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SUBMITTER: Weber SB
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8285945 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Weber Sam B SB Richardson Andrew J AJ Brown Judith J Bolton Mark M Clark Bethany L BL Godley Brendan J BJ Leat Eliza E Oppel Steffen S Shearer Laura L Soetaert Karline E R KER Weber Nicola N Broderick Annette C AC
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20210701 28
Colonially breeding birds and mammals form some of the largest gatherings of apex predators in the natural world and have provided model systems for studying mechanisms of population regulation in animals. According to one influential hypothesis, intense competition for food among large numbers of spatially constrained foragers should result in a zone of prey depletion surrounding such colonies, ultimately limiting their size. However, while indirect and theoretical support for this phenomenon, ...[more]