Lang, SDJ, Mann, RP orcid.org/0000-0003-0701-1274 and Farine, DR (2019) Temporal activity patterns of predators and prey across broad geographic scales. Behavioral Ecology, 30 (1). pp. 172-180. ISSN 1045-2249
Abstract
Predators and prey are locked in an evolutionary arms race that shapes their behavior and life history. Predators target prey vulnerabilities to maximize hunting success, while prey trade-off foraging against predation avoidance. Though studies have demonstrated how predation risk can alter how prey allocate daily foraging effort, little work has considered the implications of this temporal component of behavior from a predator’s perspective, or assessed its influence on broad-scale predator–prey interactions. We develop a method to compare daily activity patterns of avian predators and prey using data from 2 large citizen science datasets collected on different continents. Our analyses reveal evidence for convergent daily hunting strategies across avian predators, with distinct differences according to prey type. By comparing predator data with correspondent data from songbirds, our study suggests that predators (Accipiters) specialized to hunt songbirds match the activity patterns of their prey species. These results indicate predators have evolved common temporal hunting strategies to exploit temporal patterns in prey behavior.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s) 2018. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology. This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced version of an article accepted for publication in Behavioral Ecology following peer review. The version of record is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/ary133. |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Engineering & Physical Sciences (Leeds) > School of Mathematics (Leeds) > Statistics (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 04 Sep 2018 10:06 |
Last Modified: | 24 Oct 2019 00:38 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
Identification Number: | 10.1093/beheco/ary133 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:135241 |