Northern Gannet foraging trip length increases with colony size and decreases with latitude

• Published in: Royal Society Open Science
• Main Authors: Clark, Bethany L., Vigfúsdóttir, Freydís, Wanless, Sarah, Hamer, Keith C., Bodey, Thomas, Bearhop, Stuart, Bennison, Ashley, Blackburn, Jez, Cox, Sam L., d’Entremont, Kyle J. N., Garthe, Stefan, Grémillet, David, Jessopp, Mark J., Lane, Jude, Lescroël, Amélie, Montevecchi, William A., Pascall, David J., Provost, Pascal, Wakefield, Ewan D., Warwick‐ Evans, Victoria, Wischnewski, Saskia, Wright, Lucy J., Votier, Stephen C.
• Other Authors: University of Aberdeen.Biological Sciences
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2024
• Subjects: central place foraging; coloniality; species distributions; bio-logging; predator–prey; seabird; QH301 Biology; Supplementary Information; https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.7410582; QH301; Archibald; Bogdanova; Deakin; Françoise; Gonzalez; Grassholm; Laver; Meier; Moreno; Nicholson; Newfoundland
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/2164/24228; https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.240708

We thank Emma Wood for advice on analysis and presenting results, Alice Williams, Richard Phillips and Brendan Godley for comments on the text, and the Fundamental & Applied Biogeography group at the University of Exeter led by Regan Early for feedback. Fieldwork on Grassholm was made possible with the help of Greg Morgan and Lisa Morgan and with permission from RSPB. Many people assisted with fieldwork on Grassholm, including Richard Sherley, Anthony Bicknell, Ian R. Cleasby, James Grecian, Sam Patrick, Kelly Atkins, Kylie Scales, Tim Guilford, Claudia Stauss, Sylvie Vandanabeele, Nicola Childs, Pearl Costello, Rocio Moreno, Matthew Gummery, Lisa Sztukowski, Jana Jeglinski, Matthew Carter, Matthew Nicholson, Dimas Gianuca, Rhiannon Meier, Laura Zango, Kirsten Archibald, Jacob Gonzalez-Solis, Jen Tyler, Tommy Clay, Calum Laver, Melanie Wells, Zoe Deakin, Zoe Courchene, Richard Phillips, John Arnould, Emma Dwan, Jack Wright, Georgia Bardua, Paulo Catry, Sarah Parmor and Megan Francis. For St Kilda data collection and processing we thank Stuart Murray and Maria Bogdanova, and the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology for funding. For help with fieldwork on Rouzic, we thank François Siorat, Mélanie Le Nuz, Clara Péron, Tangi le Bot, Sam Patrick, Françoise Amélineau, Nory El Kasbi, Thierry Boulinier and Jérôme Fort. We acknowledge the support of Point Blue Conservation Science. Tracking data from Newfoundland was supported by NSERC grants to W.A.M. Peer reviewed