Conservation objectives for non‐breeding coastal birds (shorebirds and wildfowl) are
determined from their population size at coastal sites. To advise coastal managers, models …

Trophic interactions govern biomass fluxes in ecosystems, and stability in food webs.
Knowledge of how trophic interaction strengths are affected by differences among habitats is …

Human modification of the environment is driving declines in population size and
distributional extent of much of the world's biota. These declines extend to many of the most …

Marine predators face the challenge of reliably finding prey that is patchily distributed in
space and time. Predators make movement decisions at multiple spatial and temporal …

We develop a model of how land use and habitat diversity affect migratory bird populations
and their ability to suppress an insect pest on Jamaican coffee farms. Bird foraging …

The functional response is the relationship between the feeding rate of an animal and its
food density. It is reliant on two basic parameters; the volume searched for prey per unit time …

The relationship between intake rate and food density can provide the foundation for models
that predict the spatiotemporal distribution of organisms across a range of resource …

Routine vigilance is an important component of foraging for many species and can occupy a
large proportion of this time. Vigilance can conflict with some aspects of foraging (ie …

Simple Summary Changes in environmental conditions cause animals to adjust their
behavioral strategies to survive. We investigated foraging behavior in different habitats of …

Seed-eating birds may consume seeds in the tree (pre-dispersal predation) as well as on
the ground (post-dispersal predation), usually at contrasting microhabitat conditions. We …