Data from: Taking a trip to the shelf: behavioural decisions are mediated by the proximity to foraging habitats in the black-legged kittiwake ...

• Main Authors: Christensen-Dalsgaard, Signe, May, Roel, Lorentsen, Svein-Håkon
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Dryad 2018
• Subjects: Resource allocation; foraging decisions; central-place foragers; GPS tracking; Holocene; Rissa tridactyla; Black-legged Kittiwake; rissa tridactyla
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.57nr2; https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.57nr2

1. For marine top predators like seabirds, the oceans represent a multitude of habitats regarding oceanographic conditions and food availability. Worldwide, these habitats are undergoing alterations due to changes in climate and increased anthropogenic impact. This is causing a growing concern on how seabird populations might adapt to these changes. 2. Understanding how seabird populations respond to fluctuating environmental conditions and to what extent behavioural flexibility can buffer variations in food availability, can help predict how seabirds may cope with changes in the marine environment. Such knowledge is important to implement proper long-term conservation measures intended to protect marine predators. 3. We explored behavioural flexibility in choice of foraging habitat of chick-rearing black-legged kittiwakes Rissa tridactyla during multiple years. By comparing foraging behaviour of individuals from two colonies with large differences in oceanographic conditions and distances to predictable ... : Dataset for calculation of habitat used and behaviour of foraging black-legged kittiwakesThis data set contains a copy of the main data file exactly as used for this paper. The data was used to analyse habitat selection and behaviour in the foraging habitat by chick-rearing black-legged kittiwakes. This data file was made in txt, with semicolon used as separator. Please feel free to contact me if you have suggestions, find errors, inconsistencies, or any other bug in the file. As well, please let me know about your uses of this data.dataset_foraging_behaviour.txt ...