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Space partitioning without territoriality in gannets
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Wakefield, ED and Bodey, TW and Bearhop, S and Blackburn, J and Colhoun, K and Davies, R and Dwyer, RG and Green, JA and Gremillet, D and Jackson, AL and Jessopp, MJ and Kane, A and Langston, RHW and Lescroel, A and Murray, S and Le Nuz, M and Patrick, SC and Peron, C and Soanes, LM and Wanless, S and Votier, SC and Hamer, KC, Space partitioning without territoriality in gannets, Science, 341, (6141) pp. 68-70. ISSN 0036-8075 (2013) [Refereed Article]
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Copyright 2013 American Association for the Advancement of Science
DOI: doi:10.1126/science.1236077
Abstract
Colonial breeding is widespread among animals. Some, such as eusocial insects, may use
agonistic behavior to partition available foraging habitat into mutually exclusive territories;
others, such as breeding seabirds, do not. We found that northern gannets, satellite-tracked from
12 neighboring colonies, nonetheless forage in largely mutually exclusive areas and that these
colony-specific home ranges are determined by density-dependent competition. This segregation
may be enhanced by individual-level public information transfer, leading to cultural evolution
and divergence among colonies.
Item Details
| Item Type: | Refereed Article |
|---|---|
| Research Division: | Biological Sciences |
| Research Group: | Ecology |
| Research Field: | Behavioural ecology |
| Objective Division: | Expanding Knowledge |
| Objective Group: | Expanding knowledge |
| Objective Field: | Expanding knowledge in the biological sciences |
| UTAS Author: | Peron, C (Dr Clara Peron) |
| ID Code: | 92757 |
| Year Published: | 2013 |
| Web of Science® Times Cited: | 190 |
| Deposited By: | Sustainable Marine Research Collaboration |
| Deposited On: | 2014-06-26 |
| Last Modified: | 2014-07-30 |
| Downloads: | 0 |
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