Biology – Quantitative Biology – Populations and Evolution
Scientific paper
2011-12-16
PLoS ONE 7(4) e34317, 2012
Biology
Quantitative Biology
Populations and Evolution
Submitted first to PLoS-ONE on 26/9/2011. Final version published on 14/04/2012
Scientific paper
10.1371/journal.pone.0034317
Many attempts to relate animal foraging patterns to landscape heterogeneity are focused on the analysis of foragers movements. Resource detection patterns in space and time are not commonly studied, yet they are tightly coupled to landscape properties and add relevant information on foraging behavior. By exploring simple foraging models in unpredictable environments we show that the distribution of intervals between detected prey (detection statistics)is mostly determined by the spatial structure of the prey field and essentially distinct from predator displacement statistics. Detections are expected to be Poissonian in uniform random environments for markedly different foraging movements (e.g. L\'evy and ballistic). This prediction is supported by data on the time intervals between diving events on short-range foraging seabirds such as the thick-billed murre ({\it Uria lomvia}). However, Poissonian detection statistics is not observed in long-range seabirds such as the wandering albatross ({\it Diomedea exulans}) due to the fractal nature of the prey field, covering a wide range of spatial scales. For this scenario, models of fractal prey fields induce non-Poissonian patterns of detection in good agreement with two albatross data sets. We find that the specific shape of the distribution of time intervals between prey detection is mainly driven by meso and submeso-scale landscape structures and depends little on the forager strategy or behavioral responses.
Bartumeus Frederic
Boyer Denis
Miramontes Octavio
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