Drivers and fitness consequences of dispersive migration in a pelagic seabird

Lay Summary Sex segregation, competition and differences in individual quality may drive dispersive migration in birds and affect their fitness. Atlantic puffins tracked for up to 6 years followed remarkably different migration routes, but individuals followed the same route every year. Although random dispersion and sex segregation could not explain the patterns observed, birds visiting the Mediterranean Sea foraged more and had a higher breeding success than birds remaining locally or visiting the Atlantic Ocean.

• Publication year

  2016

• Venue

  Behavioral Ecology

• Publication date

  2016-02-17

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1093/beheco/arw013PMID 27418752PMCID 4943109
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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