Moose (Alces alces) parturition dates, Sweden ...
In northern environments, the period of access to high-quality forage is limited, exerting strong selective pressure to optimize the timing of parturition. We analysed timing and variation in moose parturition dates of 555 females at 18 study sites across 12ᵒ of latitude (56-68ᵒ N, 1,350 km) in Swed...
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ftdatacite:10.5061/dryad.ghx3ffbkg 2024-02-04T09:52:30+01:00 Moose (Alces alces) parturition dates, Sweden ... Neumann, Wiebke Singh, Navinder J. Stenbacka, Fredrik Malmsten, Jonas Wallin, Kjell Ball, John P. Ericsson, Göran 2020 https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.ghx3ffbkg https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.ghx3ffbkg en eng Dryad Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode cc0-1.0 Dataset dataset 2020 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.ghx3ffbkg 2024-01-05T01:14:15Z In northern environments, the period of access to high-quality forage is limited, exerting strong selective pressure to optimize the timing of parturition. We analysed timing and variation in moose parturition dates of 555 females at 18 study sites across 12ᵒ of latitude (56-68ᵒ N, 1,350 km) in Sweden. We found evidence for a spatial match of parturition timing to vegetation onset, but no evidence that moose adjust parturition to vegetation onset in a given year. We found a breakpoint at 64ᵒ N. Despite adaptation across latitudes, temporal divergences occurred. Females <64 ᵒN calved after vegetation onset and females >64 ᵒN calved before. Here, parturition before vegetation onset might be a strategy to optimize forage utilization time with the very short growing season. Highly seasonal environments such as at higher latitudes may make it advantageous to adapt parturition towards long-term climatic patterns by matching the most favourable period. Given the direction of temporal divergence, our study ... : Includes data on moose calving dates across 12 degrees of latitude in Sweden. More details on data collection and methods can be found in the main doucment and supplementary material of the published article (RSBL-2020-0044, Biology Letters). ... Dataset Alces alces DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) |
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In northern environments, the period of access to high-quality forage is limited, exerting strong selective pressure to optimize the timing of parturition. We analysed timing and variation in moose parturition dates of 555 females at 18 study sites across 12ᵒ of latitude (56-68ᵒ N, 1,350 km) in Sweden. We found evidence for a spatial match of parturition timing to vegetation onset, but no evidence that moose adjust parturition to vegetation onset in a given year. We found a breakpoint at 64ᵒ N. Despite adaptation across latitudes, temporal divergences occurred. Females <64 ᵒN calved after vegetation onset and females >64 ᵒN calved before. Here, parturition before vegetation onset might be a strategy to optimize forage utilization time with the very short growing season. Highly seasonal environments such as at higher latitudes may make it advantageous to adapt parturition towards long-term climatic patterns by matching the most favourable period. Given the direction of temporal divergence, our study ... : Includes data on moose calving dates across 12 degrees of latitude in Sweden. More details on data collection and methods can be found in the main doucment and supplementary material of the published article (RSBL-2020-0044, Biology Letters). ... |
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Moose (Alces alces) parturition dates, Sweden ... |
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