Individual environmental niches in mobile organisms

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.

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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
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spelling doaj-b3f8bfb7f6344012a7359f17261026402021-08-01T11:39:10ZengNature Publishing GroupNature Communications2041-17232021-07-0112111010.1038/s41467-021-24826-xIndividual environmental niches in mobile organismsBen S. Carlson0Shay Rotics1Ran Nathan2Martin Wikelski3Walter Jetz4Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale UniversityDepartment of Zoology, University of CambridgeMovement Ecology Laboratory, Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of JerusalemDepartment of Migration, Max Planck Institute of Animal BehaviorDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale UniversityUnderstanding 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.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24826-x
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