Supplementary material from "Faithful pals and familiar locales: differentiating social and spatial site fidelity during reproduction" ...
Site fidelity – the tendency to reuse familiar spaces – is expected to improve fitness. Familiarity with the local environment is particularly crucial when resource demands or predation risk are high. Consequently, site fidelity often peaks during reproduction when energetic costs are high and offsp...
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The Royal Society
2024
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| Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.7425752 https://rs.figshare.com/collections/Supplementary_material_from_Faithful_pals_and_familiar_locales_differentiating_social_and_spatial_site_fidelity_during_reproduction_/7425752 |
| Summary: | Site fidelity – the tendency to reuse familiar spaces – is expected to improve fitness. Familiarity with the local environment is particularly crucial when resource demands or predation risk are high. Consequently, site fidelity often peaks during reproduction when energetic costs are high and offspring are vulnerable. For many species, the environment they experience is not solely a function of geography, but also of the social environment. Social fidelity, the selection for familiar social environments, could constitute an independent or parallel strategy to spatial fidelity when considering behaviour at the spatial-social interface. Using GPS locations from caribou across Newfoundland, we tested whether females selected calving sites based on proximity to familiar conspecifics, in addition to geographic (spatial) fidelity. These strategies were synergistic, not alternative, and correlated across the population but more variable within individuals. We also tested whether either form of fidelity affected ... |
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