Oversummering juvenile and adult Semipalmated sandpipers in Perú gain enough survival to compensate for foregone breeding opportunity.
Eveling A TaveraGlenn E StaufferDavid B LankRonald C YdenbergPublished in: Movement ecology (2020)
Our results support the life history hypothesis that oversummering raises survival enough to compensate for the loss of a breeding opportunity. Greater migration distance lowers survival and increases the probability of oversummering.
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