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1 #AnimBehav2021 #ForagingSession
Habitat loss is an increasing problem for many species. Some animals seem flexible by relocating to new areas but this might come at a cost. Especially when they’re specialist foragers
#TeamGull #GPStracking
Habitat loss is an increasing problem for many species. Some animals seem flexible by relocating to new areas but this might come at a cost. Especially when they’re specialist foragers
#TeamGull #GPStracking
2 #AnimBehav2021
At the start of my #PhD, major habitat loss caused a huge decline in our long-term #gull study population in Belgium
Trying to make the best out of the situation I aimed to investigate the gulls’ response and the consequences of #habitatloss
At the start of my #PhD, major habitat loss caused a huge decline in our long-term #gull study population in Belgium
Trying to make the best out of the situation I aimed to investigate the gulls’ response and the consequences of #habitatloss
3 #AnimBehav2021
Many Belgian gulls turned up in a nearby colony in the Netherlands
Here we investigated whether relocated individuals adjusted their foraging behaviour to their new food landscape, and whether there were any reproductive consequences
Many Belgian gulls turned up in a nearby colony in the Netherlands
Here we investigated whether relocated individuals adjusted their foraging behaviour to their new food landscape, and whether there were any reproductive consequences
4 #AnimBehav2021
#GPStracking showed that relocated #gulls often visited familiar but distant foraging areas that were also used by the gulls that remained in their native colony, while residents stayed nearby. This means flying 80 km further per trip!
#GPStracking showed that relocated #gulls often visited familiar but distant foraging areas that were also used by the gulls that remained in their native colony, while residents stayed nearby. This means flying 80 km further per trip!
5 #AnimBehav2021
The increased foraging efforts likely explain the negative consequences that we found when comparing offspring development between relocated and resident parents
The increased foraging efforts likely explain the negative consequences that we found when comparing offspring development between relocated
and resident parents
6 #AnimBehav2021
These findings suggest that the #gulls did not (yet) optimally adjust to their new food landscape and were less flexible than expected of a species with such a wide ecological niche
Read the paper published in #MovementEcology here: https://doi.org/10.1186/s40462-020-00231-9
These findings suggest that the #gulls did not (yet) optimally adjust to their new food landscape and were less flexible than expected of a species with such a wide ecological niche
Read the paper published in #MovementEcology here: https://doi.org/10.1186/s40462-020-00231-9
