Personality-specific carry-over effects on breeding ...

• Main Authors: Harris, Steph, Harris, Stephanie M, Descamps, Sebastien, Sneddon, Lynne, Cairo, Milena, Bertrand, Philip, Patrick, Samantha
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Dryad 2020
• Subjects: carry-over effect; boldness; life-history trade-off; Pace-of-life syndromes; reversible state effects; annual cycle; Svalbard
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.g79cnp5nq; https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.g79cnp5nq

Carry-over effects describe the phenomenon whereby an animal’s previous conditions influence its subsequent performance. Carry-over effects are unlikely to affect individuals uniformly, but the factors modulating their strength are poorly known. Variation in the strength of carry-over effects may reflect individual differences in pace-of-life: slow-paced, shyly behaved individuals are thought to favour allocation to self-maintenance over current reproduction, compared to their fast-paced, boldly behaved conspecifics (the pace-of-life syndrome hypothesis). Therefore, detectable carry-over effects on breeding should be weaker in bolder individuals, as they should maintain allocation to reproduction irrespective of previous conditions, while shy individuals should experience stronger carry-over effects. We tested this prediction in black-legged kittiwakes breeding in Svalbard. Using miniature biologging devices, we measured non-breeding activity of kittiwakes, and monitored their subsequent breeding ... : ReadMe file is attached, containing a key to all the variables in the four CSV files ...