Flexible foraging strategies in a diving seabird with high flight cost

Marine Biology

Volumn 161, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 2121-2129

  Shoji, Akiko ^a   Owen, Ellie ^b   Bolton, Mark ^b   Dean, Ben ^a   Kirk, Holly ^a   Fayet, Annette ^a   Boyle, Dave ^a   Freeman, Robin ^a,c   Perrins, Chris ^a   Aris Brosou, Stéphane ^d   Guilford, Tim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b RSPB CENTRE FOR CONSERVATION SCIENCE   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL PLACE FORAGING; DIVING BEHAVIOR; ENVIRONMENTAL CUE; FLIGHT; PREY AVAILABILITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEABIRD; TRADE-OFF;

ALCA;

EID: 84907595192     PISSN: 00253162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00227-014-2492-9     Document Type: Article

References (64)

1. Alonso JA, Alonso JC, Carrascal LM, Munozpulido R (1994) Flock size and foraging decisions in central place foraging White Storks Ciconia Ciconia. Behaviour 129: 279-292.
2. Ashmole NP (1963) The regulation of numbers of tropical oceanic birds. Ibis 103b: 458-473.
3. Baird PH (1991) Optimal foraging and intraspecific competition in the tufted puffin. Condor 93: 503-515.
4. Birt VL, Birt TP, Goulet D, Cairns DK, Montevecchi WA (1987) Ashmole's halo: Direct evidence for prey depletion by a seabird. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 40: 205-208.
5. Burger AE, Powell DW (1990) Diving depths and diet of Cassin's Auklet at Reef Island, British Columbia. Can J Zool 68: 1572-1577.
6. Chapdelaine G, Brousseau P (1996) Diet of Razorbill Alca torda chicks and breeding success in St. Mary's Island, Gulf of St. Lawrence, Quebec, Canada, 1990-1992. In: Montevecchi WA (ed) Studies of high-latitude seabirds 4 Trophic relationships and energetics of endotherms in cold ocean systems. Environment Canada. Canadian Wildlife Service, Canada, pp 27-36.
7. Crawley MJ (2007) The R book. Wiley, Chichester.
8. Cuthill I, Kacelnik A (1990) Central place foraging: a re-appraisal of the "loading effect". Anim Behav 40: 1087-1101.
9. Dean B (2012) The at-sea behaviour of the Manx Shearwater. Zoology. University of Oxford, Oxford.
10. Decker MB, Hunt GL (1996) Foraging by murres (Uria spp) at tidal fronts surrounding the Pribilof islands, Alaska, USA. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 139: 1-10.
11. Development Core Team R (2011) R: a language and environment for statistical computing. R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna.
12. Duffy DC (1983) The foraging ecology of Peruvian seabirds. Auk 100: 800-810.
13. Elliott KH, Davoren GK, Gaston AJ (2008a) Increasing energy expenditure for a deep-diving bird alters time allocation during the dive cycle. Anim Behav 75: 1311-1317.
14. Elliott KH, Davoren GK, Gaston AJ (2008b) Time allocation by a deep-diving bird reflects prey type and energy gain. Anim Behav 75: 1301-1310.
15. Elliott KH, Woo KJ, Gaston AJ, Benvenuti S, Dall'Antonia L, Davoren GK (2009) Central-place foraging in an Arctic seabird provides evidence for storer-Ashmole's halo. Auk 126: 613-625.
16. Elliott KH, Gaston AJ, Crump D (2010) Sex-specific behavior by a monomorphic seabird represents risk partitioning. Behav Ecol 21(5): 1024-1032.
17. Elliott KH, Ricklefs RE, Gaston AJ, Hatch SA, Speakman JR, Davoren GK (2013) High flight costs, but low dive costs, in auks support the biomechanical hypothesis for flightlessness in penguins. Proc Natl Acad Sci 110: 9380-9384.
18. Frey-roos F, Brodmann PA, Reyer HU (1995) Relationships between food resources, foraging patterns, and reproductive success in the water pipit, Anthus sp. spinoletta. Behav Ecol 6: 287-295.
19. Gaston AJ (1985) Energy invested in reproduction by thick-billed murres (Uria lomvia). Auk 102: 447-458.
20. Gaston AJ (2004) Seabirds: a natural history. Yale University Press, New Haven.
21. Gaston AJ, Ydenberg RC, Smith GEJ (2007) Ashmole's halo and population regulation in seabirds. Mar Ornithol 35: 119-126.
22. Gaston AJ, Elliott KH, Ropert-Coudert Y, Kato A, MacDonald C, Mallory ML (2013) Modeling foraging range for breeding colonies of thick-billed murres Uria lomvia in the eastern Canadian Arctic and potential overlap with industrial development. Biol Conserv 168: 134-143.
23. Grémillet D (1997) Catch per unit effort, foraging efficiency, and parental investment in breeding great cormorants (Phalacrocorax carbo carbo). ICES J Mar Sci 54: 635-644.
24. Guilford TC, Meade J, Freeman R, Biro D, Evans T, Bonadonna F, Boyle D, Roberts S, Perrins CM (2008) GPS tracking of the foraging movements of Manx Shearwaters Puffinus puffinus breeding on Skomer Island, Wales. Ibis 150: 462-473.
25. Haney JC, Schauer AES (1994) Environmental variability facilitates coexistence within an alcid community at sea. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 103: 221-237.
26. Hansen ES, Ricklefs RE (2004) Foraging by deep-diving birds is not constrained by an aerobic diving limit: a model of avian depth-dependent diving metabolic rate. Am Nat 163: 358-374.
27. Harris MP, Wanless S (1986) The food of young Razorbills on the Isle of May and a comparison with that of young Guillemots and Puffins. Ornis Scand 17: 41-46.
28. Hipfner JM, Chapdelaine G (2002) Razorbill (Alca torca). The Birds of North America Inc, Philadelphia.
29. Hofmann EE, Murphy EJ (2004) Advection, krill, and Antarctic marine ecosystems. Antarct Sci 16: 487-499.
30. Houston AI, McNamara JM (1985) A general theory of central place foraging for single-prey loaders. Theor Popul Biol 28: 233-262.
31. Hunt GLJ, Schneider DC (1987) Scale-dependent processes in the physical and biological environment of marine birds. In: CJ P (ed) Seabirds: feeding biology and role in marine ecosystems. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp 7-42.
32. Hunt GL, Heinemann D, Everson I (1992) Distributions and predator-prey interactions of macaroni penguins, Antarctic fur seals, and. Antarctic krill near Bird Island, South Georgia. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 86: 15-30.
33. Irons DB (1998) Foraging area fidelity of individual seabirds in relation to tidal cycles and flock feeding. Ecology 79: 647-655.
34. Jenkins SH (1980) A size-distance relation in food selection by beavers. Ecology 61: 740-746.
35. Jodice PGR, Collopy MW (1999) Diving and foraging patterns of Marbled Murrelets (Brachyramphus marmoratus): testing predictions from optimal-breathing models. Can J Zool Revue Canadienne De Zoologie 77: 1409-1418.
36. Kooyman GL, Ponganis PJ (1998) The physiological basis of diving to depth: birds and mammals. Annu Rev Physiol 60: 19-32.
37. Lovvorn JR, Watanuki Y, Kato A, Naito Y, Liggins GA (2004) Stroke patterns and regulation of swim speed and energy cost in free-ranging Brunnich's guillemots. J Exp Biol 207: 4679-4695.
38. Luque SP (2007) Diving behaviour analysis in R. R News 7: 8-14.
39. Luque SP, Fried R (2011) Recursive filtering for zero offset correction of diving depth time series with GNU R package diveMove. PLoS One 6: e15850.
40. Menge BA, Daley BA, Wheeler PA, Dahlhoff E, Sanford E, Strub PT (1997) Benthic-pelagic links and rocky intertidal communities: bottom-up effects on top-down control? Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 94: 14530-14535.
41. Mori Y, Yoda K, Sato K (2001) Defining dive bouts using a sequential differences analysis. Behaviour 138: 1451-1466.
42. Mori Y, Takahashi A, Mehlum F, Watanuki Y (2002) An application of optimal diving models to diving behaviour of Brunnich's guillemots. Anim Behav 64: 739-745.
43. Mori Y, Watanabe Y, Mitani Y, Sato K, Cameron MF, Naito Y (2005) A comparison of prey richness estimates for Weddell seals using diving profiles and image data. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 295: 257-263.
44. Navarro J, Votier SC, Aguzzi J, Chiesa JJ, Forero MG, Phillips RA (2013) Ecological segregation in space, time and trophic niche of sympatric planktivorous petrels. PLoS One 8(4): e62897.
45. Pajaro M, Macchi GJ, Martos P (2005) Reproductive pattern of the Patagonian stock of Argentine hake (Merluccius hubbsi). Fish Res 72: 97-108.
46. Pennycuick CJ (1987) Flight of seabirds. In: Croxall JP (ed) Seabirds: feeding ecology and role in marine ecosystems. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp 43-62.
47. Regular PM, Davoren GK, Hedd A, Montevecchi WA (2010) Crepuscular foraging by a pursuit-diving seabird: Tactics of common murres in response to the diel vertical migration of capelin. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 415: 295-304.
48. Regular PM, Hedd A, Montevecchi WA (2011) Fishing in the dark: a pursuit-diving seabird modifies foraging behaviour in response to nocturnal light levels. PLoS One 6: e26763.
49. Ricklefs RE (1990) Seabirds life histories and the marine environment: some speculations. Colon Waterbirds 13: 1-6.
50. Ropert-Coudert Y, Wilson RP, Daunt F, Kato A (2004) Patterns of energy acquisition by a central place forager: benefits of alternating short and long foraging trips. Behav Ecol 15: 824-830.
51. Sala JE, Wilson RP, Frere E, Quintana F (2012) Foraging effort in Magellanic penguins in coastal Patagonia, Argentina. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 464: 273-287.
52. Saunders T, Ydenberg R (1995) Consumption and caching of food in the northwestern crow (Corvus caurinus). Auk 112: 778-779.
53. Schneider DC (1990) Seabirds and fronts: a brief overview. Polar Res 8(1): 17-21.
54. Schneider DC, Piatt JF (1986) Scale-dependent correlation of seabirds with schooling fish in a coastal ecosystem. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 32: 237-246.
55. Schoener TW (1971) Theory of feeding strategies. Annu Rev Ecol Evol Syst 2: 369-404.
56. Thaxter CB, Wanless S, Daunt F, Harris MP, Benvenuti S, Watanuki Y, Gremillet D, Hamer KC (2010) Influence of wing loading on the trade-off between pursuit-diving and flight in common guillemots and razorbills. J Exp Biol 213: 1018-1025.
57. Waite TA, Ydenberg RC (1996) Foraging currencies and the load-size decision of scatter-hoarding grey jays. Anim Behav 51: 903-916.
58. Wanless S, Finney SK, Harris MP, McCafferty DJ (1999) Effect of the diel light cycle on the diving behaviour of two bottom feeding marine birds: the blue-eyed shag Phalacrocorax atriceps and the European shag P-aristotelis. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 188: 219-224.
59. Weimerskirch H (2002) The demography of seabirds and its relationship with the marine environment. In: Schreiber EA, Burger J (eds) Biology of marine birds. CRC Press, Boca Raton, pp 115-135.
60. Weimerskirch H, Bonadonna F, Bailleul F, Mabille G, Dell'Omo G, Lipp HP (2002) GPS tracking of foraging albatrosses. Science 295: 1259.
61. Weimerskirch H, Bertrand S, Silva J, Carlos Marques J, Goya E (2010) Use of social information in seabirds: compass rafts indicate the heading of food patches. PLoS One 5: e9928.
62. Wilson RP (2003) Penguins predict their performance. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 249: 305-310.
63. Wright PJ, Bailey MC (1991) Biology of sandeels in the vicinity of seabird colonies at Shetland.
64. Ydenberg RC, Welham CVJ, Schmidhempel R, Schmidhempel P, Beauchamp G (1994) Time and energy constraints and the relationships between currencies in foraging theory. Behav Ecol 5: 28-34.