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| Passuni, Giannina; Barbraud, Christophe; Chaigneau, Alexis; Demarcq, Herve; Ledesma, Jesus; Bertrand, Arnaud; Castillo, Ramiro; Perea, Angel; Mori, Julio; Viblanc, Vincent A.; Torres-maita, Jose; Bertrand, Sophie. |
| In fluctuating environments, matching breeding timing to periods of high resource availability is crucial for the fitness of many vertebrate species, and may have major consequences on population health. Yet, our understanding of the proximate environmental cues driving seasonal breeding is limited. This is particularly the case in marine ecosystems, where key environmental factors and prey abundance and availability are seldom quantified. The Northern Humboldt Current System (NHCS) is a highly productive, low-latitude ecosystem of moderate seasonality. In this ecosystem, three tropical seabird species (the Guanay Cormorant Phalacrocorax bougainvillii, the Peruvian Booby Sula variegata, and the Peruvian Pelican Pelecanus thagus) live in sympatry and prey... |
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Palavras-chave: Anchovy; Engraulis ringens; Guanay Cormorant; Northern Humboldt Current System; Occupancy model; Oceanographic variability; Pelecanus thagus; Peru; Peruvian Booby; Peruvian Pelican; Phalacrocorax bougainvillii; Prey abundance; Seasonal breeding; Sula variegata. |
| Ano: 2016 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00317/42844/74394.pdf |
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| Viblanc, Vincent A.; Schull, Quentin; Roth, Jeffrey D.; Rabdeau, Juliette; Saraux, Claire; Uhlrich, Pierre; Criscuolo, François; Dobson, F. Stephen. |
| 1.Oxidative stress has been proposed as a central causal mechanism underlying the life history trade-off between current and future reproduction and survival in wild animals. 2.Whereas mixed evidence suggests that maternal oxidative stress may act both as a constraint and a cost to reproduction, some studies have reported a lack of association between reproduction and maternal oxidative stress. 3.The oxidative shielding hypothesis offers an alternative explanation, suggesting that mothers may pre-emptively mitigate the oxidative costs of reproduction by increasing antioxidant defences prior to reproduction. 4.We tested the oxidative constraint, cost, and shielding hypotheses using a longitudinal field study of oxidative stress levels in a species that... |
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Palavras-chave: Antioxidant; Body condition; Cost of reproduction; Life history; Mammal; Mitochondria; Trade-off. |
| Ano: 2018 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00415/52679/53542.pdf |
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| Saraux, Claire; Chiaradia, Andre; Salton, Marcus; Dann, Peter; Viblanc, Vincent A.. |
| Most effects of environmental and climate variability on predator life history traits and population dynamics result from indirect effects mediated through the food chain. There is growing evidence that wind strength might affect seabirds while foraging at sea. Here, we investigated the effect of wind speed on the foraging performance of a flightless marine predator, the little penguin (Eudyptula minor). To this end, we used satellite-derived wind data collected over 11 breeding seasons during which the daily attendance and body mass changes of more than 200 penguins breeding at Phillip Island (Victoria, Australia) were recorded by an automated penguin monitoring system. Over 17 363 foraging trips, we found that wind speed had important effects on foraging... |
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Palavras-chave: Body condition; Chick rearing; Climate change vs. climate variability; Eudyptula minor; Extreme events; Seabird. |
| Ano: 2016 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00318/42964/42469.pdf |
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| Le Vaillant, Maryline; Viblanc, Vincent A.; Saraux, Claire; Le Bohec, Celine; Le Maho, Yvon; Kato, Akiko; Criscuolo, Francois; Ropert-coudert, Yan. |
| Growing evidence suggests that telomeres, non-coding DNA sequences that shorten with age and stress, are related in an undefined way to individual breeding performances and survival rates in several species. Short telomeres and elevated shortening rates are typically associated with life stress and low health. As such, telomeres could serve as an integrative proxy of individual quality, describing the overall biological state of an individual at a given age. Telomere length could be associated with the decline of an array of physiological traits in age-controlled individuals. Here, we investigated the links between individuals' relative telomere length, breeding performance and various physiological (body condition, natural antibody levels) and life... |
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Palavras-chave: Breeding performances; Long-lived seabird; Natural antibody level; Body condition. |
| Ano: 2015 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00302/41327/41093.pdf |
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| Bordier, Celia; Saraux, Claire; Viblanc, Vincent A.; Gachot-neveu, Helene; Beaugey, Magali; Le Maho, Yvon; Le Bohec, Céline. |
| As the number of breeding pairs depends on the adult sex ratio in a monogamous species with biparental care, investigating sex-ratio variability in natural populations is essential to understand population dynamics. Using 10 years of data (20002009) in a seasonally monogamous seabird, the king penguin (Aptenodytes patagonicus), we investigated the annual sex ratio at fledging, and the potential environmental causes for its variation. Over more than 4000 birds, the annual sex ratio at fledging was highly variable (ranging from 44.4% to 58.3% of males), and on average slightly biased towards males (51.6%). Yearly variation in sex-ratio bias was neither related to density within the colony, nor to global or local oceanographic conditions known to affect both... |
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| Ano: 2014 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00248/35916/34452.pdf |
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| Viblanc, Vincent A.; Bize, Pierre; Criscuolo, Francois; Le Vaillant, Maryline; Saraux, Claire; Pardonnet, Sylvia; Gineste, Benoit; Kauffmann, Marion; Prud'Homme, Onesime; Handrich, Yves; Massemin, Sylvie; Groscolas, Rene; Robin, Jean-patrice. |
| Body mass and body condition are often tightly linked to animal health and fitness in the wild and thus are key measures for ecophysiologists and behavioral ecologists. In some animals, such as large seabird species, obtaining indexes of structural size is relatively easy, whereas measuring body mass under specific field circumstances may be more of a challenge. Here, we suggest an alternative, easily measurable, and reliable surrogate of body mass in field studies, that is, body girth. Using 234 free-living king penguins (Aptenodytes patagonicus) at various stages of molt and breeding, we measured body girth under the flippers, body mass, and bill and flipper length. We found that body girth was strongly and positively related to body mass in both molting... |
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| Ano: 2012 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00098/20918/18590.pdf |
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| Stier, Antoine; Viblanc, Vincent A.; Massemin-challet, Sylvie; Handrich, Yves; Zahn, Sandrine; Rojas, Emilio R.; Saraux, Claire; Le Vaillant, Maryline; Prud'Homme, Onesime; Grosbellet, Edith; Robin, Jean-patrice; Bize, Pierre; Criscuolo, Francois. |
| 1. The exceptionally long (c. 11 months) growth period of king penguin chicks (Aptenodytes patagonicus) is interrupted by the Austral winter. As a consequence, penguin chicks born late in the breeding season have little time to build-up their energy reserves before the drastic energy bottleneck they experience during winter and face greater risks of mortality than early-born chicks. 2. Whereas it is well known that breeding adults alternate between early- and late-breeding attempts, little is known on the phenotype of early- and late-chicks, and on the potential existence of specific adaptive phenotypic responses in late-born individuals. 3. We investigated phenotypic differences between early- and late-chicks and tested their survival correlates both... |
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Palavras-chave: Early-life conditions; Phenotypic plasticity; Oxidative stress; Individual quality; Growth; Telomere; Corticosterone; Reproductive timing. |
| Ano: 2014 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00170/28175/32107.pdf |
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