Favorable spring conditions can buffer the impact of winter carryover effects on a key breeding decision in an Arctic-breeding seabird

• Published in: Ecology and Evolution
• Main Authors: Steenweg, Rolanda J., Crossin, Glenn T., Hennin, Holly L., Gilchrist, H. Grant, Love, Oliver P.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Scholarship at UWindsor 2022
• Subjects: common eider; corticosterone; foraging; migration; reproduction; stable isotopes; temperature; trade-offs; Arctic; Nunavut; Canada; Greenland; Nuuk; East Bay; Common Eider; Disko Bay; Newfoundland; Somateria mollissima
• Online Access: https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/ibiopub/11; https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.8588

The availability and investment of energy among successive life-history stages is a key feature of carryover effects. In migratory organisms, examining how both winter and spring experiences carryover to affect breeding activity is difficult due to the challenges in tracking individuals through thes...