Age-specific reproductive success in a long-lived bird : do older parents resist stress better?

• Main Authors: Angelier, Frédéric, Moe, Borge, Weirmerskirch, Henri, Chastel, Olivier
• Other Authors: Centre d'études biologiques de Chizé (CEBC), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre for Biodiversity Dynamics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology Trondheim (NTNU), Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)-Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2007
• Subjects: age; corticosterone; Padogroma nivea; prolactin; snow petrel; stress response; psy; hist; Nivea; Pagadroma nivea; Snow Petrel; Snow Petrels
• Online Access: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00182302

International audience 1. In many vertebrates, reproductive performance increases with advancing age but mechanics involved in such a pattern remain poorly studied. One potential mechanism may be the hormonal stress reponse, wich shifts enhergy investment away from reproduction and redicrects it tow...