Pre-laying climatic cues can time reproduction to optimally match offspring hatching and ice conditions in an Arctic marine bird

• Published in: Oecologia
• Main Authors: Love, Oliver P., Gilchrist, H. Grant, Descamps, Sébastien, Semeniuk, Christina A.D., Bêty, Joël
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Scholarship at UWindsor 2010
• Subjects: Climatic variability; Common eider (Somateria mollissima); Offspring survival; Temperature cue; Timing of breeding; Integrative Biology; Arctic; Nunavut; East Bay; Climate change; Common Eider; Somateria mollissima
• Online Access: https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/ibiopub/105; https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-010-1678-1

Individuals breeding in seasonal environments are under strong selection to time reproduction to match offspring demand and the quality of the post-natal environment. Timing requires both the ability to accurately interpret the appropriate environmental cues, and the flexibility to respond to inter-...