Favorable spring conditions can buffer the impact of winter carryover effects on a key breeding decision in an Arctic‐breeding seabird

• Published in: Ecology and Evolution
• Main Authors: Steenweg, Rolanda J., Crossin, Glenn T., Hennin, Holly L., Gilchrist, H. Grant, Love, Oliver P.
• Other Authors: Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2022
• Subjects: Arctic; Nunavut; Canada; Greenland; Nuuk; East Bay; Disko Bay; Newfoundland; Somateria mollissima
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.8588; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/ece3.8588; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full-xml/10.1002/ece3.8588

Abstract The availability and investment of energy among successive life‐history stages is a key feature of carryover effects. In migratory organisms, examining how both winter and spring experiences carryover to affect breeding activity is difficult due to the challenges in tracking individuals thr...