Ontogeny of movement patterns and habitat selection in juvenile albatrosses

• Published in: Oikos
• Main Authors: Frankish, Caitlin K., Manica, Andrea, Clay, Thomas A., Wood, Andrew G., Phillips, Richard A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2022
• Subjects: Bird Island
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/532516/; https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/532516/1/Oikos%20-%202022%20-%20Frankish%20-%20Ontogeny%20of%20movement%20patterns%20and%20habitat%20selection%20in%20juvenile%20albatrosses.pdf; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/oik.09057

Optimal selection of foraging habitats is key to survival, but it remains unclear how naïve individuals are able to locate patchily-distributed resources and maximize energy gain in completely new environments. In most animals, juveniles disperse unaccompanied by their parents, and hence their movem...