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DESCRIPTION: Oceanic ecosystems comprise Earth's largest living space. In t
 hese vast\, fluid\, and mostly dark ecosystems\, resources aggregate in pa
 tchy\, fleeting hotspots of biological activity. These conditions pose imm
 ense challenges both for resident lifeforms and researchers seeking to elu
 cidate their behavior. How do oceanic predators find ephemeral patches of 
 plenty in their vast &amp\; dynamic home? How can researchers make the obs
 ervations required to understand &amp\; steward life at sea? Here I show h
 ow coordinated observations of predators\, prey\, and the fluid environmen
 t in which they interact are unveiling the ecology of oceanic collective b
 ehavior. I focus primarily on the mechanisms underlying blue whales’ col
 lective foraging and migration. I present recent discoveries made across o
 ceanic scales\, showing how physical oceanographic forcing mediates the di
 stribution and behavior of blue whales’ obligate krill prey\, which in t
 urn influence blue whales’ production and use of social information. Inv
 estigating these questions under the unique conditions of ocean ecosystems
  can deepen our understanding of how biophysical variation and information
  shape behavioral ecology and evolution.\nSpeaker: Will Oestreich
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LOCATION:Bückle St. 5a\, 78467 Konstanz\, Room: Seminar room MPI-AB Bückl
 estrasse + 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 
URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.ab.mpg.de/events/43998/332793
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