Marine prey often occur in hierarchical mosaics whereby small, high-density patches
are nested inside of larger, lower density aggregations. We tested the extent to which the foraging
behavior of a marine predator (northern fur seal Callorhinus ursinus) could be explained by the
hierarchical patch structure of a dominant prey species...
Spatial coherence between predators and prey has rarely been observed in pelagic marine ecosystems. We used measures of the environment, prey abundance, prey quality, and prey distribution to explain the observed distributions of three co-occurring predator species breeding on islands in the southeastern Bering Sea: black-legged kittiwakes (Rissa tridactyla), thick-billed...