For altricial young, fledging is an abrupt step into an unknown environment. Despite
increasing numbers of studies addressing the post‐fledging period, our current knowledge …

According to recent empirical studies, reproductive senescence, the decline in reproductive
success with increasing age, seems to be nearly ubiquitous in the wild. However, a clear …

Climate change is forecasted to generate a range of evolutionary changes and plastic
responses. One important aspect of avian responses to climate change is how weather …

Early survival is highly variable and strongly influences observed population growth rates in
most vertebrate populations. One of the major potential drivers of survival variation among …

Recent studies unravelled the effect of climate changes on populations through their impact
on functional traits and demographic rates in terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems, but such …

Phenotypic traits developed in one life‐history stage can carryover and affect survival in
subsequent stages. For songbirds, carryover effects from the pre‐to post‐fledging period …

Artificial light at night (ALAN), termed light pollution, is an increasingly important
anthropogenic environmental pressure on wildlife. Exposure to unnatural lighting …

Our understanding of demographic processes is mainly based on analyses of traits from the
adult component of populations. Early‐life demographic traits are poorly known mainly for …

Light pollution causes attraction and/or disorientation of seabirds, leading to mortality events
due to multiple threats. This is a poorly understood phenomenon, largely because of the …

It is widely accepted that recent increases in environmental temperature have had a causal
effect on changing life histories; however, much of the evidence for this is derived from long …