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Individuals of a group-living shorebird show smaller home range overlap when food availability is low

BACKGROUND: Group living animals, such as shorebirds foraging on intertidal mudflats, may use social information about where to find hidden food items. However, flocking also increases intraspecific competition for resources, which may be exacerbated by food scarcity. Therefore, although aggregation...

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Autores principales: Peng, He-Bo, Choi, Chi-Yeung, Ma, Zhijun, Bijleveld, Allert I., Melville, David S., Piersma, Theunis
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10612227/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37891665
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40462-023-00427-9