Ashley Bennison

TL;DR: The methods used to date to study fisheries competition with seabirds are reviewed, “best practices” for future resource competition assessments are presented, and an integrated approach is most promising to obtain robust scientific results.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors used body-mounted accelerometers for estimating power use in flying birds, as the signal varies with the two major kinematic determinants of aerodynamic power: wingbeat frequency and amplitude, and found that birds were more likely to modulate amplitude for more energy-demanding flight modes, including climbing and take-off.

TL;DR: It is suggested that blue sharks may be using surface waters during twilight periods to maximise foraging opportunities and light conditions at dawn are consistent with surface-dwelling prey being both more dispersed and silhouetted by ambient light conditions, making individual prey more visible.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used nine years of passive acoustic monitoring data paired with environmental covariates to better understand the spatio-temporal dynamics of harbour porpoise and dolphin species using generalised estimating equations-generalised linear models.