Data from: Does water temperature affect the timing and duration of remigial moult in sea ducks? An experimental approach ...
Aquatic birds have high cost of thermoregulation, especially during the moulting period, yet the effect of water temperature on the moulting strategy of aquatic birds has rarely been studied. Our general hypothesis is that energy savings associated with lower thermoregulation costs would be allocate...
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ftdatacite:10.5061/dryad.1ct66 2024-02-04T09:59:39+01:00 Data from: Does water temperature affect the timing and duration of remigial moult in sea ducks? An experimental approach ... Viain, Anouck Guillemette, Magella 2017 https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.1ct66 https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.1ct66 en eng Dryad https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0155253 Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode cc0-1.0 Common eiders feather growth feather growth rate flightless duration moult Dataset dataset 2017 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.1ct6610.1371/journal.pone.0155253 2024-01-05T04:39:59Z Aquatic birds have high cost of thermoregulation, especially during the moulting period, yet the effect of water temperature on the moulting strategy of aquatic birds has rarely been studied. Our general hypothesis is that energy savings associated with lower thermoregulation costs would be allocated to moulting processes. We predicted that aquatic birds moulting in warm water would have a higher level of body reserves, a faster growth rate of feathers, and an earlier remigial moult onset compared with birds moulting in cold water. We used the common eider (Somateria mollissima dresseri), a large sea duck, as the model species. Captive individuals were experimentally exposed to warm (18 °C) and cold (8 °C) water treatments during a three year period with individuals swapped between treatments. We found a similar feather growth rate for the two water temperature treatments and in contrast to our predictions, eiders exposed to warm water had a lower body mass and showed a delayed onset of remigial moult of ... : Data_PONE-D-15-53646Data of body mass, feather growth rate and flightlessness duration of common eiders (Somateria mollissima dresseri) exposed to warm and cold water treatments. ... Dataset Common Eider Somateria mollissima DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) |
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Aquatic birds have high cost of thermoregulation, especially during the moulting period, yet the effect of water temperature on the moulting strategy of aquatic birds has rarely been studied. Our general hypothesis is that energy savings associated with lower thermoregulation costs would be allocated to moulting processes. We predicted that aquatic birds moulting in warm water would have a higher level of body reserves, a faster growth rate of feathers, and an earlier remigial moult onset compared with birds moulting in cold water. We used the common eider (Somateria mollissima dresseri), a large sea duck, as the model species. Captive individuals were experimentally exposed to warm (18 °C) and cold (8 °C) water treatments during a three year period with individuals swapped between treatments. We found a similar feather growth rate for the two water temperature treatments and in contrast to our predictions, eiders exposed to warm water had a lower body mass and showed a delayed onset of remigial moult of ... : Data_PONE-D-15-53646Data of body mass, feather growth rate and flightlessness duration of common eiders (Somateria mollissima dresseri) exposed to warm and cold water treatments. ... |
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Data from: Does water temperature affect the timing and duration of remigial moult in sea ducks? An experimental approach ... |
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Data from: Does water temperature affect the timing and duration of remigial moult in sea ducks? An experimental approach ... |
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data from: does water temperature affect the timing and duration of remigial moult in sea ducks? an experimental approach ... |
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