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Resource waves: phenological diversity enhances foraging opportunities for mobile consumers

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  • Time can be a limiting constraint for consumers, particularly when resource phenology mediates foraging opportunity. Though a large body of research has explored how resource phenology influences trophic interactions, this work has focused on the topics of trophic mismatch or predator swamping, which typically occur over short periods, at small spatial extents or coarse resolutions. In contrast many consumers integrate across landscape heterogeneity in resource phenology, moving to track ephemeral food sources that propagate across space as resource waves. Here we provide a conceptual framework to advance the study of phenological diversity and resource waves. We define resource waves, review evidence of their importance in recent case studies, and demonstrate their broader ecological significance with a simulation model. We found that consumers ranging from fig wasps (Chalcidoidea) to grizzly bears (Ursus arctos) exploit resource waves, integrating across phenological diversity to make resource aggregates available for much longer than their component parts. In model simulations, phenological diversity was often more important to consumer energy gain than resource abundance per se. Current ecosystem-based management assumes that species abundance mediates the strength of trophic interactions. Our results challenge this assumption and highlight new opportunities for conservation and management. Resource waves are an emergent property of consumer– resource interactions and are broadly significant in ecology and conservation
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  • Keywords: phenological diversity, resource wave, trophic interaction, model, ecosystem-based management, movement, foraging, time-constraint, landscape heterogeneity, phenological tracking
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  • Funding for this project was provided by the David H. Smith Conservation Research Fellowship (for J. Armstrong) and the National Science Foundation (for D. Schindler).
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