Ontogeny shapes individual dietary specialization in female european brown bears (ursus arctos)

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• What: The study shows that social learning and maternal effects were more important for individual dietary specialization than environmental composition. The authors propose a tighter integration of social effects into studies of range expansion and habitat selection under global change. The authors provide an additional reduced analysis including the relationship between maternal and male offspring trophic position in the two four years after family breakup and of the relationship between paternal trophic position and offspring trophic position. As the authors were interested in the drivers of lifelong variation of dietary niche, and male offspring were only monitored . . .
  

   

  

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