Project

Ecological and evolutionary drivers of foraging specialisation in lesser black-backed gulls – from causes to consequences

Code
01CD10624
Duration
01 November 2024 → 30 April 2025
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Research disciplines
  • Natural sciences
    • Animal ecology
    • behavioural ecology
    • Biology of adaptation
    • Biology of behaviour
Keywords
animal personality Foraging strategies individual variation environmental change ontogeny
 
Project description
By using GPS tracking technologies and behavioural experiments, this project aims to reveal the unknown story of foraging strategies in Lesser black-backed gulls, from the development of foraging behaviour and the influence of early life, to the sources of individual variation and the consequences on the reproductive success, in a context of global changes.