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Arctic waders are not capital breeders

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  • Marcel Klaassen

    (Centre for Limnology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology)

  • Åke Lindström

    (Ecology Building, Lund University
    Netherlands Institute for Sea Research
    Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Studies, University of Groningen)

  • Hans Meltofte

    (National Environmental Research Institute)

  • Theunis Piersma

    (Netherlands Institute for Sea Research
    Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Studies, University of Groningen)

Abstract

Birds prepare their eggs from recently ingested nutrients ('income' breeders) or from body stores ('capital' breeders)1. As summers are short at Arctic latitudes, Arctic migrants have been presumed to bring nutrients for egg production from their previous habitats, so that they can start breeding immediately upon arrival1,2,3. But we show here that eggs laid by 10 different wader species from 12 localities in northeast Greenland and Arctic Canada are produced from nutrients originating from tundra habitats, as inferred from carbon stable-isotope ratios in eggs, natal down, and juvenile and adult feathers.

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  • Marcel Klaassen & Åke Lindström & Hans Meltofte & Theunis Piersma, 2001. "Arctic waders are not capital breeders," Nature, Nature, vol. 413(6858), pages 794-794, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:413:y:2001:i:6858:d:10.1038_35101654
    DOI: 10.1038/35101654
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