Habitat selection, diet and food availability of European Golden Plover Pluvialis apricaria chicks in Swedish Lapland
Fennoscandian alpine tundra habitats support large numbers of breeding waders, but relatively little is known about their breeding ecology despite the fact that this habitat is threatened by climate change. We studied habitat selection, diet and prey availability of European (Eurasian) Golden Plover...
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ftunigroningenpu:oai:pure.rug.nl:publications/a98b4f51-f532-48f9-aafd-e19d7c931889 2024-09-15T18:05:15+00:00 Habitat selection, diet and food availability of European Golden Plover Pluvialis apricaria chicks in Swedish Lapland Machin, Paula Fernandez-Elipe, Juan Flinks, Heiner Laso, Maite Aguirre, Jose I. Klaassen, Raymond H. G. 2017-07 application/pdf https://hdl.handle.net/11370/a98b4f51-f532-48f9-aafd-e19d7c931889 https://research.rug.nl/en/publications/a98b4f51-f532-48f9-aafd-e19d7c931889 https://doi.org/10.1111/ibi.12479 https://pure.rug.nl/ws/files/97634053/Mach_n_et_al_2017_Ibis.pdf eng eng https://research.rug.nl/en/publications/a98b4f51-f532-48f9-aafd-e19d7c931889 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Machin , P , Fernandez-Elipe , J , Flinks , H , Laso , M , Aguirre , J I & Klaassen , R H G 2017 , ' Habitat selection, diet and food availability of European Golden Plover Pluvialis apricaria chicks in Swedish Lapland ' , Ibis , vol. 159 , no. 3 , pp. 657-672 . https://doi.org/10.1111/ibi.12479 chick ecology Sweden wader CLIMATE-CHANGE BREEDING SUCCESS BIRDS PREY GROWTH BIBIONIDAE ABUNDANCE MOORLAND NORTHERN BUDGETS article 2017 ftunigroningenpu https://doi.org/10.1111/ibi.12479 2024-07-01T14:49:23Z Fennoscandian alpine tundra habitats support large numbers of breeding waders, but relatively little is known about their breeding ecology despite the fact that this habitat is threatened by climate change. We studied habitat selection, diet and prey availability of European (Eurasian) Golden Plover Pluvialis apricaria chicks at the Vindelfjallen Nature Reserve, Ammarnas, Sweden. Information from 22 chicks tracked using radio-transmitters was analysed. By analysing 149 faecal samples, four main prey taxa were identified, Coleoptera (40%), Bibionidae (31%), Hymenoptera (13%) and Tipulidae (10%). We found that chicks switched from feeding on Tipulidae to feeding on Bibionidae as they grew, and that this switch coincided with a shift from the use of the habitat where Tipulidae were abundant (alpine meadow/heathland) to the use of the habitat were Bibionidae were abundant (Willow shrub). Although chicks track food availability to some extent, the link between prey availability and habitat use was not perfect, indicating that additional factors other than food abundance, such as shelter from predators, determine habitat selection. Bibionidae are an important prey for Golden Plover chicks as it is the only prey group that has a late summer flush in abundance, in contrast to the general decline of total arthropod biomass during the chick-rearing period. However, Bibionidae imagoes only occurred in 2011 and were virtually absent in 2013, which relates to the species' ecology with 2- to 5-year cycles in mass occurrence. Extreme annual variation in an essential food source such as Bibionidae imagoes might have an important effect on the condition and survival of Golden Plover chicks, an important subject for future studies. The foraging conditions for Golden Plover chicks in Fennoscandia appear to be different to those in the UK, where the chicks rely mainly on a Tipulidae flush only. Article in Journal/Newspaper European Golden Plover Fennoscandia Fennoscandian Pluvialis apricaria Tundra Lapland University of Groningen research database Ibis 159 3 657 672 |
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Fennoscandian alpine tundra habitats support large numbers of breeding waders, but relatively little is known about their breeding ecology despite the fact that this habitat is threatened by climate change. We studied habitat selection, diet and prey availability of European (Eurasian) Golden Plover Pluvialis apricaria chicks at the Vindelfjallen Nature Reserve, Ammarnas, Sweden. Information from 22 chicks tracked using radio-transmitters was analysed. By analysing 149 faecal samples, four main prey taxa were identified, Coleoptera (40%), Bibionidae (31%), Hymenoptera (13%) and Tipulidae (10%). We found that chicks switched from feeding on Tipulidae to feeding on Bibionidae as they grew, and that this switch coincided with a shift from the use of the habitat where Tipulidae were abundant (alpine meadow/heathland) to the use of the habitat were Bibionidae were abundant (Willow shrub). Although chicks track food availability to some extent, the link between prey availability and habitat use was not perfect, indicating that additional factors other than food abundance, such as shelter from predators, determine habitat selection. Bibionidae are an important prey for Golden Plover chicks as it is the only prey group that has a late summer flush in abundance, in contrast to the general decline of total arthropod biomass during the chick-rearing period. However, Bibionidae imagoes only occurred in 2011 and were virtually absent in 2013, which relates to the species' ecology with 2- to 5-year cycles in mass occurrence. Extreme annual variation in an essential food source such as Bibionidae imagoes might have an important effect on the condition and survival of Golden Plover chicks, an important subject for future studies. The foraging conditions for Golden Plover chicks in Fennoscandia appear to be different to those in the UK, where the chicks rely mainly on a Tipulidae flush only. |
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Machin, Paula Fernandez-Elipe, Juan Flinks, Heiner Laso, Maite Aguirre, Jose I. Klaassen, Raymond H. G. |
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Machin, Paula Fernandez-Elipe, Juan Flinks, Heiner Laso, Maite Aguirre, Jose I. Klaassen, Raymond H. G. |
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Habitat selection, diet and food availability of European Golden Plover Pluvialis apricaria chicks in Swedish Lapland |
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Habitat selection, diet and food availability of European Golden Plover Pluvialis apricaria chicks in Swedish Lapland |
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Habitat selection, diet and food availability of European Golden Plover Pluvialis apricaria chicks in Swedish Lapland |
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Habitat selection, diet and food availability of European Golden Plover Pluvialis apricaria chicks in Swedish Lapland |
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Habitat selection, diet and food availability of European Golden Plover Pluvialis apricaria chicks in Swedish Lapland |
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habitat selection, diet and food availability of european golden plover pluvialis apricaria chicks in swedish lapland |
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European Golden Plover Fennoscandia Fennoscandian Pluvialis apricaria Tundra Lapland |
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Machin , P , Fernandez-Elipe , J , Flinks , H , Laso , M , Aguirre , J I & Klaassen , R H G 2017 , ' Habitat selection, diet and food availability of European Golden Plover Pluvialis apricaria chicks in Swedish Lapland ' , Ibis , vol. 159 , no. 3 , pp. 657-672 . https://doi.org/10.1111/ibi.12479 |
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