Data from: Boldness predicts an individual's position along an exploration-exploitation foraging trade-off ...

• Main Authors: Patrick, Samantha C., Pinaud, David, Weimerskirch, Henri
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Dryad 2017
• Subjects: albatrosses; area-restricted search; Diomedea exulans; first passage time; marginal value theorem
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.k3b1m; https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.k3b1m

Individuals do not have complete information about the environment and therefore they face a trade-off between gathering information (exploration) and gathering resources (exploitation). Studies have shown individual differences in components of this trade-off but how stable these strategies are in a population and the intrinsic drivers of these differences is not well understood. Top marine predators are expected to experience a particularly strong trade-off as many species have large foraging ranges and their prey often have a patchy distribution. This environment leads these species to exhibit pronounced exploration and exploitation phases but differences between individuals are poorly resolved. Personality differences are known to be important in foraging behaviour but also in the trade-off between exploration and exploitation. Here we test whether personality predicts an individual exploration-exploitation strategy using wide ranging wandering albatrosses (Diomedea exulans) as a model system. Using GPS ... : dryad submission ...