Seasonal reproductive tactics: annual timing and the capital-to-income breeder continuum

CT Williams, M Klaassen… - … of the Royal …, 2017 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Tactics of resource use for reproduction are an important feature of life-history strategies. A
distinction is made between 'capital'breeders, which finance reproduction using stored …

Emerging themes in population consequences of disturbance models

KA Keen, RS Beltran, E Pirotta… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Assessing the non-lethal effects of disturbance from human activities is necessary for wildlife
conservation and management. However, linking short-term responses to long-term impacts …

A bioenergetics model to evaluate demographic consequences of disturbance in marine mammals applied to gray whales

S Villegas-Amtmann, LK Schwarz, JL Sumich… - …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
While sophisticated tools are used to monitor behavioral changes of large marine
vertebrates, determining whether these changes are meaningful for management and …

Protein feeding mediates sex pheromone biosynthesis in an insect

S Gui, B Yuval, T Engl, Y Lu, D Cheng - Elife, 2023 - elifesciences.org
Protein feeding is critical for male reproductive success in many insect species. However,
how protein affects the reproduction remains largely unknown. Using Bactrocera dorsalis as …

A dynamic state model of migratory behavior and physiology to assess the consequences of environmental variation and anthropogenic disturbance on marine …

E Pirotta, M Mangel, DP Costa, B Mate… - The American …, 2018 - journals.uchicago.edu
Integrating behavior and physiology is critical to formulating new hypotheses on the
evolution of animal life-history strategies. Migratory capital breeders acquire most of the …

Allometry of behavior and niche differentiation among congeneric African antelopes

JH Daskin, JA Becker, TR Kartzinel… - Ecological …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Size‐structured differences in resource use stabilize species coexistence in animal
communities, but what behavioral mechanisms underpin these niche differences? Behavior …

Range-wide comparison of gray whale body condition reveals contrasting sub-population health characteristics and vulnerability to environmental change

LG Torres, CN Bird, F Rodríguez-González… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Climate change is a global phenomenon, yet impacts on resource availability to predators
may be spatially and temporally diverse and asynchronous. As capital breeders, whales are …

Reproductive allocation in pulsed-resource environments: a comparative study in two populations of wild boar

M Gamelon, S Focardi, E Baubet, S Brandt, B Franzetti… - Oecologia, 2017 - Springer
Pulsed resources influence the demography and evolution of consumer populations and, by
cascading effect, the dynamics of the entire community. Mast seeding provides a case study …

Capital versus income breeding in a seasonal environment

J Sainmont, KH Andersen, Ø Varpe… - The American …, 2014 - journals.uchicago.edu
The allocation of resources between growth, storage, and reproduction is a key trade-off in
the life-history strategies of organisms. A central dichotomy is between capital breeders and …

Bio‐energetic modeling of medium‐sized cetaceans shows high sensitivity to disturbance in seasons of low resource supply

V Hin, J Harwood, AM de Roos - Ecological Applications, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding the full scope of human impact on wildlife populations requires a framework
to assess the population‐level repercussions of nonlethal disturbance. The Population …