Warming Arctic summers unlikely to increase productivity of shorebirds through renesting.

Autor: Saalfeld ST; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Migratory Bird Management, 1011 East Tudor Road, MS 201, Anchorage, AK, 99503, USA. sarah_saalfeld@fws.gov., Hill BL; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Migratory Bird Management, 1011 East Tudor Road, MS 201, Anchorage, AK, 99503, USA.; Department of Biology and Wildlife, University of Alaska Fairbanks, P.O. Box 756100, Fairbanks, AK, 99775, USA.; Coastal Bend Bays and Estuaries Program, 615 N. Upper Broadway, Suite 1200, Corpus Christi, TX, 78401, USA., Hunter CM; Department of Biology and Wildlife, University of Alaska Fairbanks, P.O. Box 756100, Fairbanks, AK, 99775, USA.; Department of Conservation, Biodiversity Group, Private Bag 5, Nelson, 7010, New Zealand., Frost CJ; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Migratory Bird Management, 1011 East Tudor Road, MS 201, Anchorage, AK, 99503, USA., Lanctot RB; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Migratory Bird Management, 1011 East Tudor Road, MS 201, Anchorage, AK, 99503, USA.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Scientific reports [Sci Rep] 2021 Jul 27; Vol. 11 (1), pp. 15277. Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 Jul 27.
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-94788-z
Abstrakt: Climate change in the Arctic is leading to earlier summers, creating a phenological mismatch between the hatching of insectivorous birds and the availability of their invertebrate prey. While phenological mismatch would presumably lower the survival of chicks, climate change is also leading to longer, warmer summers that may increase the annual productivity of birds by allowing adults to lay nests over a longer period of time, replace more nests that fail, and provide physiological relief to chicks (i.e., warmer temperatures that reduce thermoregulatory costs). However, there is little information on how these competing ecological processes will ultimately impact the demography of bird populations. In 2008 and 2009, we investigated the survival of chicks from initial and experimentally-induced replacement nests of arcticola Dunlin (Calidris alpina) breeding near Utqiaġvik, Alaska. We monitored survival of 66 broods from 41 initial and 25 replacement nests. Based on the average hatch date of each group, chick survival (up to age 15 days) from replacement nests (Ŝ i  = 0.10; 95% CI = 0.02-0.22) was substantially lower than initial nests (Ŝ i  = 0.67; 95% CI = 0.48-0.81). Daily survival rates were greater for older chicks, chicks from earlier-laid clutches, and during periods of greater invertebrate availability. As temperature was less important to daily survival rates of shorebird chicks than invertebrate availability, our results indicate that any physiological relief experienced by chicks will likely be overshadowed by the need for adequate food. Furthermore, the processes creating a phenological mismatch between hatching of shorebird young and invertebrate emergence ensures that warmer, longer breeding seasons will not translate into abundant food throughout the longer summers. Thus, despite having a greater opportunity to nest later (and potentially replace nests), young from these late-hatching broods will likely not have sufficient food to survive. Collectively, these results indicate that warmer, longer summers in the Arctic are unlikely to increase annual recruitment rates, and thus unable to compensate for low adult survival, which is typically limited by factors away from the Arctic-breeding grounds.
(© 2021. The Author(s).)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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