Flexibility of habitat use in novel environments: insights from a translocation experiment with lesser black-backed gulls
Being faced with unknown environments is a concomitant challenge of species' range expansions. Strategies to cope with this challenge include the adaptation to local conditions and a flexibility in resource exploitation. The gulls of the Larus argentatus-fuscus-cachinnans group form a system in...
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ftpubmed:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:5319309 2023-05-15T17:07:54+02:00 Flexibility of habitat use in novel environments: insights from a translocation experiment with lesser black-backed gulls van Toor, Mariëlle L. Arriero, Elena Holland, Richard A. Huttunen, Markku J. Juvaste, Risto Müller, Inge Thorup, Kasper Wikelski, Martin Safi, Kamran 2017-01-18 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5319309/ https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.160164 en eng The Royal Society Publishing http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5319309/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.160164 © 2017 The Authors. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited. CC-BY Biology (Whole Organism) Text 2017 ftpubmed https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.160164 2017-03-12T01:03:58Z Being faced with unknown environments is a concomitant challenge of species' range expansions. Strategies to cope with this challenge include the adaptation to local conditions and a flexibility in resource exploitation. The gulls of the Larus argentatus-fuscus-cachinnans group form a system in which ecological flexibility might have enabled them to expand their range considerably, and to colonize urban environments. However, on a population level both flexibility and local adaptation lead to signatures of differential habitat use in different environments, and these processes are not easily distinguished. Using the lesser black-backed gull (Larus fuscus) as a system, we put both flexibility and local adaptation to a test. We compare habitat use between two spatially separated populations, and use a translocation experiment during which individuals were released into novel environment. The experiment revealed that on a population-level flexibility best explains the differences in habitat use between the two populations. We think that our results suggest that the range expansion and huge success of this species complex could be a result of its broad ecological niche and flexibility in the exploitation of resources. However, this also advises caution when using species distribution models to extrapolate habitat use across space. Text Lesser black-backed gull PubMed Central (PMC) Royal Society Open Science 4 1 160164 |
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Being faced with unknown environments is a concomitant challenge of species' range expansions. Strategies to cope with this challenge include the adaptation to local conditions and a flexibility in resource exploitation. The gulls of the Larus argentatus-fuscus-cachinnans group form a system in which ecological flexibility might have enabled them to expand their range considerably, and to colonize urban environments. However, on a population level both flexibility and local adaptation lead to signatures of differential habitat use in different environments, and these processes are not easily distinguished. Using the lesser black-backed gull (Larus fuscus) as a system, we put both flexibility and local adaptation to a test. We compare habitat use between two spatially separated populations, and use a translocation experiment during which individuals were released into novel environment. The experiment revealed that on a population-level flexibility best explains the differences in habitat use between the two populations. We think that our results suggest that the range expansion and huge success of this species complex could be a result of its broad ecological niche and flexibility in the exploitation of resources. However, this also advises caution when using species distribution models to extrapolate habitat use across space. |
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Flexibility of habitat use in novel environments: insights from a translocation experiment with lesser black-backed gulls |
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Flexibility of habitat use in novel environments: insights from a translocation experiment with lesser black-backed gulls |
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