Timing of Breeding Site Availability Across the North-American Arctic Partly Determines Spring Migration Schedule in a Long-Distance Neotropical Migrant
Long-distance migrants are under strong selection to arrive on their breeding grounds at a time that maximizes fitness. Many arctic birds start nesting shortly after snow recedes from their breeding sites and timing of snowmelt can vary substantially over the breeding range of widespread species. We...
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ftulundlup:oai:lup.lub.lu.se:da1c9441-d4af-42c1-b3e0-00d62e4788fd 2023-05-15T14:29:33+02:00 Timing of Breeding Site Availability Across the North-American Arctic Partly Determines Spring Migration Schedule in a Long-Distance Neotropical Migrant Lamarre, Jean François Gauthier, Gilles Lanctot, Richard B. Saalfeld, Sarah T. Love, Oliver P. Reed, Eric Johnson, Oscar W. Liebezeit, Joe McGuire, Rebecca Russell, Mike Nol, Erica Koloski, Laura Sanders, Felicia McKinnon, Laura Smith, Paul A. Flemming, Scott A. Lecomte, Nicolas Giroux, Marie Andrée Bauer, Silke Emmenegger, Tamara Bêty, Joël 2021-10-21 https://lup.lub.lu.se/record/da1c9441-d4af-42c1-b3e0-00d62e4788fd https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2021.710007 eng eng Frontiers Media S. A. https://lup.lub.lu.se/record/da1c9441-d4af-42c1-b3e0-00d62e4788fd http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2021.710007 scopus:85118725832 Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution; 9, no 710007 (2021) ISSN: 2296-701X Ecology American Golden-Plover arctic birds phenology snowmelt timing of breeding trans-hemispheric migrant contributiontojournal/article info:eu-repo/semantics/article text 2021 ftulundlup https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2021.710007 2023-02-01T23:38:56Z Long-distance migrants are under strong selection to arrive on their breeding grounds at a time that maximizes fitness. Many arctic birds start nesting shortly after snow recedes from their breeding sites and timing of snowmelt can vary substantially over the breeding range of widespread species. We tested the hypothesis that migration schedules of individuals co-occurring at the same non-breeding areas are adapted to average local environmental conditions encountered at their specific and distant Arctic breeding locations. We predicted that timing of breeding site availability (measured here as the average snow-free date) should explain individual variation in departure time from shared non-breeding areas. We tested our prediction by tracking American Golden-Plovers (Pluvialis dominica) nesting across the North-American Arctic. These plovers use a non-breeding (wintering) area in South America and share a spring stopover area in the nearctic temperate grasslands, located >1,800 km away from their nesting locations. As plovers co-occur at the same non-breeding areas but use breeding sites segregated by latitude and longitude, we could disentangle the potential confounding effects of migration distance and timing of breeding site availability on individual migration schedule. As predicted, departure date of individuals stopping-over in sympatry was positively related to the average snow-free date at their respective breeding location, which was also related to individual onset of incubation. Departure date from the shared stopover area was not explained by the distance between the stopover and the breeding location, nor by the stopover duration of individuals. This strongly suggests that plover migration schedule is adapted to and driven by the timing of breeding site availability per se. The proximate mechanism underlying the variable migration schedule of individuals is unknown and may result from genetic differences or individual learning. Temperatures are currently changing at different speeds across the ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic birds Arctic Lund University Publications (LUP) Arctic Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 9 |
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Ecology American Golden-Plover arctic birds phenology snowmelt timing of breeding trans-hemispheric migrant Lamarre, Jean François Gauthier, Gilles Lanctot, Richard B. Saalfeld, Sarah T. Love, Oliver P. Reed, Eric Johnson, Oscar W. Liebezeit, Joe McGuire, Rebecca Russell, Mike Nol, Erica Koloski, Laura Sanders, Felicia McKinnon, Laura Smith, Paul A. Flemming, Scott A. Lecomte, Nicolas Giroux, Marie Andrée Bauer, Silke Emmenegger, Tamara Bêty, Joël Timing of Breeding Site Availability Across the North-American Arctic Partly Determines Spring Migration Schedule in a Long-Distance Neotropical Migrant |
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Long-distance migrants are under strong selection to arrive on their breeding grounds at a time that maximizes fitness. Many arctic birds start nesting shortly after snow recedes from their breeding sites and timing of snowmelt can vary substantially over the breeding range of widespread species. We tested the hypothesis that migration schedules of individuals co-occurring at the same non-breeding areas are adapted to average local environmental conditions encountered at their specific and distant Arctic breeding locations. We predicted that timing of breeding site availability (measured here as the average snow-free date) should explain individual variation in departure time from shared non-breeding areas. We tested our prediction by tracking American Golden-Plovers (Pluvialis dominica) nesting across the North-American Arctic. These plovers use a non-breeding (wintering) area in South America and share a spring stopover area in the nearctic temperate grasslands, located >1,800 km away from their nesting locations. As plovers co-occur at the same non-breeding areas but use breeding sites segregated by latitude and longitude, we could disentangle the potential confounding effects of migration distance and timing of breeding site availability on individual migration schedule. As predicted, departure date of individuals stopping-over in sympatry was positively related to the average snow-free date at their respective breeding location, which was also related to individual onset of incubation. Departure date from the shared stopover area was not explained by the distance between the stopover and the breeding location, nor by the stopover duration of individuals. This strongly suggests that plover migration schedule is adapted to and driven by the timing of breeding site availability per se. The proximate mechanism underlying the variable migration schedule of individuals is unknown and may result from genetic differences or individual learning. Temperatures are currently changing at different speeds across the ... |
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Lamarre, Jean François Gauthier, Gilles Lanctot, Richard B. Saalfeld, Sarah T. Love, Oliver P. Reed, Eric Johnson, Oscar W. Liebezeit, Joe McGuire, Rebecca Russell, Mike Nol, Erica Koloski, Laura Sanders, Felicia McKinnon, Laura Smith, Paul A. Flemming, Scott A. Lecomte, Nicolas Giroux, Marie Andrée Bauer, Silke Emmenegger, Tamara Bêty, Joël |
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Timing of Breeding Site Availability Across the North-American Arctic Partly Determines Spring Migration Schedule in a Long-Distance Neotropical Migrant |
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Timing of Breeding Site Availability Across the North-American Arctic Partly Determines Spring Migration Schedule in a Long-Distance Neotropical Migrant |
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Timing of Breeding Site Availability Across the North-American Arctic Partly Determines Spring Migration Schedule in a Long-Distance Neotropical Migrant |
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Timing of Breeding Site Availability Across the North-American Arctic Partly Determines Spring Migration Schedule in a Long-Distance Neotropical Migrant |
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Timing of Breeding Site Availability Across the North-American Arctic Partly Determines Spring Migration Schedule in a Long-Distance Neotropical Migrant |
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timing of breeding site availability across the north-american arctic partly determines spring migration schedule in a long-distance neotropical migrant |
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