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SUBMITTER: Phillips JA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC10516677 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep-Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Phillips Jessica A JA Guilford Tim T Fayet Annette L AL
Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology 20230711 5
In many seabird species, parents feeding young switch between short and long foraging excursions in a strategy known as "dual foraging." To investigate whether habitat quality near breeding colonies drives the use of dual foraging, we conducted a review of the seabird literature, compiling the results of 102 studies which identified dual-foraging in 50 species across nine families from all six seabird orders. We estimated the mean distance from the colony of each species' short and long foraging ...[more]