Temporal patterns of Deepwater Horizon impacts on the benthic infauna of the northern Gulf of Mexico continental slope

MG Reuscher, JG Baguley, N Conrad-Forrest… - PloS one, 2017‏ - journals.plos.org
The Deepwater Horizon oil spill occurred in spring and summer 2010 in the northern Gulf of
Mexico. Research cruises in 2010 (approximately 2–3 months after the well had been …

Why do parents produce small broods of offspring that have lower body mass, survival, and lifetime reproductive success? A case study in a long-lived bird

X Xu, Y Ye, E Briggs, C Wang, B Qing, Z Song… - Behavioral Ecology and …, 2023‏ - Springer
Numerous studies have examined the correlation between offspring quantity and quality,
and many have found that the most common brood size is often smaller than broods with the …

Incubation temperature as a constraint on clutch size evolution

SF Hope, SE DuRant, JJ Hallagan, ML Beck… - Functional …, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
Elucidating factors that limit the number of offspring produced is fundamental to
understanding life‐history evolution. Here, we examine the hypothesis that parental ability to …

Brood size affects future reproduction in a long-lived bird with precocial young

AG Leach, JS Sedinger, TV Riecke… - The American …, 2019‏ - journals.uchicago.edu
Estimation of trade-offs between current reproduction and future survival and fecundity of
long-lived vertebrates is essential to understanding factors that shape optimal reproductive …

Incubation capacity contributes to constraints on maximal clutch size in Brent Geese Branta bernicla nigricans

AG Leach, AW Van Dellen, TV Riecke, JS Sedinger - Ibis, 2017‏ - Wiley Online Library
Lack () proposed that clutch size in species with precocial young was determined by
nutrients available to females at the time of egg formation; since then others have suggested …

Long‐term research and hierarchical models reveal consistent fitness costs of being the last egg in a clutch

CR Acevedo, TV Riecke, AG Leach… - Journal of Animal …, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
Maintenance of phenotypic heterogeneity in the face of strong selection is an important
component of evolutionary ecology, as are the consequences of such heterogeneity …

Individual heterogeneity in fitness in a long‐lived herbivore

MG Lohman, TV Riecke, PJ Williams… - Ecology and …, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
Heterogeneity in the intrinsic quality and nutritional condition of individuals affects
reproductive success and consequently fitness. Black brant (Branta bernicla nigricans) are …

Condition dependent strategies of egg size variation in the Common Eider Somateria mollissima

TK Christensen, TJS Balsby - Plos one, 2020‏ - journals.plos.org
We analysed intraclutch egg-size variation over the laying sequence in relation to clutch
size, and the relation between clutch size and female body condition, in the Common Eider …

Early life conditions and immune defense in nestling Swainson's Hawks

CR Vennum, CJ Downs, JP Hayes… - Physiological and …, 2019‏ - journals.uchicago.edu
The quality of perinatal conditions directly influences the physical and immunological
development of nestlings, yet it is inherently variable across space and time. Long-term …

Hatch date influences pre‐fledging survival of temperate‐nesting Canada geese

A Fontaine, ET Reed, J Rodrigue, JF Giroux - Wildlife Biology, 2018‏ - Wiley Online Library
Among the numerous demographic parameters that influence population size, unbiased
estimates of pre‐fledging survival remain difficult to obtain for precocial birds. In this study …