Contrasting effects of climate and population density over time and life stages in a long-lived seabird.

ABSTRACT: Although population responses to environmental variability have been extensively studied for many organisms, few studies have considered early-life stages owing to the inherent difficulties in tracking the fate of young individuals. However, young individuals are expected to be more sensitive to environmental stochasticity owing to their inexperience and lower competitive abilities. Thus, they are keys to understand demographic responses of an age-structured population to environmental variability.In this study, we used capture-recapture modelling, based on a 49 year-long individual-based longitudinal monitoring dataset, to investigate climatic and population density effects on immature demographic parameters in a long-lived seabird, the wandering albatross.We provide evidence that climate

SUBMITTER: Fay R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5518763 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature