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Personality-specific carry-over effects on breeding
Carry-over effects describe the phenomenon whereby an animal's previous conditions influence its subsequent performance. Carry-over effects are unlikely to affect individuals uniformly, but the factors modulating their strength are poorly known. Variation in the strength of carry-over effects m...
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The Royal Society
2020
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7739942/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33290675 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2020.2381 |
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author | Harris, Stephanie M. Descamps, Sébastien Sneddon, Lynne U. Cairo, Milena Bertrand, Philip Patrick, Samantha C. |
author_facet | Harris, Stephanie M. Descamps, Sébastien Sneddon, Lynne U. Cairo, Milena Bertrand, Philip Patrick, Samantha C. |
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description | Carry-over effects describe the phenomenon whereby an animal's previous conditions influence its subsequent performance. Carry-over effects are unlikely to affect individuals uniformly, but the factors modulating their strength are poorly known. Variation in the strength of carry-over effects may reflect individual differences in pace-of-life: slow-paced, shyly behaved individuals are thought to favour an allocation to self-maintenance over current reproduction, compared to their fast-paced, boldly behaved conspecifics (the pace-of-life syndrome hypothesis). Therefore, detectable carry-over effects on breeding should be weaker in bolder individuals, as they should maintain an allocation to reproduction irrespective of previous conditions, while shy individuals should experience stronger carry-over effects. We tested this prediction in black-legged kittiwakes breeding in Svalbard. Using miniature biologging devices, we measured non-breeding activity of kittiwakes and monitored their subsequent breeding performance. We report a number of negative carry-over effects of non-breeding activity on breeding, which were generally stronger in shyer individuals: more active winters were followed by later breeding phenology and poorer breeding performance in shy birds, but these effects were weaker or undetected in bolder individuals. Our study quantifies individual variability in the strength of carry-over effects on breeding and provides a mechanism explaining widespread differences in individual reproductive success. |
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spelling | pubmed-77399422020-12-31 Personality-specific carry-over effects on breeding Harris, Stephanie M. Descamps, Sébastien Sneddon, Lynne U. Cairo, Milena Bertrand, Philip Patrick, Samantha C. Proc Biol Sci Behaviour Carry-over effects describe the phenomenon whereby an animal's previous conditions influence its subsequent performance. Carry-over effects are unlikely to affect individuals uniformly, but the factors modulating their strength are poorly known. Variation in the strength of carry-over effects may reflect individual differences in pace-of-life: slow-paced, shyly behaved individuals are thought to favour an allocation to self-maintenance over current reproduction, compared to their fast-paced, boldly behaved conspecifics (the pace-of-life syndrome hypothesis). Therefore, detectable carry-over effects on breeding should be weaker in bolder individuals, as they should maintain an allocation to reproduction irrespective of previous conditions, while shy individuals should experience stronger carry-over effects. We tested this prediction in black-legged kittiwakes breeding in Svalbard. Using miniature biologging devices, we measured non-breeding activity of kittiwakes and monitored their subsequent breeding performance. We report a number of negative carry-over effects of non-breeding activity on breeding, which were generally stronger in shyer individuals: more active winters were followed by later breeding phenology and poorer breeding performance in shy birds, but these effects were weaker or undetected in bolder individuals. Our study quantifies individual variability in the strength of carry-over effects on breeding and provides a mechanism explaining widespread differences in individual reproductive success. The Royal Society 2020-12-09 2020-12-09 /pmc/articles/PMC7739942/ /pubmed/33290675 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2020.2381 Text en © 2020 The Authors. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Behaviour Harris, Stephanie M. Descamps, Sébastien Sneddon, Lynne U. Cairo, Milena Bertrand, Philip Patrick, Samantha C. Personality-specific carry-over effects on breeding |
title | Personality-specific carry-over effects on breeding |
title_full | Personality-specific carry-over effects on breeding |
title_fullStr | Personality-specific carry-over effects on breeding |
title_full_unstemmed | Personality-specific carry-over effects on breeding |
title_short | Personality-specific carry-over effects on breeding |
title_sort | personality-specific carry-over effects on breeding |
topic | Behaviour |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7739942/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33290675 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2020.2381 |
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