Individual Variation in Philopatry Is Unrelated to Activity and Space Use in the Undulate Skate Raja undulata
Alina Hillinger, David Villegas‐Ríos, Christopher T. Monk, Kenn Papadopoulo, Gonzalo Mucientes, Alexandre Alonso‐Fernández · 2025
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Description
Some skates stay home for years while their neighbors roam, and whether homebodies also live quieter daily lives was unknown. Alina Hillinger and co-authors tracked 179 undulate skates with acoustic tags over four years in a Spanish coastal archipelago in 2025. Daily presence sorted the fish into three styles: always resident, seasonal, and faithful to a site without full residence.
Daily activity and home range size went together and differed consistently from fish to fish. But neither trait lined up with the residency style. The authors read home-keeping and daily tempo as separate axes of behavior, shaped by different pressures, so selection on one should not drag the other along.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Alina Hillinger, David Villegas‐Ríos, Christopher T. Monk, Kenn Papadopoulo, Gonzalo Mucientes, Alexandre Alonso‐Fernández |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 47 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |