Use of amino acid isotope analysis to investigate capital versus income breeding strategies in migratory avian species ...

• Main Authors: Lübcker, Nico, Whiteman, John, Shipley, Oliver, Hobson, Keith, Newsome, Seth
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Dryad 2023
• Subjects: FOS Biological sciences; breeding strategy; compound-specific stable isotope analysis; egg production; Resource allocation; yolk; geese; capital-income breeder; Brant; Branta bernicla; Tundra; Alaska
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.xsj3tx9mg; https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.xsj3tx9mg

Income and capital breeding represent opposing ends of a continuum of reproductive strategies. Quantifying nutrient allocation to reproduction is challenging, but recent advances in compound-specific stable isotope analysis hold promise for tracing the source of individual compounds allocated to rep...