1. Behavioural responses of breeding arctic sandpipers to ground-surface temperature and primary productivity
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Jannik Hansen, Laura McKinnon, Eve Afonso, Johannes Lang, Brigitte Sabard, Richard B. Lanctot, Jérôme Moreau, Lisa V. Kennedy, Natalia Sokolova, Niels Martin Schmidt, Aleksander Sokolov, Loïc Bollache, Paul Smith, Jeroen Reneerkens, Vladimir Gilg, Sarah T. Saalfeld, François-Xavier Dechaume-Moncharmont, Anders Angerbjörn, Dorothee Ehrich, Nicolas Meyer, Olivier Gilg, Christopher J. Latty, Øystein Varpe, Nicolas Lecomte, Rob van Bemmelen, Glen S. Brown, Marie-Andrée Giroux, Vasiliy Sokolov, Matthias Galipaud, Benoît Sittler, Joël Bêty, Laboratoire Chrono-environnement - CNRS - UBFC (UMR 6249) (LCE), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Franche-Comté (UFC), Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC)-Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC), Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, Universität Zürich [Zürich] = University of Zurich (UZH), Biogéosciences [UMR 6282] [Dijon] (BGS), Université de Bourgogne (UB)-AgroSup Dijon - Institut National Supérieur des Sciences Agronomiques, de l'Alimentation et de l'Environnement-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Équipe 4 - Écophysiologie, Comportement, Conservation (E2C), Laboratoire d'Ecologie des Hydrosystèmes Naturels et Anthropisés (LEHNA), Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-École Nationale des Travaux Publics de l'État (ENTPE)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-École Nationale des Travaux Publics de l'État (ENTPE)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Department of Zoology, Stockholm University, Departement de Biologie, Chimie et Géographie, Université du Québec à Rimouski (UQAR), Centre d'Etudes Nordiques (CEN), Université Laval [Québec] (ULaval), Wildlife Research & Monitoring Section, Department of Arctic and Marine Biology, University of Tromsø (UiT), K.-C.-Irving Research Chair in Environmental Sciences and Sustainable Development, Université de Moncton, Arctic Research Centre [Aarhus] (ARC), Aarhus University [Aarhus], Department of Bioscience [Aarhus], Division of Migratory Bird Management, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Working Group for Wildlife Research at the Clinic for Birds, Reptiles, Amphibians and Fish, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, US Fish and Wildlife Service, Canada Research Chair in Polar and Boreal Ecology, Department of Multidisciplinary Studies, York University [Toronto], Trent University, Community and Conservation Ecology Group [Groningen], Université de Groningen, Department of Coastal Systems, Utrecht University [Utrecht]-Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ), Chair for Nature Conservation and Landscape Ecology, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Arctic Research Station of Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology, Ural Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences (UB RAS), Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology, Bureau Waardenburg, The University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS), Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA), Department of Biological Sciences [Bergen] (BIO / UiB), University of Bergen (UiB), Study supported by the French Polar Institute (program '1036 Interactions'), PRC CNRS Russie (program 'ECCVAT', SABE and ERKU), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC, IGLO, BYLO), the Polar Continental Shelf Program (IGLO, BYLO), the Canada Chair Research Program(IGLO), the Canadian Fund for Innovation (IGLO), Northern Scientific Training Program (BYLO, IGLO and CHUR), the Igloolik Hunters and Trappers Organization (IGLO), Université de Moncton (IGLO), ArcticNet (BYLO), Polar Knowledge Canada (BYLO), the Churchill Northern Studies Centre (CHUR), the Russian Fund for Basic Research (grants #18-54-15013 and #18-05-60261, ERKU, SABE, BELY), Yamal-LNG (SABE), Gazpromtrans (ERKU), NGO Russian Center of Development of the Arctic (ERKU), the Netherlands Polar Program of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific research (grant #866.15.207 and #886.13.005, ZACK and AMMA), the Danish Environmental Protection Agency (ZACK), theMetawad project awarded by Waddenfonds (WF209925, ZACK), U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (UTQI and CARI), Arctic Landscape Conservation Cooperative(UTQI), the National Fish andWildlife Foundation (UTQI),Manomet Inc (UTQI, CARI), Alaska Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit (CARI), and The University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS)., and Piersma group
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Environmental Engineering ,Aves [Birds] ,010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences ,Sandpiper ,NDVI ,Zoology ,Incubation recesses ,010501 environmental sciences ,Biology ,Breeding ,01 natural sciences ,Incubation behaviour ,Nesting Behavior ,Charadriiformes ,incubation recesses ,Environmental Chemistry ,Small species ,Animals ,Environmental conditions ,Waste Management and Disposal ,Incubation ,Primary productivity ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences ,Reproductive success ,Arctic Regions ,incubation strategy ,Lag effects ,Ground surface temperature ,Temperature ,incubation behaviour ,Shorebird ,biology.organism_classification ,Pollution ,lag effects ,environmental conditions ,Arctic ,shorebird ,Incubation strategy ,Genus Calidris ,[SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology - Abstract
Most birds incubate their eggs, which requires time and energy at the expense of other activities. Birds generally have two incubation strategies: biparental where both mates cooperate in incubating eggs, and uniparental where a single parent incubates. In harsh and unpredictable environments, incubation is challenging due to high energetic demands and variable resource availability. We studied the relationships between the incubation behaviour of sandpipers (genus Calidris) and two environmental variables: temperature and a proxy of primary productivity (i.e. NDVI). We investigated how these relationships vary between incubation strategies and across species among strategies. We also studied how the relationship between current temperature and incubation behaviour varies with previous day's temperature. We monitored the incubation behaviour of nine sandpiper species using thermologgers at 15 arctic sites between 2016 and 2019. We also used thermologgers to record the ground surface temperature at conspecific nest sites and extracted NDVI values from a remote sensing product. We found no relationship between either environmental variables and biparental incubation behaviour. Conversely, as ground-surface temperature increased, uniparental species decreased total duration of recesses (TDR) and mean duration of recesses (MDR), but increased number of recesses (NR). Moreover, small species showed stronger relationships with ground-surface temperature than large species. When all uniparental species were combined, an increase in NDVI was correlated with higher mean duration, total duration and number of recesses, but relationships varied widely across species. Finally, some uniparental species showed a lag effect with a higher nest attentiveness after a warm day while more recesses occurred after a cold day than was predicted based on current temperatures. We demonstrate the complex interplay between shorebird incubation strategies, incubation behaviour, and environmental conditions. Understanding how species respond to changes in their environment during incubation helps predict their future reproductive success.
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- 2021