Early‐life variation in migration is subject to strong fluctuating survival selection in a partially migratory bird

• Published in: The Journal of animal ecology Vol. 93; no. 10; pp. 1567 - 1581
• Main Authors: Ugland, Cassandra R., Acker, Paul, Burthe, Sarah J., Fortuna, Rita, Gunn, Carrie, Haaland, Thomas R., Harris, Michael P., Morley, Timothy I., Newell, Mark A., Swann, Robert L., Wanless, Sarah, Daunt, Francis, Reid, Jane M.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.10.2024
• Subjects: adaptive phenotypic plasticity; Adaptive systems; animal ecology; Animal Migration; Animals; Bayes Theorem; Bayesian analysis; Bayesian theory; Bird migration; Bird populations; Charadriiformes - physiology; cohort; environmental factors; European shag Gulosus aristotelis; fluctuating selection; Gulosus aristotelis; juvenile survival; juveniles; life history; Life History Traits; mark-recapture studies; Mathematical models; migratory behavior; Migratory birds; multi‐state capture‐mark‐recapture; partial seasonal migration; phenotype; Phenotypic variations; Population Dynamics; Seasonal variations; Seasons; Selection, Genetic; Survival; viability selection; multi‐state capture‐mark‐recapture; fluctuating selection; European shag Gulosus aristotelis; adaptive phenotypic plasticity; cohort; juvenile survival; partial seasonal migration; viability selection

Population dynamic and eco‐evolutionary responses to environmental variation and change fundamentally depend on combinations of within‐ and among‐cohort variation in the phenotypic expression of key life‐history traits, and on corresponding variation in selection on those traits. Specifically, in pa...