Predicting the Dynamics of Aggregate Loafing Behavior in Gulls

Document Type

Contribution to Book

Publication Date

6-24-2023

Abstract

Research reported in this chapter was the initial project carried out by the Seabird Ecology Team. It provided one of the first rigorous demonstrations that a differential equation model using environmental variables can be used to describe, explain, and accurately predict the aggregate behavior of marine vertebrates. It also served as the impetus and conceptual basis for much of the work in the remaining chapters of this volume. Hypothesis formation, data collection, and analysis were carried out by senior researchers Shandelle Henson, James Hayward, and Joseph Galusha, with the assistance of undergraduate students Christina Burden and Clara Logan. The initial report of this work was published in The Auk in 2004 [20].

Volume

57

First Page

5

Last Page

21

Book Title

Modeling Behavior and Population Dynamics: Seabirds, Seals, and Marine Iguanas

Editor

Jim M. Cushing, Shandelle M. Henson, & James L. Hayward

Publisher

Springer

City

Cham, Switzerland

Series

Interdisciplinary Applied Mathematics

ISBN

978-3-031-34283-7

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-34283-7_1

First Department

Mathematics

Second Department

Biology

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