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Individual Mechanical Energy Expenditure Regimens Vary Seasonally with Weather, Sex, Age and Body Condition in a Generalist Carnivore Population: Support for Inter-Individual Tactical Diversity.

Julius G Bright Ross, Andrew Markham, Michael J Noonan, Christina D Buesching, Erin Connolly, Denise W Pallett, Yadvinder Malhi, David W Macdonald, Chris Newman

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Article in Animals : an open access journal from MDPI, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Julius G Bright RossWildlife Conservation Research Unit, Department of Biology, University of Oxford, The Recanati-Kaplan Centre, Tubney House, Abingdon Rd, Tubney OX13 5QL, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-2454-1592
Andrew MarkhamDepartment of Computer Science, University of Oxford, Wolfson Building, Parks Road, Oxford OX2 3QD, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-5716-3941
Michael J NoonanThe Irving K. Barber School of Arts and Sciences, The University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus, Kelowna, BC V1V 1V7, Canada.ORCID 0000-0003-4512-0535
Christina D BueschingThe Irving K. Barber School of Arts and Sciences, The University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus, Kelowna, BC V1V 1V7, Canada.
Erin ConnollyCentre for Biodiversity and Environment Research, Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-3230-8061
Denise W PallettUK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Wallingford OX10 8BB, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-3981-6547
Yadvinder MalhiEnvironmental Change Institute, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QY, UK.
David W MacdonaldWildlife Conservation Research Unit, Department of Biology, University of Oxford, The Recanati-Kaplan Centre, Tubney House, Abingdon Rd, Tubney OX13 5QL, UK.
Chris NewmanCarnivore Ecology and Conservation Research Group, Institute of Agriculture, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Saiwaicho 3-5-8, Fuchu, Tokyo 183-8509, Japan.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Diverse individual energy-budgeting tactics within wild populations provide resilience to natural fluctuations in food availability and expenditure costs. Although substantial heterogeneity in activity-related energy expenditure has been documented, few studies differentiate between responses to the environment and inter-individual differences stemming from life history, allometry, or somatic stores. Using tri-axial accelerometry, complemented by diet analysis, we investigated inter-individual within-season variation in overall dynamic body acceleration (ODBA; activity intensity measure) and "Activity" (above an ODBA threshold) in a high-density population of European badgers (

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activity profilesage differencesbehavioral plasticitybehavioral thermoregulationdynamic heterogeneitytri-axial accelerometry

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PMID40509025
PMCPMC12153667

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