Modelling sea-bird central place foraging under anthropogenic environmental change

许多海鸟表现出复杂的觅食行为，受到筑巢地点、食物可用性和邻近殖民地觅食分布的限制。考虑到广泛的环境变化，表征这些复杂的返回觅食旅程对于理解个体觅食模式如何影响时间-能量预算至关重要，这将通过传播来塑造种群动态并为这些物种的保护提供信息。现实的生物动机（而不是纯粹的经验）觅食模型对于量化气候变化对海鸟的影响至关重要，对于理解为满足英国气候变化目标而扩大海上可再生能源的影响至关重要。

Many seabirds display complex foraging behaviours constrained by nesting sites, food availability, and foraging distributions of neighbouring colonies. Given extensive environmental variation, characterising these complex return foraging trips is vital for understanding how individual foraging patterns affecttime-energy budgets, which propagate through to shape population dynamics and inform conservation of these species. Realistic biologically-motivated (rather than purely empirical) models of foraging are crucial to quantify the consequences of climate change for seabirds, and to understand the impacts of the expansion in offshore renewable energy to meet UK climate change targets.