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Assessing the influence of traits and environment on the nutritional value of small pelagic species in the California Current
DownloadFall 2024
Marine food webs are increasingly disrupted by climate change, with implications for fisheries management. Understanding how changing ocean conditions are likely to affect the nutritional quality of prey species that predators depend on could assist with predicting population responses. Here we...
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Energy Selection Functions: Modelling the Energetic Drivers of Animal Movement and Habitat Use
DownloadSpring 2021
Energetics are a key driver of animal decision-making, as survival depends on the balance between foraging benefits and movement costs. However, this fundamental perspective is often missing from habitat selection studies, which mainly describe correlations between observed space use and...
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Simulating how animals learn: a new modelling framework applied to the process of optimal foraging
Download2022-01-01
Peter R. Thompson, Melodie Kunegel-Lion, Mark A. Lewis
Animal learning has interested ecologists and psychologists for over a century. Mathematical models that explain how animals store and recall information have gained attention recently. Central to this work is statistical decision theory (SDT), which relates information uptake in animals to...