ArticleOecologia2015
Environmental variability drives shifts in the foraging behaviour and reproductive success of an inshore seabird.
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- Breeding Partners Have Dissimilar Foraging Strategies in a Long-Lived Arctic Seabird.Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- Divorce Rates Better Predict Population-Level Reproductive Success in Little Penguins Than Foraging Behaviour or Environmental Factors.Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- Exploring subcolony differences in foraging and reproductive success: the influence of environmental conditions on a central place foraging seabird.Royal Society open science · 2023Article
- Climate change and commercial fishing practices codetermine survival of a long-lived seabird.Global change biology · 2023Article
- Variability in prey field structure drives inter-annual differences in prey encounter by a marine predator, the little penguin.Royal Society open science · 2022Article
- Important marine areas for endangered African penguins before and after the crucial stage of moulting.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Influence of environmental variation on spatial distribution and habitat-use in a benthic foraging marine predator.Royal Society open science · 2021Article
- Making the most of the old age: Autumn breeding as an extra reproductive investment in older seabirds.Ecology and evolution · 2021Article
- Environmental influences on foraging effort, success and efficiency in female Australian fur seals.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Genome-wide analyses reveal drivers of penguin diversification.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020Article
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- Interpopulation resource partitioning of Lesser Frigatebirds and the influence of environmental context.Ecology and evolution · 2016Article
- Weathering a Dynamic Seascape: Influences of Wind and Rain on a Seabird's Year-Round Activity Budgets.PloS one · 2015Article
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Abstract
Marine animals forage in areas that aggregate prey to maximize their energy intake. However, these foraging 'hot spots' experience environmental variability, which can substantially alter prey availability. To survive and reproduce animals need to modify their foraging in response to these prey shifts. By monitoring their inter-annual foraging behaviours, we can understand which environmental variables affect their foraging efficiency, and can assess how they respond to environmental variability. Here, we monitored the foraging behaviour and isotopic niche of little penguins (Eudyptula minor), over 3 years (2008, 2011, and 2012) of climatic and prey variability within Port Phillip Bay, Australia. During drought (2008), penguins foraged in close proximity to the Yarra River outlet on a predominantly anchovy-based diet. In periods of heavy rainfall, when water depth in the largest tributary into the bay (Yarra River) was high, the total distance travelled, maximum distance travelled, distance to core-range, and size of core- and home-ranges of penguins increased significantly. This larger foraging range was associated with broad dietary diversity and high reproductive success. These results suggest the increased foraging range and dietary diversity of penguins were a means to maximize resource acquisition rather than a strategy to overcome local depletions in prey. Our results demonstrate the significance of the Yarra River in structuring predator-prey interactions in this enclosed bay, as well as the flexible foraging strategies of penguins in response to environmental variability. This plasticity is central to the survival of this small-ranging, resident seabird species.
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