The migration pattern of a monogamous shorebird challenges existing hypotheses explaining the evolution of differential migration ...
Differential migration by sex, where one sex migrates further than the other, occurs in many bird species. How this pattern evolves is however little understood. The first aim of this study was to investigate the extent of differential migration in the common ringed plover Charadrius hiaticula, bree...
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Dryad
2019
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| Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.jdfn2z379 https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.jdfn2z379 |
| Summary: | Differential migration by sex, where one sex migrates further than the other, occurs in many bird species. How this pattern evolves is however little understood. The first aim of this study was to investigate the extent of differential migration in the common ringed plover Charadrius hiaticula, breeding in southeast Sweden, and test three main hypotheses (the social dominance, body size and arrival time hypothesis) regarding the evolution of differential migration. Geolocators were used to derive spatiotemporal data and morphometrics were collected from the studied population. Males migrated 800 km farther compared to females, were marginally larger and there was no statistical difference in spring arrival between the sexes. In contrast to other studies none of the previously proposed hypotheses could account for the observed pattern. An additional finding was that both sexes arrive up to 1.5 months before egg laying, but males initiate territorial behaviour upon arrival. Based on these observations we ... : This data was used to compare migratory behaviour between males and females common ringed plover Charadrisu hiaticula breeding in Ottenby, southeast Sweden, and to test hypotheses regarding evolution of differential migration. Data on migratory behavior was collected with light level geolocators. Parameters such as departure and arrival days, and migration distance were derived using R programme GeoLight (version 2.0.1). Data on morphology (wing length, total head length [bill + head] and tarsus length) was collected within the studied population. The data were further analyzed for sex differences in R (version 3.3.2.) ... |
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