ArticleScience advances2021
Lightscapes of fear: How mesopredators balance starvation and predation in the open ocean.
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16 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- The Human Shield Hypothesis: Does Predator Avoidance of Humans Create Refuges for Prey?Ecology letters · 2025Pooled it
- Like night and day: a review of nocturnal predator communities and predation in annual row crop agroecosystems.Annals of the Entomological Society of America · 2026Review
- Assessment of goose-beaked whale responses to mid-frequency active sonar using a hierarchical hidden Markov model.Movement ecology · 2026Article
- Effects of carbon dioxide accumulation on post-dive physiological recovery in odontocetes.The Journal of experimental biology · 2026Article
- Top-Down and Bottom-Up Processes Jointly Explain Mesopredator Movement and Foraging Ecology.Ecology letters · 2026Article
- Spatiotemporal Variation in Marine Mammal Antipredator Behaviors Resulting From a Predation Pinch Point.Ecology and evolution · 2026Article
- The hunter or the hunted? Inferring benthic meso-predator behavior from swim velocity data.PeerJ · 2026Article
- Two decades of three-dimensional movement data from adult female northern elephant seals.Scientific data · 2024Article
- Linking movement and dive data to prey distribution models: new insights in foraging behaviour and potential pitfalls of movement analyses.Movement ecology · 2023Article
- Artificial light at night reverses monthly foraging pattern under simulated moonlight.Biology letters · 2022Article
- Whiskers as hydrodynamic prey sensors in foraging seals.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
- Behavioral responses to predatory sounds predict sensitivity of cetaceans to anthropogenic noise within a soundscape of fear.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
- Beaked whales and state-dependent decision-making: how does body condition affect the trade-off between foraging and predator avoidance?Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2022Article
- Elephant seal foraging success is enhanced in Antarctic coastal polynyas.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2022Article
- Modelling the impact of condition-dependent responses and lipid-store availability on the consequences of disturbance in a cetacean.Conservation physiology · 2022Article
- Forced into an ecological corner: Round-the-clock deep foraging on small prey by elephant seals.Science advances · 2021Article
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Abstract
Like landscapes of fear, animals are hypothesized to strategically use lightscapes based on intrinsic motivations. However, longitudinal evidence of state-dependent risk aversion has been difficult to obtain in wild animals. Using high-resolution biologgers, we continuously measured body condition, time partitioning, three-dimensional movement, and risk exposure of 71 elephant seals throughout their 7-month foraging migrations (
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