Sex differences in migration and demography of a wide-ranging seabird, the northern gannet

• Published in: Marine Ecology Progress Series
• Main Authors: Deakin, Zoe, Hamer, Keith C., Sherley, Richard B., Bearhop, Stuart, Bodey, Thomas W., Clark, Bethany L., Grecian, W. James, Gummery, Matt, Lane, Jude, Morgan, Greg, Morgan, Lisa, Phillips, Richard A., Wakefield, Ewan D., Votier, Stephen C.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Inter Research 2019
• Subjects: Grassholm; Northeast Atlantic
• Online Access: https://eprints.gla.ac.uk/209661/; https://eprints.gla.ac.uk/209661/1/209661.pdf

Marine vertebrates show a diversity of migration strategies, including sex differences. This may lead to differential demography, but the consequences of such between-sex variation are little understood. Here, we studied the migration of known-sex northern gannets Morus bassanus—a partial migrant wi...