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

Oecologia

Volumn 164, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 277-286

  Love, Oliver P ^a,b   Gilchrist, H Grant ^c   Descamps, Sébastien ^b,c,d   Semeniuk, Christina A D ^e   Bêty, Joël ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À RIMOUSKI   (Canada)

^c ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^d CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Climatic variability; Common eider (Somateria mollissima); Offspring survival; Temperature cue; Timing of breeding

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE; ANNUAL VARIATION; ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; BREEDING POPULATION; BREEDING SEASON; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE VARIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL CUE; FEMALE; FITNESS; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GROWTH RATE; HATCHING; ICE COVER; ICE FREE CORRIDOR; INDIVIDUAL VARIATION; LAYING DATE; SEABIRD; SELECTION; SURVIVAL;

ANIMAL; ARCTIC; ARTICLE; CANADA; COLD CLIMATE; DUCKS AND GEESE; FEMALE; ICE COVER; NESTING; OVIPARITY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION MIGRATION; TEMPERATURE;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; ANSERIFORMES; ARCTIC REGIONS; COLD CLIMATE; FEMALE; ICE COVER; NESTING BEHAVIOR; NUNAVUT; OVIPARITY; TEMPERATURE;

CANADA; EAST BAY; NUNAVUT; SOUTHAMPTON ISLAND;

AVES; SOMATERIA MOLLISSIMA;

EID: 77955768766     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-010-1678-1     Document Type: Article

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