Individual environmental niches in mobile organisms

Ben S. Carlson; Shay Rotics; Ran Nathan; Martin Wikelski; Walter Jetz

doi:10.1038/s41467-021-24826-x

Nature Communications (Jul 2021)

Individual environmental niches in mobile organisms

Ben S. Carlson,
Shay Rotics,
Ran Nathan,
Martin Wikelski,
Walter Jetz

Affiliations

Ben S. Carlson: Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University
Shay Rotics: Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge
Ran Nathan: Movement Ecology Laboratory, Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Martin Wikelski: Department of Migration, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
Walter Jetz: Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24826-x
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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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.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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