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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Kralj, Jelena
• Ponchon, Aurore
• Oro, Daniel
• Amadesi, Barbara
• Arizaga, Juan
• Baccetti, Nicola
• Boulinier, Thierry
• Cecere, Jacopo G.
• Corcoran, Robin M.
• Corman, Anna-Marie
• Enners, Leonie
• Fleishman, Abram
• Garthe, Stefan
• Grémillet, David
• Harding, Ann
• Igual, José Manuel
• Jurinović, Luka
• Kubetzki, Ulrike
• Lyons, Donald E.
• Orben, Rachael
• Paredes, Rosana
• Pirrello, Simone
• Recorbet, Bernard
• Shaffer, Scott
• Schwemmer, Philipp
• Serra, Lorenzo
• Spelt, Anouk
• Tavecchia, Giacomo
• Tengeres, Jill
• Tome, Davorin
• Williamson, Cara
• Windsor, Shane
• Young, Hillary
• Zenatello, Marco
• Fijn, Ruben

Titel

Active breeding seabirds prospect alternative breeding colonies

Ist Teil von

• Oecologia, 2023-02, Vol.201 (2), p.341-354

Ort / Verlag

Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg

Erscheinungsjahr

2023

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Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Compared to other animal movements, prospecting by adult individuals for a future breeding site is commonly overlooked. Prospecting influences the decision of where to breed and has consequences on fitness and lifetime reproductive success. By analysing movements of 31 satellite- and GPS-tracked gull and tern populations belonging to 14 species in Europe and North America, we examined the occurrence and factors explaining prospecting by actively breeding birds. Prospecting in active breeders occurred in 85.7% of studied species, across 61.3% of sampled populations. Prospecting was more common in populations with frequent inter-annual changes of breeding sites and among females. These results contradict theoretical models which predict that prospecting is expected to evolve in relatively predictable and stable environments. More long-term tracking studies are needed to identify factors affecting patterns of prospecting in different environments and understand the consequences of prospecting on fitness at the individual and population level.