Data from: Flexible response to short-term weather in a cold-adapted songbird
To improve survival during winter, temperate species use a variety of behavioural and physiological adaptations. Among songbirds, the maintenance of lipid reserves is a widely-used strategy to cope with the severity of winter; however, little is known regarding how multiple synchronously acting envi...
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ftdryad:oai:v1.datadryad.org:10255/dryad.205631 2023-05-15T18:01:34+02:00 Data from: Flexible response to short-term weather in a cold-adapted songbird Laplante, Marie-Pier McKinnon, Emily A. Love, Oliver P. Vézina, François 2019-01-29T19:09:23Z http://hdl.handle.net/10255/dryad.205631 https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.f7h4614 unknown doi:10.5061/dryad.f7h4614/1 doi:10.1111/jav.01766 doi:10.5061/dryad.f7h4614 Laplante M, McKinnon EA, Love OP, Vézina F (2019) Flexible response to short-term weather in a cold-adapted songbird. Journal of Avian Biology 50(2): e01766. http://hdl.handle.net/10255/dryad.205631 avian energetics snow bunting winter acclimatization Article 2019 ftdryad https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.f7h4614 https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.f7h4614/1 https://doi.org/10.1111/jav.01766 2020-01-01T16:22:52Z To improve survival during winter, temperate species use a variety of behavioural and physiological adaptations. Among songbirds, the maintenance of lipid reserves is a widely-used strategy to cope with the severity of winter; however, little is known regarding how multiple synchronously acting environmental mechanisms work together to drive these effects. In a context where temperate winter conditions are becoming more variable, it is important to widen our understanding regarding the flexible adaptations that may allow wintering species to adjust to projected climate change. Using a long-term dataset collected across multiple wintering populations (7 years; 8 locations), we analyzed the effects of daily variation in weather (e.g., temperature, snowfall) on the variation in energy reserves (i.e., fat stores) of wintering snow buntings (Plectrophenax nivalis). Our results support the prediction that birds carry more reserves to increase the safety margin against starvation when conditions are energy-demanding and access to food is unpredictable (i.e., colder, snowier conditions). Birds responded to daily changes in weather by increasing their reserves as conditions deteriorated, with maximal temperatures and snow depth being the most important predictors of fattening decisions. We also found that females consistently exhibited higher fat reserves than males relative to their body size, suggesting that differential physiological adaptations among sexes or social dominance may play an additional role in explaining variation in energy reserves across individuals in this species. Overall, our findings increase knowledge on phenotypic adjustments used by species wintering in temperate zones to match variation in their environment. Article in Journal/Newspaper Plectrophenax nivalis Snow Bunting Dryad Digital Repository (Duke University) |
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avian energetics snow bunting winter acclimatization Laplante, Marie-Pier McKinnon, Emily A. Love, Oliver P. Vézina, François Data from: Flexible response to short-term weather in a cold-adapted songbird |
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To improve survival during winter, temperate species use a variety of behavioural and physiological adaptations. Among songbirds, the maintenance of lipid reserves is a widely-used strategy to cope with the severity of winter; however, little is known regarding how multiple synchronously acting environmental mechanisms work together to drive these effects. In a context where temperate winter conditions are becoming more variable, it is important to widen our understanding regarding the flexible adaptations that may allow wintering species to adjust to projected climate change. Using a long-term dataset collected across multiple wintering populations (7 years; 8 locations), we analyzed the effects of daily variation in weather (e.g., temperature, snowfall) on the variation in energy reserves (i.e., fat stores) of wintering snow buntings (Plectrophenax nivalis). Our results support the prediction that birds carry more reserves to increase the safety margin against starvation when conditions are energy-demanding and access to food is unpredictable (i.e., colder, snowier conditions). Birds responded to daily changes in weather by increasing their reserves as conditions deteriorated, with maximal temperatures and snow depth being the most important predictors of fattening decisions. We also found that females consistently exhibited higher fat reserves than males relative to their body size, suggesting that differential physiological adaptations among sexes or social dominance may play an additional role in explaining variation in energy reserves across individuals in this species. Overall, our findings increase knowledge on phenotypic adjustments used by species wintering in temperate zones to match variation in their environment. |
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Laplante, Marie-Pier McKinnon, Emily A. Love, Oliver P. Vézina, François |
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Data from: Flexible response to short-term weather in a cold-adapted songbird |
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doi:10.5061/dryad.f7h4614/1 doi:10.1111/jav.01766 doi:10.5061/dryad.f7h4614 Laplante M, McKinnon EA, Love OP, Vézina F (2019) Flexible response to short-term weather in a cold-adapted songbird. Journal of Avian Biology 50(2): e01766. http://hdl.handle.net/10255/dryad.205631 |
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