Fasting is a component of many species' life history due to environmental factors or
behavioral patterns that limit access to food. Despite metabolic and physiological challenges …

Income and capital breeding describe two dichotomous breeding strategies that
characterise the allocation of resources to reproduction. Capital breeders utilise stored …

Many animals experience periods of food shortage in their natural environment. It has been
hypothesised that the metabolic responses of animals to naturally‐occurring periods of food …

Life-history strategies vary dramatically between the sexes, which may drive divergence in
sex-specific senescence and mortality rates. Telomeres are tandem nucleotide repeats that …

In the final stage of fasting, skeletal muscle mass and protein content drastically decrease
when the maintenance of efficient locomotor activity becomes crucial for animals to …

While migratory seabirds dominate ecotoxicological studies within the Arctic, there is limited
knowledge about exposure and potential effects from circulating legacy and emerging …

Exposure to unpredictable environmental stressors could influence animal health and
fitness by inducing oxidative stress, potentially through downstream effects of glucocorticoid …

Habitat characteristics determine the presence and distribution of trophic resources shaping
seabirds' behavioural responses which may result in physiological consequences. Such …

The cost of reproduction results in a life-history trade-off where investment in current
reproduction via costly parental care decreases subsequent fitness. Although this trade-off is …

In nature, animals often face periods without food caused by seasonal fluctuations and/or
prey scarcity. An organism's physiological response to imposed energetic limitations is …