Winter Temperature Affects the Prevalence of Ticks in an Arctic Seabird
The Arctic is rapidly warming and host-parasite relationships may be modified by such environmental changes. Here, I showed that the average winter temperature in Svalbard, Arctic Norway, explained almost 90% of the average prevalence of ticks in an Arctic seabird, the Brünnich’s guillemot Uria lomv...
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ftpubmed:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:3672161 2023-05-15T14:34:20+02:00 Winter Temperature Affects the Prevalence of Ticks in an Arctic Seabird Descamps, Sébastien 2013-06-04 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3672161 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23750259 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0065374 en eng Public Library of Science http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3672161 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23750259 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0065374 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 2013 ftpubmed https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0065374 2013-09-05T00:37:33Z The Arctic is rapidly warming and host-parasite relationships may be modified by such environmental changes. Here, I showed that the average winter temperature in Svalbard, Arctic Norway, explained almost 90% of the average prevalence of ticks in an Arctic seabird, the Brünnich’s guillemot Uria lomvia. An increase of 1°C in the average winter temperature at the nesting colony site was associated with a 5% increase in the number of birds infected by these ectoparasites in the subsequent breeding season. Guillemots were generally infested by only a few ticks (≤5) and I found no direct effect of tick presence on their body condition and breeding success. However, the strong effect of average winter temperature described here clearly indicates that tick-seabird relationships in the Arctic may be strongly affected by ongoing climate warming. Text Arctic Svalbard Uria lomvia uria PubMed Central (PMC) Arctic Norway Svalbard PLoS ONE 8 6 e65374 |
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The Arctic is rapidly warming and host-parasite relationships may be modified by such environmental changes. Here, I showed that the average winter temperature in Svalbard, Arctic Norway, explained almost 90% of the average prevalence of ticks in an Arctic seabird, the Brünnich’s guillemot Uria lomvia. An increase of 1°C in the average winter temperature at the nesting colony site was associated with a 5% increase in the number of birds infected by these ectoparasites in the subsequent breeding season. Guillemots were generally infested by only a few ticks (≤5) and I found no direct effect of tick presence on their body condition and breeding success. However, the strong effect of average winter temperature described here clearly indicates that tick-seabird relationships in the Arctic may be strongly affected by ongoing climate warming. |
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