Individual Choices of Wintering Areas Drive Adult Survival Heterogeneity in a Long-Lived Seabird.

ABSTRACT: Seasonal migration has evolved as an adaptation for exploiting peaks of resource abundance and avoiding unfavourable climatic conditions. Differential migratory strategies and choices of wintering areas by long-distance migratory species may impose varying selective pressures and mortality risks with fitness consequences. Recently developed tracking technologies allow wintering movements of migratory species to be studied. However, these technologies typically involve a limited number of tracked individuals, which gives low statistical power for any robust estimate of survival probabilities. Additionally, when utilising geolocators, data become accessible only upon individual recapture, presenting a potential source of bias. We used multievent modelling to include information of 147 identi

SUBMITTER: Genovart M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11638144 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature