Exploring individual quality: basal metabolic rate and reproductive performance in storm-petrels

• Published in: Behavioral Ecology
• Main Authors: Blackmer, Alexis L., Mauck, Robert A., Ackerman, Joshua T., Huntington, Charles E., Nevitt, Gabrielle A., Williams, Joseph B.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press 2005
• Subjects: Article; Canada; Kent Island; Oceanodroma leucorhoa
• Online Access: http://beheco.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/ari069v1; https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/ari069

Despite evidence that some individuals achieve both superior reproductive performance and high survivorship, the factors underlying variation in individual quality are not well understood. The compensation and increased-intake hypotheses predict that basal metabolic rate (BMR) influences reproductiv...