In most bird species, breeding individuals behave as central-place foragers during reproduction, commuting regularly between the breeding site and foraging areas to find food for both self-maintenance and offspring rearing. Such movements are constrained by the need to find enough resources around the breeding site in a short time and may be modulated by several factors, including resource availability, weather, and breeding p...

Climate change is a major threat to biodiversity, and migratory animals are particularly vulnerable, due partly to their reliance upon good resource availability across a network of sites at specific times. Migrants perform vital ecosystem functions, transferring significant resources across large spatial scales, but the impacts of climate change on the ability of individuals to complete these journeys are poorly studied. Coll...

Sensitivity of marine ecosystems to human disturbance leads to an increasing need to devise effective conservation initiatives. One key conservation leverage tool is the establishment of marine protected areas, which can be derived by inspecting where marine sentinel species forage in their most sensitive life cycle phase (reproduction). Depending on their biological and legislative framework, important conservation areas (her...