Climate and Dispersal: Black-Winged Stilts Disperse Further in Dry Springs
Climate affects the abundance and distribution of many species of wildlife. Nevertheless, the potential effects of climate on dispersive behaviour remain unstudied. Here, I combine data from (i) a long-term Black-winged Stilt (Himantopus himantopus) monitoring program, (ii) a capture-recapture marki...
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ftpubmed:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:1891090 2023-05-15T17:32:30+02:00 Climate and Dispersal: Black-Winged Stilts Disperse Further in Dry Springs Figuerola, Jordi 2007-06-20 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1891090 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17579713 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0000539 en eng Public Library of Science http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1891090 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17579713 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0000539 Jordi Figuerola. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. CC-BY Research Article Text 2007 ftpubmed https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0000539 2013-08-31T22:01:19Z Climate affects the abundance and distribution of many species of wildlife. Nevertheless, the potential effects of climate on dispersive behaviour remain unstudied. Here, I combine data from (i) a long-term Black-winged Stilt (Himantopus himantopus) monitoring program, (ii) a capture-recapture marking program in Doñana, and (iii) reports from the Rare Birds Committee in the United Kingdom to analyse at different geographical scales the relationship between climate, survival, philopatry, and dispersive behaviour. Black-winged Stilt populations varied in size in consonance with changes in both the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) and local rainfall during the breeding season. Changes in population size are related to changes in philopatry and increases in dispersal beyond the traditional range of the species. The results indicate that climatic conditions influence the dispersive behaviour of individual birds, explaining rapid changes in the local population of this species breeding in unstable Mediterranean wetlands. Text North Atlantic North Atlantic oscillation PubMed Central (PMC) PLoS ONE 2 6 e539 |
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Climate affects the abundance and distribution of many species of wildlife. Nevertheless, the potential effects of climate on dispersive behaviour remain unstudied. Here, I combine data from (i) a long-term Black-winged Stilt (Himantopus himantopus) monitoring program, (ii) a capture-recapture marking program in Doñana, and (iii) reports from the Rare Birds Committee in the United Kingdom to analyse at different geographical scales the relationship between climate, survival, philopatry, and dispersive behaviour. Black-winged Stilt populations varied in size in consonance with changes in both the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) and local rainfall during the breeding season. Changes in population size are related to changes in philopatry and increases in dispersal beyond the traditional range of the species. The results indicate that climatic conditions influence the dispersive behaviour of individual birds, explaining rapid changes in the local population of this species breeding in unstable Mediterranean wetlands. |
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