Northern gannets, Les Etacs, Alderney

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dc.contributor.authorWarwick-Evans, Victoria
dc.contributor.authorSoanes, Louise M.
dc.contributor.authorGauvain, Roland D.
dc.contributor.authorAtkinson, Phil W.
dc.contributor.authorArnould, John P.Y.
dc.contributor.authorGreen, Jon A.
dc.date.accessioned2017-08-01T16:50:29Z
dc.date.available2017-08-01T16:50:29Z
dc.date.issued2017-08-01
dc.description.abstractThe at-sea distribution of seabirds primarily depends on the distance from their breeding colony, and the abundance, distribution and predictability of their prey, which are subject to strong spatial and temporal variation. Many seabirds have developed flexible foraging strategies to deal with this variation, such as increasing their foraging effort or switching to more predictable, less energy dense, prey, in poor conditions. These responses may vary both within and between individuals, and understanding this variability is vital to predict the population-level impacts of spatially explicit environmental disturbances, such as offshore windfarms. We conducted a multi-year tracking study in order to investigate the inter-annual variation in the foraging behaviour and location of a population of northern gannets breeding on Alderney in the English Channel. To do so, we investigated the link between individual-level behaviour and population-level behaviour. We found that a sample of gannets tracked in 2015 had longer trip durations, travelled further from the colony and had larger core foraging areas and home range areas than gannets tracked in previous years. This inter-annual variation may be associated with oceanographic conditions indexed by the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO). Our findings suggest that this inter-annual variation was driven by individuals visiting larger areas in all of their trips rather than individuals diversifying to visit more, distinct areas. These findings suggest that, for gannets at least, if prey becomes less abundant or more widely distributed, more individuals may be required to forage further from the colony, thus increasing their likelihood of encountering pressures from spatially explicit anthropogenic disturbances.
dc.identifier.doidoi:10.5441/001/1.30r98tb3/1
dc.identifier.urihttps://datarepository.movebank.org/handle/10255/move.698
dc.relation.ispartofdoi:10.5441/001/1.30r98tb3
dc.relation.isreferencedbydoi:10.1007/s00227-016-2922-y
dc.relation.isreferencedbydoi:10.1111/1365-2664.12996
dc.relation.isreferencedbydoi:10.1016/j.marpol.2012.08.006
dc.rightsCC0 1.0 Universalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
dc.subjectanimal foraging
dc.subjectanimal movement
dc.subjectanimal tracking
dc.subjectavian migration
dc.subjectcollision risk
dc.subjectEnglish Channel
dc.subjectenvironmental impact assessment
dc.subjectevidence-based decision making
dc.subjectGPS logger
dc.subjecthome range
dc.subjectMorus bassanus
dc.subjectnorthern gannet
dc.subjectoffshore development
dc.subjectpredictive modelling
dc.subjectwindfarms
dc.titleNorthern gannets, Les Etacs, Alderney
dc.typeDataset
dspace.entity.typeData package
dwc.ScientificNameMorus bassanus
mdr.citation.BibTex
@misc{001/1_30r98tb3/1,
  title = {Northern gannets, Les Etacs, Alderney},
  author = {Warwick-Evans, V and Soanes, LM and Gauvain, RD and Atkinson, PW and Arnould, JPY and Green, JA},
  year = {2017},
  URL = {http://dx.doi.org/10.5441/001/1.30r98tb3/1},
  doi = {doi:10.5441/001/1.30r98tb3/1},
  publisher = {Movebank data repository}
}
mdr.citation.CSE
Warwick-Evans V, Soanes LM, Gauvain RD, Atkinson PW, Arnould JPY, Green JA. 2017. Northern gannets, Les Etacs, Alderney. Movebank Data Repository. https://doi.org/10.5441/001/1.30r98tb3/1
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