This blog post is provided by Emma J. Talis and tells the #StoryBehindthePaper for the paper ‘Variability, Skipped Breeding, and Heavy-tailed Dynamics in an Antarctic Seabird‘, which was recently published in Journal of Animal Ecology. The authors show that the presence of variable rates of skipped breeding in Adélie penguins can challenge our interpretation of abundance fluctuations and obscure relationships with key environmental drivers. Considered … Continue reading To Breed or Not to Breed: Skipped Breeding Can Obscure True Population Dynamics in Colonially Breeding Seabirds