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Provedor de dados:  ArchiMer
País:  France
Título:  Energetic adjustments in freely breeding-fasting king penguins: does colony density matter?
Autores:  Viblanc, Vincent A.
Saraux, Claire
Malosse, Nelly
Groscolas, Rene
Data:  2014-06
Ano:  2014
Palavras-chave:  Social density
Body temperature
Seabird
Fasting
Stress
Physical activity
Heart rate
Energy expenditure
Resumo:  1. For seabirds that forage at sea but breed while fasting on land, successful reproduction depends on the effective management of energy stores. Additionally, breeding often means aggregating in dense colonies where social stress may affect energy budgets. 2. Male king penguins (Aptenodytes patagonicus) fast for remarkably long periods (up to 1 center dot 5months) while courting and incubating ashore. Although their fasting capacities have been well investigated in captivity, we still know very little about the energetics of freely breeding birds. 3. We monitored heart rate (HR, a proxy to energy expenditure), body temperature and physical activity of male king penguins during their courtship and first incubation shift in a colony of some 24000 freely breeding pairs. Males were breeding either under low but increasing colony density (early breeders) or at high and stable density (late breeders). 4. In early breeders, daily mean and resting HR decreased during courtship but increased again 3days before egg laying and during incubation. In late breeders, HR remained stable throughout this same breeding period. Interestingly, the daily increase in resting HR we observed in early breeders was strongly associated with a marked increase in colony density over time. This finding remained significant even after controlling for climate effects. 5. In both early and late breeders, courtship and incubation were associated with a progressive decrease in physical activity, whereas core body temperature remained unchanged. 6. We discuss the roles of decreased physical activity and thermoregulatory strategies in sustaining the long courtship-incubation fast of male king penguins. We also draw attention to a potential role of conspecific density in affecting the energetics of breeding-fasting seabirds, that is, a potential energy cost to coloniality.
Tipo:  Text
Idioma:  Inglês
Identificador:  http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00193/30447/29090.pdf

DOI:10.1111/1365-2435.12212

http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00193/30447/
Editor:  Wiley-blackwell
Formato:  application/pdf
Fonte:  Functional Ecology (0269-8463) (Wiley-blackwell), 2014-06 , Vol. 28 , N. 3 , P. 621-631
Direitos:  2013 The Authors. Functional Ecology © 2013 British Ecological Society

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