Extreme weather affects Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus tundrius) breeding success in South Greenland
Abstract In order to better understand the potential effects of climate change on the Peregrine Falcon, we investigated the relationship between extreme weather events and Peregrines’ breeding success in South Greenland. We defined three variables – number of days with extremely low temperatures, ex...
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crdegruyter:10.1515/orhu-2018-0014 2023-05-15T15:09:10+02:00 Extreme weather affects Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus tundrius) breeding success in South Greenland Carlzon, Linnéa Karlsson, Amanda Falk, Knud Liess, Antonia Møller, Søren 2018 http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/orhu-2018-0014 https://content.sciendo.com/view/journals/orhu/26/2/article-p38.xml https://www.sciendo.com/article/10.1515/orhu-2018-0014 en eng Walter de Gruyter GmbH http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 CC-BY-NC-ND Ornis Hungarica volume 26, issue 2, page 38-50 ISSN 2061-9588 Animal Science and Zoology Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics journal-article 2018 crdegruyter https://doi.org/10.1515/orhu-2018-0014 2022-06-16T13:41:31Z Abstract In order to better understand the potential effects of climate change on the Peregrine Falcon, we investigated the relationship between extreme weather events and Peregrines’ breeding success in South Greenland. We defined three variables – number of days with extremely low temperatures, extreme precipitation, consecutive rainy days – and an additive variable, total days with extreme weather, and tested their relationship with Peregrines’ breeding success (measured as young per site and nest success) over a 33 year study period. Breeding success was negatively influenced by the number of days with extreme weather and extremely low temperature. The strongest relationship found was total days with extreme weather in the entire breeding season, which explained 22% and 27% of the variation in nest success and young per site, respectively. The number of days with extreme weather in our study related to fluctuations in the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO). Thus, with a strengthening of the NAO, linked to climate change, more extreme weather may occur in the Arctic and induce increased variation in Peregrines’ breeding success. Our data did not allow us to pinpoint when in the breeding cycle inclement weather was particularly harmful, and we recommend finer-scale research (e.g. automated nest cameras) to better monitor the species-specific effects of rapidly changing climate. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Climate change Falco peregrinus Greenland North Atlantic North Atlantic oscillation peregrine falcon De Gruyter (via Crossref) Arctic Greenland Ornis Hungarica 26 2 38 50 |
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Abstract In order to better understand the potential effects of climate change on the Peregrine Falcon, we investigated the relationship between extreme weather events and Peregrines’ breeding success in South Greenland. We defined three variables – number of days with extremely low temperatures, extreme precipitation, consecutive rainy days – and an additive variable, total days with extreme weather, and tested their relationship with Peregrines’ breeding success (measured as young per site and nest success) over a 33 year study period. Breeding success was negatively influenced by the number of days with extreme weather and extremely low temperature. The strongest relationship found was total days with extreme weather in the entire breeding season, which explained 22% and 27% of the variation in nest success and young per site, respectively. The number of days with extreme weather in our study related to fluctuations in the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO). Thus, with a strengthening of the NAO, linked to climate change, more extreme weather may occur in the Arctic and induce increased variation in Peregrines’ breeding success. Our data did not allow us to pinpoint when in the breeding cycle inclement weather was particularly harmful, and we recommend finer-scale research (e.g. automated nest cameras) to better monitor the species-specific effects of rapidly changing climate. |
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Extreme weather affects Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus tundrius) breeding success in South Greenland |
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Extreme weather affects Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus tundrius) breeding success in South Greenland |
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Extreme weather affects Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus tundrius) breeding success in South Greenland |
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Extreme weather affects Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus tundrius) breeding success in South Greenland |
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Extreme weather affects Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus tundrius) breeding success in South Greenland |
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