Individual environmental niches in mobile organisms

Understanding how individual niches vary can inform ecology and conservation. A study of 45 GPS-tracked white storks across three breeding populations reveals that individual environmental niches are nested, arranged along a specialist-generalist gradient that is highly consistent over time.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ben S. Carlson, Shay Rotics, Ran Nathan, Martin Wikelski, Walter Jetz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-07-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24826-x