Environmental drivers of individual and population movement strategies in kittiwakes

I explored the influence of environmental heterogeneity, as a proxy for resource patchiness, on black-legged kittiwake, Rissa tridactyla, habitat selection, individual consistency, and reproductive success, during my PhD at the University of Liverpool.

Key findings:

Trevail, A. M., Green, J. A., Sharples, J., Polton, J. A., Arnould, J. P. Y., & Patrick, S. C. (2019). Environmental heterogeneity amplifies behavioural response to a temporal cycle. Oikos, 128(4), 517–528. https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.05579

Trevail, A. M., Green, J. A., Sharples, J., Polton, J. A., Miller, P. I., Daunt, F., Owen, E., Bolton, M., Colhoun, K., Newton, S., Robertson, G., & Patrick, S. C. (2019). Environmental heterogeneity decreases reproductive success via effects on foraging behaviour. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 286(1904), 20190795. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.0795

Trevail, A. M., Green, J. A., Bolton, M., Daunt, F., Harris, S. M., Miller, P. I., Newton, S., Owen, E., Polton, J. A., Robertson, G., Sharples, J., & Patrick, S. C. (2021). Environmental heterogeneity promotes individual specialisation in habitat selection in a widely distributed seabird. Journal of Animal Ecology, 90(12), 2875–2887. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.13588

Williams, H. J., Taylor, L. A., Benhamou, S., Bijleveld, A. I., Clay, T. A., Grissac, S., Demšar, U., English, H. M., Franconi, N., Gómez‐Laich, A., Griffiths, R. C., Kay, W. P., Morales, J. M., Potts, J. R., Rogerson, K. F., Rutz, C., Spelt, A., Trevail, A. M., Wilson, R. P., & Börger, L. (2020). Optimizing the use of biologgers for movement ecology research. Journal of Animal Ecology, 89(1), 186–206. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.13094