ArticleOecologia2023
Active breeding seabirds prospect alternative breeding colonies.
Article in Oecologia, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Avian influenza amplified age-related mortality in a long-lived seabird.Nature communications · 2026Article
- How Prospecting for Informed Dispersal Shapes Biodiversity Patterns in a Metacommunity.Ecology and evolution · 2026Article
- High annual-cycle repeatability suggests low flexibility to environmental changes in a near-threatened migratory shorebird.Communications biology · 2026Article
- Social cues from neighboring patches influence patch dynamics in a spatially structured population of a colonial bird.Ecology · 2026Article
- Past Colony Connectivity of a Declining Seabird Derived From Host-Parasite Genetic Data.Ecology and evolution · 2026Article
- Induced breeding failure alters movements, migratory phenology, and opportunities for pathogen spread in an urban gull population.Movement ecology · 2025Article
- High genetic diversity yet weak population genetic structure in European common terns.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- HPAIV outbreak triggers short-term colony connectivity in a seabird metapopulation.Scientific reports · 2024Article
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Abstract
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.
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