Adjustment of pre-moult foraging strategies in Macaroni Penguins Eudyptes chrysolophus according to locality, sex and breeding status
International audience The annual moult creates the highest physiological stress during a penguin's breedingcycleand is preceded by a period of hyperphagia at sea. Although crucial to individual survival, foraging strategies before moult have been little investigated in keystone marine consumer...
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ftunivrochelle:oai:HAL:hal-00945430v1 2024-02-11T10:03:35+01:00 Adjustment of pre-moult foraging strategies in Macaroni Penguins Eudyptes chrysolophus according to locality, sex and breeding status Thiebot, J. B. Cherel, Yves Acqueberge, M. Prudor, Aurélien Trathan, P. N. Bost, Charles-André Centre d'Études Biologiques de Chizé - UMR 7372 (CEBC) Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-La Rochelle Université (ULR)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) British Antarctic Survey (BAS) Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) 2014 https://hal.science/hal-00945430 https://doi.org/10.1111/ibi.12151 en eng HAL CCSD Wiley info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1111/ibi.12151 hal-00945430 https://hal.science/hal-00945430 doi:10.1111/ibi.12151 ISSN: 0019-1019 EISSN: 1474-919X Ibis https://hal.science/hal-00945430 Ibis, 2014, 156, pp.511-522. ⟨10.1111/ibi.12151⟩ Keywords: Crested Penguins light-based geolocation marine habitat marine resources nonbreeding Southern Ocean specialization stable isotopes [SDE]Environmental Sciences info:eu-repo/semantics/article Journal articles 2014 ftunivrochelle https://doi.org/10.1111/ibi.12151 2024-01-23T23:33:45Z International audience The annual moult creates the highest physiological stress during a penguin's breedingcycleand is preceded by a period of hyperphagia at sea. Although crucial to individual survival, foraging strategies before moult have been little investigated in keystone marine consumers in the Southern Ocean. The Macaroni Penguin Eudyptes chrysolophus demonstrates how individuals may adjust their foraging strategies during this period in line with constraints such as potential intraspecific competition between localities, foraging ability between dimorphic sexes and timing at sea between breeding and non-breeding population components. We recorded pre-moult behaviour at sea for 22 Macaroni Penguins from Crozet and Kerguelen Islands (southern Indian Ocean) during 2009 and 2011, using light-based geolocation and stable isotope analysis. Penguins were distributed in population-specific oceanic areas with similar surface temperatures (3.5 °C) south of the archipelagos, where they foraged at comparable trophic levels based on stable isotopes of their blood. Bayesian 'broken stick' modelling with concurrent analysis of seawater temperature records from the animal-borne devices showed that within each population, females remained 6 days longer than males in the colder waters before heading back towards their colonies. Finally, 17 other non-breeding individuals that moulted earlier had a higher mean blood d15N value than did post-breeding birds, meaning that early moulters probably fed more on fish than did late moulters. Our findings of such adjustments in foraging strategies developed across locality, sex and breeding status help understanding of the species' contrasted pre-moult biology across its range and its ecology in the non-breeding period. Article in Journal/Newspaper Eudyptes chrysolophus Kerguelen Islands Macaroni penguin Southern Ocean HAL - Université de La Rochelle Southern Ocean Kerguelen Kerguelen Islands Indian Ibis 156 3 511 522 |
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Keywords: Crested Penguins light-based geolocation marine habitat marine resources nonbreeding Southern Ocean specialization stable isotopes [SDE]Environmental Sciences Thiebot, J. B. Cherel, Yves Acqueberge, M. Prudor, Aurélien Trathan, P. N. Bost, Charles-André Adjustment of pre-moult foraging strategies in Macaroni Penguins Eudyptes chrysolophus according to locality, sex and breeding status |
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Keywords: Crested Penguins light-based geolocation marine habitat marine resources nonbreeding Southern Ocean specialization stable isotopes [SDE]Environmental Sciences |
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International audience The annual moult creates the highest physiological stress during a penguin's breedingcycleand is preceded by a period of hyperphagia at sea. Although crucial to individual survival, foraging strategies before moult have been little investigated in keystone marine consumers in the Southern Ocean. The Macaroni Penguin Eudyptes chrysolophus demonstrates how individuals may adjust their foraging strategies during this period in line with constraints such as potential intraspecific competition between localities, foraging ability between dimorphic sexes and timing at sea between breeding and non-breeding population components. We recorded pre-moult behaviour at sea for 22 Macaroni Penguins from Crozet and Kerguelen Islands (southern Indian Ocean) during 2009 and 2011, using light-based geolocation and stable isotope analysis. Penguins were distributed in population-specific oceanic areas with similar surface temperatures (3.5 °C) south of the archipelagos, where they foraged at comparable trophic levels based on stable isotopes of their blood. Bayesian 'broken stick' modelling with concurrent analysis of seawater temperature records from the animal-borne devices showed that within each population, females remained 6 days longer than males in the colder waters before heading back towards their colonies. Finally, 17 other non-breeding individuals that moulted earlier had a higher mean blood d15N value than did post-breeding birds, meaning that early moulters probably fed more on fish than did late moulters. Our findings of such adjustments in foraging strategies developed across locality, sex and breeding status help understanding of the species' contrasted pre-moult biology across its range and its ecology in the non-breeding period. |
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Centre d'Études Biologiques de Chizé - UMR 7372 (CEBC) Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-La Rochelle Université (ULR)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) British Antarctic Survey (BAS) Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) |
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Thiebot, J. B. Cherel, Yves Acqueberge, M. Prudor, Aurélien Trathan, P. N. Bost, Charles-André |
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Thiebot, J. B. Cherel, Yves Acqueberge, M. Prudor, Aurélien Trathan, P. N. Bost, Charles-André |
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Adjustment of pre-moult foraging strategies in Macaroni Penguins Eudyptes chrysolophus according to locality, sex and breeding status |
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Adjustment of pre-moult foraging strategies in Macaroni Penguins Eudyptes chrysolophus according to locality, sex and breeding status |
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Adjustment of pre-moult foraging strategies in Macaroni Penguins Eudyptes chrysolophus according to locality, sex and breeding status |
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Adjustment of pre-moult foraging strategies in Macaroni Penguins Eudyptes chrysolophus according to locality, sex and breeding status |
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Adjustment of pre-moult foraging strategies in Macaroni Penguins Eudyptes chrysolophus according to locality, sex and breeding status |
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adjustment of pre-moult foraging strategies in macaroni penguins eudyptes chrysolophus according to locality, sex and breeding status |
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Eudyptes chrysolophus Kerguelen Islands Macaroni penguin Southern Ocean |
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ISSN: 0019-1019 EISSN: 1474-919X Ibis https://hal.science/hal-00945430 Ibis, 2014, 156, pp.511-522. ⟨10.1111/ibi.12151⟩ |
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