How predictability of feeding patches affects home range and foraging habitat selection in avian social scavengers?

Feeding stations are commonly used to sustain conservation programs of scavengers but their impact on behaviour is still debated. They increase the temporal and spatial predictability of food resources while scavengers have supposedly evolved to search for unpredictable resources. In the Grands Caus...

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Main Authors: Sophie Monsarrat, Simon Benhamou, François Sarrazin, Carmen Bessa-Gomes, Willem Bouten, Olivier Duriez
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3536817?pdf=render