Discriminating uniparental and biparental breeding strategies by monitoring nest temperature
Birds exhibit a wide diversity of breeding strategies. During incubation or chick-rearing, parental care can be either uniparental, by either the male or the female, or biparental. Understanding the selective pressures that drive these different strategies represents an exciting challenge for ecolog...
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ftunigroningenpu:oai:pure.rug.nl:publications/8e79b478-e940-48e1-b5c7-0b5140b4955c 2024-06-23T07:51:54+00:00 Discriminating uniparental and biparental breeding strategies by monitoring nest temperature Moreau, Jerome Perroud, Lucie Bollache, Loïc Yannic, Glenn Teixeira, Maria Reneerkens, Jeroen Schmidt, Niels Martin Gilg, Olivier 2018-01 application/pdf https://hdl.handle.net/11370/8e79b478-e940-48e1-b5c7-0b5140b4955c https://research.rug.nl/en/publications/8e79b478-e940-48e1-b5c7-0b5140b4955c https://doi.org/10.1111/ibi.12507 https://pure.rug.nl/ws/files/51454317/Moreau_et_al_2018_Ibis.pdf eng eng https://research.rug.nl/en/publications/8e79b478-e940-48e1-b5c7-0b5140b4955c info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Moreau , J , Perroud , L , Bollache , L , Yannic , G , Teixeira , M , Reneerkens , J , Schmidt , N M & Gilg , O 2018 , ' Discriminating uniparental and biparental breeding strategies by monitoring nest temperature ' , IBIS – International Journal of Ornithology , vol. 160 , no. 1 , pp. 13-22 . https://doi.org/10.1111/ibi.12507 incubation incubation behaviour shorebirds Sanderling thermologger incubation system article 2018 ftunigroningenpu https://doi.org/10.1111/ibi.12507 2024-06-10T16:32:09Z Birds exhibit a wide diversity of breeding strategies. During incubation or chick-rearing, parental care can be either uniparental, by either the male or the female, or biparental. Understanding the selective pressures that drive these different strategies represents an exciting challenge for ecologists. In this context, assigning the type of parental care at the nest (e.g. biparental or uniparental incubation strategy) is often a prerequisite to answering questions in evolutionary ecology. The aim of this study was to produce a standardized method unequivocally to assign an incubation strategy to any Sanderling Calidris alba nest found in the field by monitoring nest temperature profiles. Using drops of >3 °C in nest temperature (recorded with thermistors) to distinguish incubation and recess periods, we showed that the number of recesses and the total duration of these recesses from 09:00 to 17:00 h UTC allowed us reliably (99.1% after 24 h and 100% when monitoring the nest for at least 4 days) to assign the incubation strategy at the nest for 21 breeding adults (14 nests). Monitoring nest temperature for at least 24 h is an effective method to assign an incubation strategy without having to re-visit nests, thereby saving time in the field and minimizing both disturbance and related increase in predation risk of clutches. Given the advantages of our method, we suggest that it should be used more widely in studies that aim to document incubation strategies and patterns in regions where ambient temperatures are at least 3 °C below the median nest temperature. Article in Journal/Newspaper Calidris alba Sanderling University of Groningen research database Recess ENVELOPE(-61.516,-61.516,-64.500,-64.500) Ibis 160 1 13 22 |
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incubation incubation behaviour shorebirds Sanderling thermologger incubation system Moreau, Jerome Perroud, Lucie Bollache, Loïc Yannic, Glenn Teixeira, Maria Reneerkens, Jeroen Schmidt, Niels Martin Gilg, Olivier Discriminating uniparental and biparental breeding strategies by monitoring nest temperature |
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Birds exhibit a wide diversity of breeding strategies. During incubation or chick-rearing, parental care can be either uniparental, by either the male or the female, or biparental. Understanding the selective pressures that drive these different strategies represents an exciting challenge for ecologists. In this context, assigning the type of parental care at the nest (e.g. biparental or uniparental incubation strategy) is often a prerequisite to answering questions in evolutionary ecology. The aim of this study was to produce a standardized method unequivocally to assign an incubation strategy to any Sanderling Calidris alba nest found in the field by monitoring nest temperature profiles. Using drops of >3 °C in nest temperature (recorded with thermistors) to distinguish incubation and recess periods, we showed that the number of recesses and the total duration of these recesses from 09:00 to 17:00 h UTC allowed us reliably (99.1% after 24 h and 100% when monitoring the nest for at least 4 days) to assign the incubation strategy at the nest for 21 breeding adults (14 nests). Monitoring nest temperature for at least 24 h is an effective method to assign an incubation strategy without having to re-visit nests, thereby saving time in the field and minimizing both disturbance and related increase in predation risk of clutches. Given the advantages of our method, we suggest that it should be used more widely in studies that aim to document incubation strategies and patterns in regions where ambient temperatures are at least 3 °C below the median nest temperature. |
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Moreau, Jerome Perroud, Lucie Bollache, Loïc Yannic, Glenn Teixeira, Maria Reneerkens, Jeroen Schmidt, Niels Martin Gilg, Olivier |
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Discriminating uniparental and biparental breeding strategies by monitoring nest temperature |
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Discriminating uniparental and biparental breeding strategies by monitoring nest temperature |
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Discriminating uniparental and biparental breeding strategies by monitoring nest temperature |
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Discriminating uniparental and biparental breeding strategies by monitoring nest temperature |
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Discriminating uniparental and biparental breeding strategies by monitoring nest temperature |
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discriminating uniparental and biparental breeding strategies by monitoring nest temperature |
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Moreau , J , Perroud , L , Bollache , L , Yannic , G , Teixeira , M , Reneerkens , J , Schmidt , N M & Gilg , O 2018 , ' Discriminating uniparental and biparental breeding strategies by monitoring nest temperature ' , IBIS – International Journal of Ornithology , vol. 160 , no. 1 , pp. 13-22 . https://doi.org/10.1111/ibi.12507 |
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