Higher rates of prebreeding condition gain positively impacts clutch size: A mechanistic test of the condition-dependent individual optimization model

• Published in: Functional Ecology
• Main Authors: Hennin, Holly L., Dey, Cody J., Bêty, Joël, Gilchrist, H. Grant, Legagneux, Pierre, Williams, Tony D., Love, Oliver P.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Scholarship at UWindsor 2018
• Subjects: clutch size; common eider; condition gain; fattening rate; individual optimization; laying date; path analysis; triglyceride; Biochemistry; Biophysics; and Structural Biology; Biodiversity; Biology; Life Sciences; Marine Biology; Arctic; Rowe; Common Eider; Somateria mollissima
• Online Access: https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/glierpub/508; https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.13133; https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/context/glierpub/article/1510/viewcontent/hennin.pdf

A combination of timing of and body condition (i.e., mass) at arrival on the breeding grounds interact to influence the optimal combination of the timing of reproduction and clutch size in migratory species. This relationship has been formalized by Rowe et al. in a condition-dependent individual opt...