Effects of Weather Conditions, Time of Breeding, Brood Size and Hatching Order on Eurasian Bittern Nestling Growth in a Food-Rich Fishpond Habitat

Kasprzykowski, Zbigniew; Polak, Marcin; Chylarecki, Przemysław

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“…Our results therefore raise not only the question of why tradeoffs between the traits did not exist, but why so much variation in body condition and wing development at fledging exists amongst juvenile dickcissels. Indeed, more experimental and comparative studies are needed to examine how factors – environmental conditions (Remes and Martin , Kasprzykowski et al ), length of the nestling period (Remes and Martin , Cheng and Martin ), parental investment (Remes and Martin , Searcy et al , Wada et al ), traits constraining growth of other traits (Nijhout and Emlen ), and the genotype of individuals – influence development of nestling traits that carryover and affect survival of fledglings and thus parental fitness during the post‐fledging period. Future research should also examine how phenotypic traits at fledging vary across environmental or latitudinal gradients.…”

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“…body mass, body condition, wing length, wing development, etc.) at fledging may be influenced by factors such as parental incubation, parental provisioning performance, ambient temperatures, precipitation, predation risk, and food quality and abundance (Remes and Martin , Searcy et al , Brouwer et al , Kasprzykowski et al , Wada et al ). If juvenile phenotypic traits influence post‐fledging survival, then fledgling survival is expected to be, in part, a function of carryover effects from the nestling phase.…”

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Variation in nestling body condition and wing development predict cause‐specific mortality in fledgling dickcissels

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Ward

Benson

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Journal of Avian Biology

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Phenotypic traits developed in one life‐history stage can carryover and affect survival in subsequent stages. For songbirds, carryover effects from the pre‐ to post‐fledging period may be crucial for survival but are poorly understood. We assessed whether juvenile body condition and wing development at fledging influenced survival during the post‐fledging period in the dickcissel Spiza americana. We found pre‐ to post‐fledging carryover effects on fledgling survival for both traits during the ‘early part’ – first four days – of the post‐fledging period. Survival benefits of each trait depended on cause‐specific sources of mortality; individuals in better body condition were less likely to die from exposure to adverse environmental conditions, whereas those with more advanced wing development were less likely to be preyed upon. Fledglings with more advanced wing development were comparatively more active and mobile earlier in the post‐fledging period, suggesting they were better able to avoid predators. Our results provide some of the first evidence linking development of juvenile phenotypic traits to survival against specific sources of post‐fledging mortality in songbirds. Further investigation into pre‐ to post‐fledging carryover effects may yield important insights into avian life‐history evolution.

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Variation in nestling body condition and wing development predict cause‐specific mortality in fledgling dickcissels

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Benson

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Journal of Avian Biology

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“…Arlettaz et al 2010, Conrey et al 2016, Crombie & Arcese 2018, but see Oppel et al 2013. Negative effects of rainfall on nestling mass and growth have been shown in a number of species, for example Cirl Bunting Emberiza cirlus (Evans et al 1997), Pied Flycatcher Ficedula hypoleuca (Siikam€ aki 1996), Eurasian Bittern Botaurus stellaris (Kasprzykowski et al 2014), Gambel's White-Crowned Sparrow Zonotrichia leucophrys gambelii and Lapland Longspur Calcarius lapponicus (P erez et al 2016). Although the effects of rainfall on chick mass seem to be typically negative, this is not universal.…”

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“…Wind is an important meteorological variable that is likely to affect chick growth and development through changes in prey abundance and availability (Quinney et al 1986, Dawson & Bortolotti 2000, Møller 2013, and by altering the nest microclimate and costs of thermoregulation (Salzman 1982, Bakken et al 2002, Heenan & Seymour 2012, Gray & Deeming 2017. Only a few studies have linked higher wind speeds to reduced nestling growth, for example in nestling Blue Tits Cyanistes caeruleus (Mainwaring & Hartley 2016), Black-legged Kittiwakes Rissa tridactyla (Christensen-Dalsgaard et al 2018) and Eurasian Bittern (Kasprzykowski et al 2014). However, in contrast to rainfall and temperature, and despite growing evidence of its influence on reproductive traits (Møller 2013, Irons et al 2017, the impact of wind speed on chick growth has received less attention and is less well known (Mainwaring & Hartley 2016, Irons et al 2017.…”

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Contrasting sensitivity of nestling and fledgling Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica body mass to local weather conditions

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Smith

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Local weather can influence the growth and development of young birds either indirectly, by modifying prey availability, or directly, by affecting energetic trade‐offs. Such effects can have lasting implications for life history traits, but the nature of these effets may vary with the developmental stage of the birds, and over timescales from days to weeks. We examined the interactive effects of temperature, rainfall and wind speed on the mass of nestling and fledgling Barn Swallows Hirundo rustica both on the day of capture and averaging weather across the time since hatching. At the daily timescale, nestling mass was negatively correlated with temperature, but the strength of this association depended on the level of rainfall and wind speed; nestlings were typically heavier on dry or windy days, and the negative effect of temperature was strongest under calm or wet conditions. At the early lifetime timescale (i.e. from hatching to pre‐fledging), nestling mass was negatively correlated with temperature at low wind speed. Fledgling body mass was less sensitive to weather; the only weather effect evident was a negative correlation with temperature at the daily scale under high rainfall that became slightly positive under low rainfall. These changes are consistent with weather effects on the availability and distribution of insects within the landscape (e.g. causing high concentrations of flying insects) and with the effects of weather variation on nest microclimate. These results together demonstrate the impacts of weather on chick growth, over immediate (daily) and longer term (nestling/fledgling lifetime) timescales. This shows that sensitivity to local weather conditions varies across the early lifetime of young birds (nestling–fledgling stages) and illustrates the mechanisms by which larger scale (climate) variations influence the body condition of individuals.

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“…This is particularly true in the Arctic where environmental change is occurring faster than the global average (Kattsov et al 2005, Trenberth andJosey 2007). For raptors, the brood rearing period is particularly sensitive to environmental conditions due to a combination of nestling vulnerability and increased energetic demands from adults (Dawson andBortolotti 2002, Robinson et al 2007), and parameters of breeding success are often used to gauge the vulnerability of populations to changes in the environment (Steenhof et al 1997, Vincenzi and Mangel 2013, Anctil et al 2014, Kasprzykowski et al 2014. Although nestling survival is an important and often used parameter, it is binary (either an individual survives or dies) and simple survival can miss the more subtle responses exhibited by nestlings.…”

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Assessing the effects of environmental variables on nestling growth using non-linear mixed effect models

Hedlin¹,

Franke²

2017

Applied Raptor Ecology: Essentials From Gyrfalcon Research

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rienced by a runt is lost in survival analysis because this individual has survived and is deemed to have "passed" the brood rearing test. Growth analysis can provide further insight by showing how well an individual developed. Not only does this increase the sensitivity of our observations during the brood rearing period, but because nestling condition and fledging mass are correlated to future fitness components such as survival

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Effects of Weather Conditions, Time of Breeding, Brood Size and Hatching Order on Eurasian Bittern Nestling Growth in a Food-Rich Fishpond Habitat

Cited by 12 publications

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Variation in nestling body condition and wing development predict cause‐specific mortality in fledgling dickcissels

Variation in nestling body condition and wing development predict cause‐specific mortality in fledgling dickcissels

Contrasting sensitivity of nestling and fledgling Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica body mass to local weather conditions

Assessing the effects of environmental variables on nestling growth using non-linear mixed effect models

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