifier.urihttps://datarepository.movebank.org/handle/10255/move.809
dc.relation.isformatofdoi:10.5061/dryad.5tb3312
dc.relation.ispartofdoi:10.5441/001/1.212g53s7
dc.relation.isreferencedbydoi:10.1093/beheco/ary173
dc.rightsCC0 1.0 Universalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
dc.subjectanimal foraging
dc.subjectanimal movement
dc.subjectanimal tracking
dc.subjectbehavioral flexibility
dc.subjectbrown pelican
dc.subjectcentral place foraging
dc.subjectforaging ecology
dc.subjectGulf of Mexico
dc.subjectindividual variation
dc.subjectPelecanus occidentalis
dc.subjectseabird
dc.titleBrown pelicans in the Gulf of Mexico (data from Geary et al. 2018)
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dspace.entity.typeData package
dwc.ScientificNamePelecanus occidentalis
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@misc{001/1_212g53s7/1,
  title = {Brown pelicans in the Gulf of Mexico (data from Geary et al. 2018)},
  author = {Geary, B and Walter, ST and Leberg, PL and Karubian, J},
  year = {2018},
  URL = {http://dx.doi.org/10.5441/001/1.212g53s7/1},
  doi = {doi:10.5441/001/1.212g53s7/1},
  publisher = {Movebank data repository}
}
mdr.citation.CSE
Geary B, Walter ST, Leberg PL, Karubian J. 2018. Brown pelicans in the Gulf of Mexico (data from Geary et al. 2018). Movebank Data Repository. https://doi.org/10.5441/001/1.212g53s7/1
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