Lower nutritional state and foraging success in an Arctic seabird despite behaviorally flexible responses to environmental change

• Published in: Ecology and Evolution
• Main Authors: Eby, Alyssa, Patterson, Allison, Sorenson, Graham, Lazarus, Thomas, Whelan, Shannon, Elliott, Kyle H., Gilchrist, H. Grant, Love, Oliver P.
• Other Authors: Bird Studies Canada, Canada Research Chairs, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Mitacs, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Polar Knowledge Canada
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2023
• Subjects: Arctic; Coats Island; Digges; Nunavut; Sea ice; thick-billed murre; Uria lomvia; uria
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.9923; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/ece3.9923

Abstract The degree to which individuals adjust foraging behavior in response to environmental variability can impact foraging success, leading to downstream impacts on fitness and population dynamics. We examined the foraging flexibility, average daily energy expenditure, and foraging success of an...