Data from: Brood size affects future reproduction in a long-lived bird with precocial young

• Main Authors: Leach, Alan, Sedinger, James, Riecke, Thomas, Dellen, Amanda Van, Ward, David, Boyd, Sean
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Dryad 2018
• Subjects: Reproduction: investment; Demography; FOS: Sociology; Trade offs; Branta bernicla nigricans; Reproduction: costs; Life sciences; medicine and health care; Tutakoke River Brant Colony; Yukon-Kuskokwm Delta; Alaska; demo; envir; Brant; Yukon; Branta bernicla
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.96bk480

Estimation of trade-offs between current reproduction and future survival and fecundity of long-lived vertebrates is essential to understanding factors that shape optimal reproductive investment. Black brant geese (Branta bernicla nigricans) are able fledge more goslings, on average, when their broo...