Age-Related Variation in Foraging Behaviour in the Wandering Albatross at South Georgia: No Evidence for Senescence

• Published in: PLOS ONE
• Main Authors: Froy, Hannah, Lewis, Sue, Catry, Paulo, Bishop, Charles M., Forster, Isaac P., Fukuda, Akira, Higuchi, Hiroyoshi, Phalan, Ben, Xavier, Jose C., Nussey, Daniel H., Phillips, Richard A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science 2015
• Subjects: Bird Island; Diomedea exulans; Wandering Albatross
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/509418/; https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/509418/1/Froy.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0116415

Age-related variation in demographic rates is now widely documented in wild vertebrate systems, and has significant consequences for population and evolutionary dynamics. However, the mechanisms underpinning such variation, particularly in later life, are less well understood. Foraging efficiency is...