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Climate mediates the success of migration strategies in a marine predator

2018
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Ecology Letters

Abrahms, B., E. L. Hazen, S. J. Bograd, J. S. Brashares, P. W. Robinson, K. L. Scales, D. E. Crocker, and D. P. Costa

Individual behavioural specialisation has far-reaching effects on fitness and population persistence. Theory predicts that unconditional site fidelity, that is fidelity to a site independent of past...
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Keywords: Behavioural strategy, Climate variability, Foraging ecology, Habitat selection, Individual specialisation, Migration, Mirounga angustirostris, Northern elephant seal, Resource predictability, Site fidelity

Suite of simple metrics reveals common movement syndromes across vertebrate taxa

2017
Open Access Peer Reviewed Publication

Movement Ecology

Abrahms, B., D. P. Seidel, E. Dougherty, E. L. Hazen, S. J. Bograd, A. M. Wilson, J. Weldon McNutt, D. P. Costa, S. Blake, J. S. Brashares, and W. M. Getz

Background: Because empirical studies of animal movement are most-often site- and species-specific, we lack understanding of the level of consistency in movement patterns across diverse taxa,...
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Keywords: Central place foraging, Classification scheme, Cluster analysis, GPS data, Migration, Movement ecology, Nomadism, Territoriality