Individual Variation in Philopatry Is Unrelated to Activity and Space Use in the Undulate Skate <i>Raja undulata</i>.

ABSTRACT: Individual variation in behavior is widespread in animals. Movement traits, which describe how individuals interact with their environment, can vary across a range of spatial and temporal scales. Much research has focused on understanding individual variation in movements at large spatio-temporal scales, such as migration and dispersal, which are driven by, for example, size, age, feeding strategy, and reproductive needs. Recently, bio-logging revealed individual variation in traits at finer scales that respond to day-to-day motives (e.g., foraging, predator avoidance) such as activity, chronotype, or space use. As traits operating at different scales may respond to different mechanisms, an important yet unresolved question is whether behavioral traits covary across spatial and temporal sc

SUBMITTER: Hillinger A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12695698 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature