Seascapes and foraging success: Movement and resource discovery by a benthic marine herbivore

• Published in: Ecology and evolution Vol. 12; no. 9; pp. e9243 - n/a
• Main Authors: MacGregor, Kathleen A., Johnson, Ladd E.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Bognor Regis John Wiley & Sons, Inc 01.09.2022; John Wiley and Sons Inc
• Subjects: Algae; Behavioural Ecology; Consumption; Drift; drift kelp; Echinoidea; Environmental effects; Field study; Food; Foraging behavior; Grazing; Gulf of Saint Lawrence; Herbivores; Invertebrates; Landscape Ecology; Movement Ecology; northwest Atlantic; Permeability; Recolonization; rocky subtidal; Sand; Sand bars; sand substratum; Sea urchins; Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis; urchin barren; Canada; Quebec Canada

Spatially concentrated resources result in patch‐based foraging, wherein the detection and choice of patches as well as the process of locating and exploiting resource patches involve moving through an explicit landscape composed of both resources and barriers to movement. An understanding of behavi...