9 results on '"Bentley, Lily K."'
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2. Spatial and life history variation in a trait-based species vulnerability and impact model.
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Fleury, Aharon G., O'Hara, Casey C., Butt, Nathalie, Restrepo, Jaime, Halpern, Benjamin S., Klein, Carissa J., Kuempel, Caitlin D., Gaynor, Kaitlyn M., Bentley, Lily K., Richardson, Anthony J., and Dunn, Daniel C.
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LIFE history theory ,MARINE heatwaves ,BIODIVERSITY conservation ,GREEN turtle ,ECOLOGICAL models ,MARINE pollution - Abstract
Anthropogenic pressures threaten biodiversity, necessitating conservation actions founded on robust ecological models. However, prevailing models inadequately capture the spatiotemporal variation in environmental pressures faced by species with high mobility or complex life histories, as data are often aggregated across species' life histories or spatial distributions. We highlight the limitations of static models for dynamic species and incorporate life history variation and spatial distributions for species and stressors into a trait-based vulnerability and impact model. We use green sea turtles in the Greater Caribbean Region to demonstrate how vulnerability and anthropogenic impact for a dynamic species change across four life stages. By incorporating life stages into a trait-based vulnerability model, we observed life stage-specific vulnerabilities that were otherwise unnoticed when using an aggregated trait value set. Early life stages were more vulnerable to some stressors, such as inorganic pollution or marine heat waves, and less vulnerable to others, such as bycatch. Incorporating spatial distributions of stressors and life stages revealed impacts differ for each life stage across spatial areas, emphasizing the importance of stage-specific conservation measures. Our approach showcases the importance of incorporating dynamic processes into ecological models and will enable better and more targeted conservation actions for species with complex life histories and high mobility. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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3. Habitat preferences of Phoebetria albatrosses in sympatry and allopatry.
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Bentley, Lily K., Phillips, Richard A., Carpenter‐Kling, Tegan, Crawford, Robert J. M., Cuthbert, Richard J., Delord, Karine, Dilley, Ben J., Makhado, Azwianewi B., Miller, Peter I., Oppel, Steffen, Pistorius, Pierre A., Ryan, Peter G., Schoombie, Stefan, Weimerskirch, Henri, and Manica, Andrea
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Aim Location Taxon Methods Results Main Conclusions Competition is often proposed to drive niche segregation along multiple axes in speciose communities. Understanding spatial partitioning of foraging areas is particularly important in species that are constrained to a central place. We present a natural experiment examining variation in habitat preferences of congeneric Southern Ocean predators in sympatry and allopatry. Our aim was to ascertain consistency of habitat preferences within species, and to test whether preferences changed in the presence of the congener.Southern Hemisphere.Multiple colonies of both species within the genus Phoebetria (sooty albatrosses).The two Phoebetria albatrosses breed on islands located from ~37–55°S – sooty albatrosses (P. fusca) in the north and light‐mantled albatrosses (P. palpebrata) in the south – with sympatric overlap at locations ~46–49°S. We analysed GPS and PTT tracks from 87 individuals and multiple remotely sensed environmental variables using GAMs, to determine and compare the key factors influencing habitat preference for each species at each breeding colony.While foraging habitat preferences are consistent in light‐mantled albatrosses, there is divergence of preferences in sooty albatrosses depending on whether they are in sympatry with their congener or in allopatry.This study represents the most comprehensive work on this genus to date and highlights how habitat preferences and behavioural plasticity may influence species distributions under different competitive conditions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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4. Climate shaped how Neolithic farmers and European hunter-gatherers interacted after a major slowdown from 6,100 bce to 4,500 bce
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Betti, Lia, Beyer, Robert M., Jones, Eppie R., Eriksson, Anders, Tassi, Francesca, Siska, Veronika, Leonardi, Michela, Maisano Delser, Pierpaolo, Bentley, Lily K., Nigst, Philip R., Stock, Jay T., Pinhasi, Ron, and Manica, Andrea
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- 2020
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5. Divergent foraging habitat preferences between summer‐breeding and winter‐breeding Procellaria petrels
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Bentley, Lily K., primary, Manica, Andrea, additional, Dilley, Ben J., additional, Ryan, Peter G., additional, and Phillips, Richard A., additional
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- 2022
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6. Divergent foraging habitat preferences between summer-breeding and winter-breeding Procellaria petrels
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Bentley, Lily K, Manica, Andrea, Dilley, Ben J, Ryan, Peter G, Phillips, Richard A, Bentley, Lily K [0000-0002-0365-6385], Phillips, Richard A [0000-0002-0208-1444], and Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
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seabird ,movement ecology ,Antarctica ,congeners - Abstract
Funder: British Antarctic Survey; Id: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100007849, Funder: Foreign and Commonwealth Office; Id: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000617, Funder: Gates Cambridge Trust; Id: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100005370, Funder: Government of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, Funder: South African National Antarctic Program, Foraging niche specialization is thought to occur when different members of speciose communities divide resources in either time or space. Here we compared habitat preferences of the congeneric Grey Petrel Procellaria cinerea and White‐chinned Petrel Procellaria aequinoctialis, tracked in the same calendar year using GPS loggers from Gough Island and Bird Island (South Georgia), respectively. We identified periods of active foraging and determined habitat characteristics using remote‐sensing data. Although these highly pelagic species could potentially overlap at sea across large areas, they showed markedly different foraging preferences during their incubation periods, which are temporally offset because Grey Petrels breed during the austral winter. Grey Petrels foraged mostly in pelagic cold‐water areas to the north‐west of South Georgia, whereas White‐chinned Petrels foraged almost exclusively in the warm, shallow waters of the Patagonian Shelf. Within each species, foraging habitat characteristics were highly consistent. Our results demonstrate the diversity of habitat preferences within genera, and provide further evidence that colony‐specific information on habitat preference is crucial to identify important feeding areas for pelagic predators.
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- 2022
7. Divergent foraging habitat preferences between summer‐breeding and winter‐breeding Procellaria petrels.
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Bentley, Lily K., Manica, Andrea, Dilley, Ben J., Ryan, Peter G., and Phillips, Richard A.
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HABITAT selection ,PETRELS ,WINTER ,WATER depth ,FORAGE - Abstract
Foraging niche specialization is thought to occur when different members of speciose communities divide resources in either time or space. Here we compared habitat preferences of the congeneric Grey Petrel Procellaria cinerea and White‐chinned Petrel Procellaria aequinoctialis, tracked in the same calendar year using GPS loggers from Gough Island and Bird Island (South Georgia), respectively. We identified periods of active foraging and determined habitat characteristics using remote‐sensing data. Although these highly pelagic species could potentially overlap at sea across large areas, they showed markedly different foraging preferences during their incubation periods, which are temporally offset because Grey Petrels breed during the austral winter. Grey Petrels foraged mostly in pelagic cold‐water areas to the north‐west of South Georgia, whereas White‐chinned Petrels foraged almost exclusively in the warm, shallow waters of the Patagonian Shelf. Within each species, foraging habitat characteristics were highly consistent. Our results demonstrate the diversity of habitat preferences within genera, and provide further evidence that colony‐specific information on habitat preference is crucial to identify important feeding areas for pelagic predators. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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8. Climate shaped how Neolithic farmers and European hunter-gatherers interacted after a major slowdown from 6,100 BCE to 4,500 BCE
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Betti, Lia, Beyer, Robert M, Jones, Eppie R, Eriksson, Anders, Tassi, Francesca, Siska, Veronika, Leonardi, Michela, Maisano Delser, Pierpaolo, Bentley, Lily K, Nigst, Philip R, Stock, Jay T, Pinhasi, Ron, and Manica, Andrea
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2. Zero hunger ,Europe ,Middle East ,13. Climate action ,Climate ,Population Dynamics ,Humans ,Paleontology ,Agriculture ,DNA, Ancient ,History, Ancient - Abstract
The Neolithic transition in Europe was driven by the rapid dispersal of Near Eastern farmers who, over a period of 3,500 years, brought food production to the furthest corners of the continent. However, this wave of expansion was far from homogeneous, and climatic factors may have driven a marked slowdown observed at higher latitudes. Here, we test this hypothesis by assembling a large database of archaeological dates of first arrival of farming to quantify the expansion dynamics. We identify four axes of expansion and observe a slowdown along three axes when crossing the same climatic threshold. This threshold reflects the quality of the growing season, suggesting that Near Eastern crops might have struggled under more challenging climatic conditions. This same threshold also predicts the mixing of farmers and hunter-gatherers as estimated from ancient DNA, suggesting that unreliable yields in these regions might have favoured the contact between the two groups.
9. Climate shaped how Neolithic farmers and European hunter-gatherers interacted after a major slowdown from 6,100 bce to 4,500 bce
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Jay T. Stock, Francesca Tassi, Andrea Manica, Lia Betti, Michela Leonardi, Veronika Siska, Pierpaolo Maisano Delser, Robert Beyer, Philip R. Nigst, Ron Pinhasi, Anders Eriksson, Lily K. Bentley, Eppie R. Jones, Betti, Lia [0000-0003-2895-9718], Beyer, Robert M [0000-0003-2673-3096], Jones, Eppie R [0000-0002-4590-5415], Eriksson, Anders [0000-0003-3436-3726], Tassi, Francesca [0000-0001-8310-323X], Siska, Veronika [0000-0002-8057-1203], Leonardi, Michela [0000-0001-8933-9374], Maisano Delser, Pierpaolo [0000-0002-1844-1715], Bentley, Lily K [0000-0002-0365-6385], Nigst, Philip R [0000-0001-7330-8768], Stock, Jay T [0000-0003-0147-8631], Manica, Andrea [0000-0003-1895-450X], and Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
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Social Psychology ,Slowdown ,Climate ,Population Dynamics ,Growing season ,Experimental and Cognitive Psychology ,Latitude ,Middle East ,03 medical and health sciences ,Behavioral Neuroscience ,0302 clinical medicine ,Humans ,DNA, Ancient ,History, Ancient ,030304 developmental biology ,2. Zero hunger ,0303 health sciences ,business.industry ,Paleontology ,Agriculture ,Europe ,Geography ,Ancient DNA ,13. Climate action ,Paleoecology ,Period (geology) ,Biological dispersal ,Physical geography ,business ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery - Abstract
The Neolithic transition in Europe was driven by the rapid dispersal of Near Eastern farmers who, over a period of 3,500 years, brought food production to the furthest corners of the continent. However, this wave of expansion was far from homogeneous, and climatic factors may have driven a marked slowdown observed at higher latitudes. Here, we test this hypothesis by assembling a large database of archaeological dates of first arrival of farming to quantify the expansion dynamics. We identify four axes of expansion and observe a slowdown along three axes when crossing the same climatic threshold. This threshold reflects the quality of the growing season, suggesting that Near Eastern crops might have struggled under more challenging climatic conditions. This same threshold also predicts the mixing of farmers and hunter-gatherers as estimated from ancient DNA, suggesting that unreliable yields in these regions might have favoured the contact between the two groups. By synthesizing information on archaeological sites, palaeoclimate reconstructions and ancient DNA, Betti et al. show that the Neolithic expansion in Europe was not a continuous process of diffusion, but a series of climate-driven episodes of varying speeds.
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- 2020
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