Similarly, favourable environmental conditions in non-breeding areas have resulted in late arrival at the breeding sites and good environmental conditions during stopover in early arrival at the breeding sites [ 15, 16].
For this reason, we cannot predict how climate change and associated atmospheric changes will affect migrants' in-flight energy budgets and therefore variables such as stopover frequency and arrival date on the breeding or wintering grounds [14], [18].
Second, individual condition on arrival at a stopover site might be co-determined by the quality of preceding sites, which affects their requirements at the present site (carry-over effects, see [ 51]).
Asked if the $55m cost of the deal amounted to a waste of taxpayers' money and an expensive stopover for Australia's rejected boat arrivals, Dutton said the government was determined to crush people-smuggling operations and stop people drowning at sea. "We have been very clear about the fact if you come to Australia by boat you will never settle here," he said.
Altering the energy budgets of migrants may affect the location of and need for stopover sites as well as change arrival times and advance or delay the onset of breeding in some species [7], [18], [25].
Namely, a delayed departure from one site may lead to delayed departures from all sites en route (strengthened by the fact that food stocks are largely depleted by the first birds using a stopover site [20]), thereby possibly delaying arrival on their Arctic breeding grounds.
All other migration events such as arrival or departure from stopover sites were not related to any of the local phenology measures we tested.
The arrival and departure dates for the stopover sites and wintering areas were then determined from the positioning data.
Furthermore, we found that arrival at the breeding sites was related to stopover duration, i.e. individuals that stayed shorter at stopover sites also arrived earlier at their breeding sites, regardless of total migration duration.
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