ArticleOecologia2013
Temporal consistency and individual specialization in resource use by green turtles in successive life stages.
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Beyond trophic morphology: stable isotopes reveal ubiquitous versatility in marine turtle trophic ecology.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2019Pooled it
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- Fine-scale intraspecific niche partitioning in a highly mobile, marine megafauna species: implications for ecology and conservation.Royal Society open science · 2023Article
- Ecologically driven differences in individual diet specialization across three populations of Guiana dolphin.Oecologia · 2023Article
- Mechanisms of individual variation in large herbivore diets: Roles of spatial heterogeneity and state-dependent foraging.Ecology · 2023Article
- Influence of size on total mercury (THg), methyl mercury (MeHg), and stable isotopes of N and C in green turtles (Chelonia mydas) from NE Brazil.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2020Article
- Year-round individual specialization in the feeding ecology of a long-lived seabird.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Effects of age and reproductive status on individual foraging site fidelity in a long-lived marine predator.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2017Article
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- Individual specialization in the foraging habits of female bottlenose dolphins living in a trophically diverse and habitat rich estuary.Oecologia · 2015Article
- Specialists and generalists coexist within a population of spider-hunting mud dauber wasps.Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral EcologyArticle
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Abstract
Not all individuals in a population use the same subset of dietary and habitat resources. Patterns of individual specialization have been documented in an increasing number of organisms, but often without an associated time scale over which niche specialization was observed. We examined the patterns in individual resource use through time and in relation to the population with metrics of temporal consistency and degree of individual specialization. We used stable isotope analysis of carbon and nitrogen in successive subsections of scute tissue from the carapace to compare foraging patterns in three successive life stages of the green turtle (Chelonia mydas). Temporal consistency was measured as the mean within-individual variation in stable isotope values through time, whereas the degree of individual specialization was a ratio of the individual variation to that of the population. The distinction between these two parameters is important, as the metric of temporal consistency quantifies the regularity of individual resource use, and the degree of individual specialization indicates what proportion of the population niche an average individual uses. The scute record retains a chronological history of resource use and was estimated to represent a minimum 0.8 years in juveniles to a maximum of 6.5 years in adults. Both temporal consistency and individual specialization varied significantly among life stages. Adults were highly consistent in resource use through time and formed a generalist population with individual specialists maintaining long-term patterns in resource use. Oceanic and neritic juvenile life stages exhibited less temporal consistency in resource use with less individual specialization than adults. These observations are important when considering the ecological roles filled by green turtles in each life stage; also, individual differences in resource use may result in differential fitness consequences.
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