Effects of geolocators on hatching success, return rates, breeding movements, and change in body mass in 16 species of Arctic-breeding shorebirds.
BACKGROUND: Geolocators are useful for tracking movements of long-distance migrants, but potential negative effects on birds have not been well studied. We tested for effects of geolocators (0.8-2.0 g total, representing 0.1-3.9 % of mean body mass) on 16 species of migratory shorebirds, including f...
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Breeding success Geologger Global location sensor (GLS) Research impacts Return rates Tracking methods Waders 0502 Environmental Science and Management 0602 Ecology Weiser EL Lanctot RB Brown SC Alves JA Battley PF Bentzen R Bêty J Bishop MA Boldenow M Bollache L Casler B Christie M Coleman JT Conklin JR English WB Gates HR Gilg O Giroux M-A Gosbell K Hassell C Helmericks J Johnson A Katrínardóttir B Koivula K Kwon E Lamarre J-F Lang J Lank DB Lecomte N Liebezeit J Loverti V McKinnon L Minton C Mizrahi D Nol E Pakanen V-M Perz J Porter R Rausch J Reneerkens J Rönkä N Saalfeld S Senner N Sittler B Smith PA Sowl K Taylor A Ward DH Yezerinac S Sandercock BK Effects of geolocators on hatching success, return rates, breeding movements, and change in body mass in 16 species of Arctic-breeding shorebirds. |
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BACKGROUND: Geolocators are useful for tracking movements of long-distance migrants, but potential negative effects on birds have not been well studied. We tested for effects of geolocators (0.8-2.0 g total, representing 0.1-3.9 % of mean body mass) on 16 species of migratory shorebirds, including five species with 2-4 subspecies each for a total of 23 study taxa. Study species spanned a range of body sizes (26-1091 g) and eight genera, and were tagged at 23 breeding and eight nonbreeding sites. We compared breeding performance and return rates of birds with geolocators to control groups while controlling for potential confounding variables. RESULTS: We detected negative effects of tags for three small-bodied species. Geolocators reduced annual return rates for two of 23 taxa: by 63 % for semipalmated sandpipers and by 43 % for the arcticola subspecies of dunlin. High resighting effort for geolocator birds could have masked additional negative effects. Geolocators were more likely to negatively affect return rates if the total mass of geolocators and color markers was 2.5-5.8 % of body mass than if tags were 0.3-2.3 % of body mass. Carrying a geolocator reduced nest success by 42 % for semipalmated sandpipers and tripled the probability of partial clutch failure in semipalmated and western sandpipers. Geolocators mounted perpendicular to the leg on a flag had stronger negative effects on nest success than geolocators mounted parallel to the leg on a band. However, parallel-band geolocators were more likely to reduce return rates and cause injuries to the leg. No effects of geolocators were found on breeding movements or changes in body mass. Among-site variation in geolocator effect size was high, suggesting that local factors were important. CONCLUSIONS: Negative effects of geolocators occurred only for three of the smallest species in our dataset, but were substantial when present. Future studies could mitigate impacts of tags by reducing protruding parts and minimizing use of additional markers. Investigators ... |
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Weiser EL Lanctot RB Brown SC Alves JA Battley PF Bentzen R Bêty J Bishop MA Boldenow M Bollache L Casler B Christie M Coleman JT Conklin JR English WB Gates HR Gilg O Giroux M-A Gosbell K Hassell C Helmericks J Johnson A Katrínardóttir B Koivula K Kwon E Lamarre J-F Lang J Lank DB Lecomte N Liebezeit J Loverti V McKinnon L Minton C Mizrahi D Nol E Pakanen V-M Perz J Porter R Rausch J Reneerkens J Rönkä N Saalfeld S Senner N Sittler B Smith PA Sowl K Taylor A Ward DH Yezerinac S Sandercock BK |
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Weiser EL Lanctot RB Brown SC Alves JA Battley PF Bentzen R Bêty J Bishop MA Boldenow M Bollache L Casler B Christie M Coleman JT Conklin JR English WB Gates HR Gilg O Giroux M-A Gosbell K Hassell C Helmericks J Johnson A Katrínardóttir B Koivula K Kwon E Lamarre J-F Lang J Lank DB Lecomte N Liebezeit J Loverti V McKinnon L Minton C Mizrahi D Nol E Pakanen V-M Perz J Porter R Rausch J Reneerkens J Rönkä N Saalfeld S Senner N Sittler B Smith PA Sowl K Taylor A Ward DH Yezerinac S Sandercock BK |
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Effects of geolocators on hatching success, return rates, breeding movements, and change in body mass in 16 species of Arctic-breeding shorebirds. |
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Effects of geolocators on hatching success, return rates, breeding movements, and change in body mass in 16 species of Arctic-breeding shorebirds. |
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Effects of geolocators on hatching success, return rates, breeding movements, and change in body mass in 16 species of Arctic-breeding shorebirds. |
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Effects of geolocators on hatching success, return rates, breeding movements, and change in body mass in 16 species of Arctic-breeding shorebirds. |
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Effects of geolocators on hatching success, return rates, breeding movements, and change in body mass in 16 species of Arctic-breeding shorebirds. |
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effects of geolocators on hatching success, return rates, breeding movements, and change in body mass in 16 species of arctic-breeding shorebirds. |
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ftmasseyuniv:oai:mro.massey.ac.nz:10179/16561 2023-10-01T03:54:22+02:00 Effects of geolocators on hatching success, return rates, breeding movements, and change in body mass in 16 species of Arctic-breeding shorebirds. Weiser EL Lanctot RB Brown SC Alves JA Battley PF Bentzen R Bêty J Bishop MA Boldenow M Bollache L Casler B Christie M Coleman JT Conklin JR English WB Gates HR Gilg O Giroux M-A Gosbell K Hassell C Helmericks J Johnson A Katrínardóttir B Koivula K Kwon E Lamarre J-F Lang J Lank DB Lecomte N Liebezeit J Loverti V McKinnon L Minton C Mizrahi D Nol E Pakanen V-M Perz J Porter R Rausch J Reneerkens J Rönkä N Saalfeld S Senner N Sittler B Smith PA Sowl K Taylor A Ward DH Yezerinac S Sandercock BK 2016 http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000381933100001&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=c5bb3b2499afac691c2e3c1a83ef6fef https://doi.org/10.1186/s40462-016-0077-6 unknown MOVEMENT ECOLOGY http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000381933100001&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=c5bb3b2499afac691c2e3c1a83ef6fef ARTN 12 MOVEMENT ECOLOGY, 2016, 4 2051-3933 doi:10.1186/s40462-016-0077-6 261327 Massey_Dark © 2016 Weiser et al. Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated Breeding success Geologger Global location sensor (GLS) Research impacts Return rates Tracking methods Waders 0502 Environmental Science and Management 0602 Ecology Journal article 2016 ftmasseyuniv https://doi.org/10.1186/s40462-016-0077-6 2023-09-05T17:24:35Z BACKGROUND: Geolocators are useful for tracking movements of long-distance migrants, but potential negative effects on birds have not been well studied. We tested for effects of geolocators (0.8-2.0 g total, representing 0.1-3.9 % of mean body mass) on 16 species of migratory shorebirds, including five species with 2-4 subspecies each for a total of 23 study taxa. Study species spanned a range of body sizes (26-1091 g) and eight genera, and were tagged at 23 breeding and eight nonbreeding sites. We compared breeding performance and return rates of birds with geolocators to control groups while controlling for potential confounding variables. RESULTS: We detected negative effects of tags for three small-bodied species. Geolocators reduced annual return rates for two of 23 taxa: by 63 % for semipalmated sandpipers and by 43 % for the arcticola subspecies of dunlin. High resighting effort for geolocator birds could have masked additional negative effects. Geolocators were more likely to negatively affect return rates if the total mass of geolocators and color markers was 2.5-5.8 % of body mass than if tags were 0.3-2.3 % of body mass. Carrying a geolocator reduced nest success by 42 % for semipalmated sandpipers and tripled the probability of partial clutch failure in semipalmated and western sandpipers. Geolocators mounted perpendicular to the leg on a flag had stronger negative effects on nest success than geolocators mounted parallel to the leg on a band. However, parallel-band geolocators were more likely to reduce return rates and cause injuries to the leg. No effects of geolocators were found on breeding movements or changes in body mass. Among-site variation in geolocator effect size was high, suggesting that local factors were important. CONCLUSIONS: Negative effects of geolocators occurred only for three of the smallest species in our dataset, but were substantial when present. Future studies could mitigate impacts of tags by reducing protruding parts and minimizing use of additional markers. Investigators ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Dunlin Massey University: Massey Research Online Arctic Movement Ecology 4 1 |