Digestive bottleneck affects foraging decisions in red knots Calidris canutus. I. Prey choice

By J. Gils, S. R. Rooij, J. V. Belle, Jaap van der Meer, Anne Dekinga, T. Piersma, R. Drent. 2005

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Subfields: Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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In Ecology

1. T. Piersma
2. Anne Dekinga
3. J. Gils
4. B. Spaans
5. W. K. Vahl
6. Jaap van der Meer
7. J. Newton
8. R. A. Robinson

In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. T. Piersma
2. J. Gils
3. Anne Dekinga
4. B. Spaans
5. W. K. Vahl
6. Jaap van der Meer
7. J. Newton
8. R. A. Robinson

In Nature and Landscape Conservation

1. T. Piersma
2. Anne Dekinga
3. J. Gils
4. Jaap van der Meer
5. J. Newton
6. R. A. Robinson
7. P. Atkinson
8. C. Kraan

Citations in the corpus

• Using the power of comparison to explain habitat use and migration strategies of shorebirds worldwide (2007, background): “…molluscs (Prater 1972; Piersma 1991; Piersma et al. 1993b, 1994; González et al. 1996; van Gils et al. 2005c), sometimes supplemented with easily accessed softer prey, such as crustaceans (Alerstam et al. 1992; van Gils et al. 2005b) and even polychaetes (P.M. González, personal communication).”
• Captive and free-living red knots Calidris canutus exhibit differences in non-induced immunity that suggest different immune strategies in different environments (2008, background): “Immune function did not differ with time of sampling (Appendix 1), which is not surprising since red knots can be active at night in captivity (T. Piersma unpubl data) and are known to feed at night in the wild (e.g. Sitters et al. 2001, van Gils et al. 2005, Leyrer et al. 2006, Rogers et al. 2006).”
• Rates of mass gain and energy deposition in red knot on their final spring staging site is both time‐ and condition‐dependent (2007, background): “…is similar to the Dutch Wadden Sea, where there is evidence that recently arrived birds (i.e. those having small gizzards) feed on soft food (crabs and shrimps), while those that have been there for longer (i.e. those having bigger gizzards) feed on hard-shelled bivalves (van Gils et al. 2005c).”
• Digestively constrained predators evade the cost of interference competition (2004, background): “the soft-bodied crustaceans (Carcinus maenas, Crangon crangon and Gammarus spec.; containing on average 20 mg indigestible matter/prey, Van Gils et al. 2004) were less densely packed (p = 0.01) than flocks that fed on hardshelled molluscs (containing on average 78 mg indigestible matter/prey, Van G”
• Digestive bottleneck affects foraging decisions in red knots Calidris canutus. II. Patch choice and length of working day (2005, methodology): “From prey items collected throughout Grienderwaard in AugSep 1998 as part of a larger survey (Piersma et al. 2001) we determined metabolizable energy content e and ballast mass k as described by Van Gils et al. 2004 (experiment 1).”
• Dredging for edible cockles (Cerastoderma edule) on intertidal flats: short-term consequences of fisher patch-choice decisions for target and non-target benthic fauna (2007, background): “These surveys, carried out independently of the fishery, aimed at documenting benthic food abundance to gain an understanding of shorebird distributions (Van Gils et al. 2005c, 2006c).”