We ended up choosing the pursuit rule that seemed most supported by the literature for terrestrial running animals, direct pursuit.
Maximum speed in terrestrial running animals tends to increase to an asymptote with body mass (Garland, 1983) and this process is driven by increases in leg length with body size, which facilitates higher speeds (Garland, 1983; Bejan and Marden, 2006), being ultimately limited by the scaling of body mass relative to leg strength (Alexander, 2002b).
The major sources of iron for the oceans are from wind-blown terrestrially derived dust [29] or in coastal regions, from rivers and terrestrial run-off [30].
Though not yet scientifically proven, the disease has been linked to water pollution because many of the affected turtles were found near areas of heavy human use and terrestrial run-off.
More directly, MPAs could prevent destructive fishing practices, anchor damage, and terrestrial run-off if they include a terrestrial component that reduces sedimentation and nutrient pollution.
Research to identify these mechanisms has focused on the effects of overfishing, habitat destruction, tourism, global warming, and increases in nutrients from terrestrial run-off [86] [88].
There is no description of the exact source of the sea water (other than the Sea of Japan) in the original study [28], hence it could have easily represented the remnants of terrestrial run-off.
There, a gradient in different environmental parameters was expected associated with the decreasing influence of terrestrial run-off from the mouth of the glacier towards open Arctic waters and from surface to deep waters.
For our study site of Jennycliff Bay, as for other coastal sediments, inorganic nutrient concentrations in the overlying water generally increase during the winter, when terrestrial run-off is high (Fig. S1).
Nr-removal processes play a critical role in coastal sediments, where terrestrial run-off can stimulate eutrophication events in coastal waters, particularly during autumn, when both precipitation rates and the input of agricultural nutrients into estuarine waters are high (Beman et al., 2005; Fig. S1).
The burrowing owls, however, being terrestrial, can run rapidly over the ground and rarely perch in vegetation.
