Publication Date:
2013-06-08
Description:
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.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Wakefield, Ewan D -- Bodey, Thomas W -- Bearhop, Stuart -- Blackburn, Jez -- Colhoun, Kendrew -- Davies, Rachel -- Dwyer, Ross G -- Green, Jonathan A -- Gremillet, David -- Jackson, Andrew L -- Jessopp, Mark J -- Kane, Adam -- Langston, Rowena H W -- Lescroel, Amelie -- Murray, Stuart -- Le Nuz, Melanie -- Patrick, Samantha C -- Peron, Clara -- Soanes, Louise M -- Wanless, Sarah -- Votier, Stephen C -- Hamer, Keith C -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2013 Jul 5;341(6141):68-70. doi: 10.1126/science.1236077. Epub 2013 Jun 6.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉School of Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK. e.d.wakefield@leeds.ac.uk〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23744776" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Birds/*physiology
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Breeding
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*Feeding Behavior
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*Homing Behavior
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Models, Biological
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*Territoriality
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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