Adélie penguins as ecosystem indicators : foraging behaviour and habitat ...

• Main Author: Riaz, Javed
• Format: Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: University of Tasmania 2024
• Subjects: Antarctic; Southern Ocean; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.25959/25149257; https://figshare.utas.edu.au/articles/thesis/Ad_lie_penguins_as_ecosystem_indicators_foraging_behaviour_and_habitat/25149257

Understanding the foraging movements and behavioural strategies of animals is a fundamental aim in ecology. Movement ecology underpins foraging success, which can have significant implications for an animal’s fitness, survival, and reproductive performance, and ultimately drive population-level trends and characteristics. This is particularly relevant for marine predators which make foraging and movement decisions in dynamic ocean environments where prey are patchily distributed. In the Southern Ocean, understanding animal foraging ecology can play an important role in ecosystem monitoring and assessment. Information about foraging behaviour, and associated intrinsic and extrinsic drivers, can be used to guide spatially-explicit conservation and precautionary fisheries management through the Convention for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) and its Ecosystem Monitoring Program (CEMP). This thesis is concerned with the foraging behaviour and habitat use of Adélie penguins, a key ...