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Food availability and population processes: severity of nutritional stress during reproduction predicts survival of long-lived seabirds by Kitaysky, Alexander S, Piatt, John F, Hatch, Scott A, Kitaiskaia, Evgenia V, Benowitz-Fredericks, Z. Morgan, Shultz, Michael T, Wingfield, John C

“…1. Life-history theory predicts a trade-off between costs of current reproduction and future survival of individuals. Studies of short-lived animals in general…”
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Prey Density and the Behavioral Flexibility of a Marine Predator: The Common Murre (Uria aalge) by Harding, Ann M. A., Piatt, John F., Schmutz, Joel A., Shultz, Michael T., Van Pelt, Thomas I., Kettle, Arthur B., Speckman, Suzann G.

“…Flexible time budgets allow individual animals to buffer the effects of variable food availability by allocating more time to foraging when food density…”
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Timing of breeding and reproductive performance in murres and kittiwakes reflect mismatched seasonal prey dynamics by Shultz, Michael T., Piatt, John F., Harding, Ann M. A., Kettle, Arthur B., Van Pelt, Thomas I.

“…Seabirds are thought to time breeding to match the seasonal peak of food availability with peak chick energetic demands, but warming ocean temperatures have…”
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Assessing the nutritional stress hypothesis: relative influence of diet quantity and quality on seabird productivity by Jodice, Patrick G. R., Roby, Daniel D., Turco, Kathy R., Suryan, Robert M., Irons, David B., Piatt, John F., Shultz, Michael T., Roseneau, David G., Kettle, Arthur B., Anthony, Jill A.

“…Food availability comprises a complex interaction of factors that integrates abundance, taxonomic composition, accessibility, and quality of the prey base. The…”
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The Telomere Hypothesis of Stress and Aging by Shultz, Michael T

“…Telomeres are repetitive sequences of DNA forming the ends of chromosomes in eukaryotic organisms and are the focus of human aging studies. Cells accumulate…”
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Thick-billed murres use different diving behaviors in mixed and stratified waters by Takahashi, Akinori, Matsumoto, Kei, Hunt, George L., Shultz, Michael T., Kitaysky, Alexander S., Sato, Katsufumi, Iida, Kohji, Watanuki, Yutaka

“…Linking diving and foraging behavior of small seabirds with the fine-scale characteristics of water masses has been challenging largely due to sampling…”
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Stress hormones suggest opposite trends of food availability for planktivorous and piscivorous seabirds in 2 years: The Marine Ecosystem of the Pribilof Domain, Southeastern Bering Sea by MORGAN BENOWITZ-FREDERICKS, Z, SHULTZ, Michael T, KITAYSKY, Alexander S

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Stress hormones suggest opposite trends of food availability for planktivorous and piscivorous seabirds in 2 years by Benowitz-Fredericks, Z Morgan, Shultz, Michael T., Kitaysky, Alexander S.

“…Apex predators can provide valuable information about effects of climate variability on trophodynamics in the Bering Sea. We used corticosterone (the primary…”
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Thick-billed murres use different diving behaviors in mixed and stratified waters: The Marine Ecosystem of the Pribilof Domain, Southeastern Bering Sea by TAKAHASHI, Akinori, MATSUMOTO, Kei, HUNT, George L, SHULTZ, Michael T, KITAYSKY, Alexander S, SATO, Katsufumi, IIDA, Kohji, WATANUKI, Yutaka

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Pre-Fledging Weight Recession in Pigeon Guillemots on Southeast Farallon Island, California by Shultz, Michael T., Sydeman, William J.

“…We examined pre-fledging weight recession in Pigeon Guillemot (Cepphus columba) chicks in relation to chick growth and variation in food availability from…”
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