Animals' abilities to fly long distances and dive to profound depths fascinate earthbound
researchers. Due to the difficulty of making direct measurements during flying and diving …

An authoritative overview of the biology of the Kittiwake, Rissa tridactyla. Returning to its
breeding sites in the spring after a winter spent far out at sea, the Kittiwake is a familiar sight …

For decades, studies have highlighted links between wind patterns and the behavior,
ecology, distribution, energetics and life history of seabirds. However, only relatively recently …

Many migratory vertebrates typically move between habitats with varying salinities during
the annual cycle. These organisms clearly exhibit a remarkable phenotypic flexibility in their …

A higher proportion of long‐lived animals die from senescence than short‐lived animals, yet
many long‐lived homeotherms show few signs of physiological ageing in the wild. This may …

The ability to store energy endogenously is an important ecological mechanism that allows
animals to buffer predictable and unpredictable variation in allostatic load. The secretion of …

Thyroid hormones affect in vitro metabolic intensity, increase basal metabolic rate (BMR) in
the lab, and are sometimes correlated with basal and/or resting metabolic rate (RMR) in a …

In Amazonian streams, damming caused by road construction changes the system's
hydrological dynamics and biological communities. We tested whether the degree of …

Energy stores are critical for successful breeding, and longitudinal studies require nonlethal
methods to measure energy stores (“body condition”). Nonlethal techniques for measuring …

The varying demands associated with egg incubation and chick-rearing are known to have a
corresponding effect on the foraging behavior of seabirds. We deployed data loggers on …