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DESCRIPTION:Change notice: New location: Möggingen\n Oceanic ecosystems co
 mprise Earth's largest living space. In these vast\, fluid\, and mostly da
 rk ecosystems\, resources aggregate in patchy\, fleeting hotspots of biolo
 gical activity. These conditions pose immense challenges both for resident
  lifeforms and researchers seeking to elucidate their behavior. How do oce
 anic predators find ephemeral patches of plenty in their vast &amp\; dynam
 ic home? How can researchers make the observations required to understand 
 &amp\; steward life at sea? Here I show how coordinated observations of pr
 edators\, prey\, and the fluid environment in which they interact are unve
 iling the ecology of oceanic collective behavior. I focus primarily on the
  mechanisms underlying blue whales’ collective foraging and migration. I
  present recent discoveries made across oceanic scales\, showing how physi
 cal oceanographic forcing mediates the distribution and behavior of blue w
 hales’ obligate krill prey\, which in turn influence blue whales’ prod
 uction and use of social information. Investigating these questions under 
 the unique conditions of ocean ecosystems can deepen our understanding of 
 how biophysical variation and information shape behavioral ecology and evo
 lution.\nSpeaker: Will Oestreich
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LOCATION:MPI-AB Möggingen\, Room: Seminar room MPI-AB Möggingen + Online
ORGANIZER;CN=Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior:mailto:spashchevskaya@
 ab.mpg.de
SUMMARY:Institute Seminar by Will Oestreich:  The ecology of collective beh
 avior across oceanic scales 
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