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