Data from: Phenotype-limited distributions: short-billed birds move away during times that prey bury deeply
In our seasonal world, animals face a variety of environmental conditions in the course of the year. To cope with such seasonality, animals may be phenotypically flexible, but some phenotypic traits are fixed. If fixed phenotypic traits are functionally linked to resource use, then animals should re...
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ftdans:oai:easy.dans.knaw.nl:easy-dataset:89516 2023-07-02T03:33:53+02:00 Data from: Phenotype-limited distributions: short-billed birds move away during times that prey bury deeply Duijns, Sjoerd van Gils, Jan A. Smart, Jennifer Piersma, Theunis 2015-05-19T17:11:31.000+02:00 http://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:nl:ui:13-rr-oicu https://easy.dans.knaw.nl/ui/datasets/id/easy-dataset:89516 unknown doi:10.5061/dryad.v51t0/3 doi:10.5061/dryad.v51t0/4 doi:10.5061/dryad.v51t0/1 doi:10.5061/dryad.v51t0/2 doi:10.1098/rsos.150073 PMID:26543585 http://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:nl:ui:13-rr-oicu doi:10.5061/dryad.v51t0 https://easy.dans.knaw.nl/ui/datasets/id/easy-dataset:89516 OPEN_ACCESS: The data are archived in Easy, they are accessible elsewhere through the DOI https://dans.knaw.nl/en/about/organisation-and-policy/legal-information/DANSLicence.pdf Life sciences medicine and health care 2015 ftdans https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.v51t0/310.5061/dryad.v51t0/410.5061/dryad.v51t0/110.5061/dryad.v51t0/210.1098/rsos.15007310.5061/dryad.v51t0 2023-06-13T12:32:52Z In our seasonal world, animals face a variety of environmental conditions in the course of the year. To cope with such seasonality, animals may be phenotypically flexible, but some phenotypic traits are fixed. If fixed phenotypic traits are functionally linked to resource use, then animals should redistribute in response to seasonally changing resources, leading to a ‘phenotype-limited’ distribution. Here, we examine this possibility for a shorebird, the bar-tailed godwit (Limosa lapponica; a long-billed and sexually dimorphic shorebird), that has to reach buried prey with a probing bill of fixed length. The main prey of female bar-tailed godwits is buried deeper in winter than in summer. Using sightings of individually marked females, we found that in winter only longer-billed individuals remained in the Dutch Wadden Sea, while the shorter-billed individuals moved away to an estuary with a more benign climate such as the Wash. Although longer-billed individuals have the widest range of options in winter and could therefore be selected for, counterselection may occur during the breeding season on the tundra, where surface-living prey may be captured more easily with shorter bills. Phenotype-limited distributions could be a widespread phenomenon and, when associated with assortative migration and mating, it may act as a precursor of phenotypic evolution. Other/Unknown Material Tundra Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS): EASY (KNAW - Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen) |
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In our seasonal world, animals face a variety of environmental conditions in the course of the year. To cope with such seasonality, animals may be phenotypically flexible, but some phenotypic traits are fixed. If fixed phenotypic traits are functionally linked to resource use, then animals should redistribute in response to seasonally changing resources, leading to a ‘phenotype-limited’ distribution. Here, we examine this possibility for a shorebird, the bar-tailed godwit (Limosa lapponica; a long-billed and sexually dimorphic shorebird), that has to reach buried prey with a probing bill of fixed length. The main prey of female bar-tailed godwits is buried deeper in winter than in summer. Using sightings of individually marked females, we found that in winter only longer-billed individuals remained in the Dutch Wadden Sea, while the shorter-billed individuals moved away to an estuary with a more benign climate such as the Wash. Although longer-billed individuals have the widest range of options in winter and could therefore be selected for, counterselection may occur during the breeding season on the tundra, where surface-living prey may be captured more easily with shorter bills. Phenotype-limited distributions could be a widespread phenomenon and, when associated with assortative migration and mating, it may act as a precursor of phenotypic evolution. |
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Duijns, Sjoerd van Gils, Jan A. Smart, Jennifer Piersma, Theunis |
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Data from: Phenotype-limited distributions: short-billed birds move away during times that prey bury deeply |
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data from: phenotype-limited distributions: short-billed birds move away during times that prey bury deeply |
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