Favorable spring conditions can buffer the impact of winter carryover effects on a key breeding decision in an Arctic-breeding seabird

Agriculture & Biology

• seabirds 98%
• Arctic region 91%
• buffers 70%
• winter 57%
• breeding 52%
• corticosterone 17%
• Canada 14%
• temperature 14%
• dates (fruit) 13%
• foraging 13%
• Nunavut 13%
• Somateria mollissima 12%
• Newfoundland and Labrador 11%
• Greenland 11%
• path analysis 10%
• birds 10%
• claws 10%
• stable isotopes 9%
• body condition 8%
• hens 8%
• life history 7%
• carbon 5%
• environmental factors 5%
• energy 5%
• organisms 5%
• sampling 3%

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• seabird 100%
• breeding 86%
• decision 55%
• body mass 54%
• winter 53%
• arrival date 32%
• effect 20%
• bird 16%
• body condition 13%
• path analysis 12%
• breeding population 12%
• temperature 10%
• fitness 9%
• life history 9%
• carbon isotope 9%
• stable isotope 8%
• environmental conditions 7%
• organism 6%
• energy 4%