Eurasian Treecreeper (Certhia familiaris)

Harrap, Simon

doi:10.2173/bow.eurtre1.01

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“…-Is endemism of the Corsican population highlighted by previous studies on the basis of plumage variation (Harrap, 2018) and mtDNA (Pons et al, 2015) The mito-nuclear discordance highlighted in Pons et al (2015) will be discussed taking account of the present results. We will discuss the systematic status of the Corsican treecreeper in the light of new information on gene flow and population divergence brought by the present study and conservation issues will be evoked.…”

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“…The Eurasian treecreeper (Certhia familiaris) is a forest passerine found over a very large Palaearctic range from the British Isles to Japan and northern China. Ten morphological subspecies are currently recognized based on slight clinal variation in plumage colour (Harrap, 2018). In a previous study, Pons et al (2015) using mitochondrial markers (COI, Cyt b, ND2) suggested that Eurasian treecreepers found in Corsica belong to a paleoendemic lineage which has an allopatric range, restricted to this island and the Caucasus region.…”

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Gene flow and genetic divergence among mainland and insular populations across the south-western range of the Eurasian treecreeper (Certhia familiaris, Aves)

Pons

Cibois

Fournier

et al. 2019

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

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The Eurasian treecreeper (Certhia familiaris) comprises two mitochondrial lineages that diverged during the mid-Pleistocene. One paleoendemic lineage has an allopatric range currently restricted to the Island of Corsica and the Caucasus region, whereas the second one has a very large Eurasian range. Here we used microsatellites (N = 6) and mitochondrial DNA (COI) to assess the genetic structure of insular and mainland populations from Corsica, mainland France and Central Italy (N = 258) and the level of mitochondrial and nuclear gene flow among these populations. Concordant with the mtDNA signal, microsatellites results clearly demonstrate that the Corsican population (C. f. corsa) is strongly divergent from nearby mainland populations (C. f. macrodactyla). Microsatellite data also support significant divergence and low gene flow between the Central Italian and mainland French populations. Our results suggest low nuclear gene flow from the mainland into Corsica and no mitochondrial gene flow. Sporadic gene flow from the nearby mainland may explain the presence of continental nuclear alleles in the genome of 5% of sampled insular birds. Our study confirms the existence of an endemic Corsican treecreeper lineage with important conservation value. Our results also imply that Eurasian treecreepers from Central Italy constitute a distinct management unit.

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Gene flow and genetic divergence among mainland and insular populations across the south-western range of the Eurasian treecreeper (Certhia familiaris, Aves)

Pons

Cibois

Fournier

et al. 2019

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

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“…Eurasian treecreepers feed on insects and spiders during summer, and also consume Pinus and Picea seeds during winter (Harrap, 2019). Their nests are placed up to 16 m above ground behind a flap of loose bark or in a crevice on a tree trunk (Harrap, 2019). The radii from 30 to 200 m from the nest is the most important spatial scale for forest patch occupancy by the species (Suorsa et al ., 2005), which broadly spans the territory size of 10 ha suggested by Kuitunen & Törmälä (1983).…”

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“…Eurasian treecreepers breed in forests and woodlands. According to Harrap (2019) this species generally requires large mature trees with many bark cracks and crevices, for foraging, roosting and nesting. It tends to favor older stands of Picea , but their habitat preferences are complex.…”

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“…The population has increased in Sweden as a whole over the last two decades (Green et al ., 2019), but their population size is stable in the study region over the same time period (Lindbladh et al ., 2017). Eurasian treecreepers feed on insects and spiders during summer, and also consume Pinus and Picea seeds during winter (Harrap, 2019). Their nests are placed up to 16 m above ground behind a flap of loose bark or in a crevice on a tree trunk (Harrap, 2019).…”

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How generalist are these forest specialists? What Sweden’s avian indicators indicate

Lindbladh

Hedwall

Holmström

et al. 2020

Animal Conservation

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Monitoring of forest biodiversity and habitats is an important part of forest conservation, but due to the impossible task of monitoring all species, indicator species are frequently used. However, reliance on an incorrect indicator of valuable habitat can reduce the efficiency of conservation efforts. Birds are often used as indicators as they are charismatic, relatively easy to survey, and because we often have knowledge of their habitat and resource requirements. In the Swedish government's environmental quality goals, there are a number of bird species identified as being associated with 'older' and 'high natural value' forests. Here we evaluate the occurrence of four of these indicator species using data from 91 production forest stands and 10 forest reserves in southern Sweden. The bird species assessed are willow tit Poecile montanus, coal tit Periparus ater, European crested tit Lophophanes cristatus and Eurasian treecreeper Certhia familiaris. For the production stands assessed, these indicator species exhibited no significant preferences regarding forest composition and structure, indicating a wider range of habitat associations than expected. These species frequently showed territorial behavior in forest stands <60 and even 40 years of age; much younger than the 120-year threshold for 'older forest' as defined by governmental environmental goals. As almost 80% of the production stands ≥10 years old included at least one of the four indicator species, this raises questions regarding the suitability of these species as indictors of forests of high conservational value in southern Sweden. Notably, besides the four species assessed here, none of the additional indicator taxa identified by the government, were recorded in the 10 reserves. This outcome may reflect the difficulties involved in finding bird indicator species indicative of high natural values in this region. Our results highlight the importance of coupling bird surveys with quantified assessments of proximate vegetation cover.

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Interactions between sibling species of treecreepers Certhia familiaris and C. brachydactyla in the Pyrenees and the mistaken identity hypothesis

Clouet¹,

Gérard

2020

Bird Study

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Eurasian Treecreeper (Certhia familiaris)

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Gene flow and genetic divergence among mainland and insular populations across the south-western range of the Eurasian treecreeper (Certhia familiaris, Aves)

Gene flow and genetic divergence among mainland and insular populations across the south-western range of the Eurasian treecreeper (Certhia familiaris, Aves)

How generalist are these forest specialists? What Sweden’s avian indicators indicate

Interactions between sibling species of treecreepers Certhia familiaris and C. brachydactyla in the Pyrenees and the mistaken identity hypothesis

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