Ice-dependent southern fulmar

International audience The Southern Fulmar, Fulmarus glacialoides, is an ice-dependentseabird, and individuals forage near the ice edge. During an extremeunfavorable sea ice year (ESIC), foraging trips were greater in distanceand duration, adults brought less food to their chicks, which fledgedin th...

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Published in:Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America
Main Authors: Jenouvrier, Stephanie, Péron, Clara, Weimerskirch, Henri
Other Authors: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies Horbat (IMAS), University of Tasmania Hobart, Australia (UTAS), Centre d'Études Biologiques de Chizé - UMR 7372 (CEBC), Université de La Rochelle (ULR)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: HAL CCSD 2015
Subjects:
[SDE]Environmental Sciences
Fulmar
Sea ice
Online Access:https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01336427
https://doi.org/10.1890/0012-9623-96.4.664
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Summary:International audience The Southern Fulmar, Fulmarus glacialoides, is an ice-dependentseabird, and individuals forage near the ice edge. During an extremeunfavorable sea ice year (ESIC), foraging trips were greater in distanceand duration, adults brought less food to their chicks, which fledgedin the poorest body condition. During such ESICs, breeding successwas extremely low; hence the population growth rate was greatlyreduced. Some individuals coped better with ESICs, which tend toexacerbate individual differences in intrinsic quality. Finally, changes inthe frequency of ESIC have a strong impact on the persistence ofSouthern Fulmar populations.

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