ArticleOecologia2011
The impact of climate and cyclic food abundance on the timing of breeding and brood size in four boreal owl species.
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- Determinants of departure to natal dispersal across an elevational gradient in a long-lived raptor species.Ecology and evolution · 2023Article
- Prey-Base Does Not Influence Breeding Success in Eagle Owls (Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2022Article
- Estimating the long-term repeatability of food-hoarding behaviours in an avian predator.Biology letters · 2021Article
- Interactive influences of fluctuations of main food resources and climate change on long-term population decline of Tengmalm's owls in the boreal forest.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- The effect of climate change on laying dates, clutch size and productivity of Eurasian Coots Fulica atra.International journal of biometeorology · 2020Article
- Weather and biotic interactions as determinants of seasonal shifts in abundance measured through nest-box occupancy in the Siberian flying squirrel.Scientific reports · 2020Article
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- Dampening prey cycle overrides the impact of climate change on predator population dynamics: a long-term demographic study on tawny owls.Global change biology · 2014Article
- Reproductive phenology of a food-hoarding mast-seed consumer: resource- and density-dependent benefits of early breeding in red squirrels.Oecologia · 2014Article
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Abstract
The ongoing climate change has improved our understanding of how climate affects the reproduction of animals. However, the interaction between food availability and climate on breeding has rarely been examined. While it has been shown that breeding of boreal birds of prey is first and foremost determined by prey abundance, little information exists on how climatic conditions influence this relationship. We studied the joint effects of main prey abundance and ambient weather on timing of breeding and reproductive success of two smaller (pygmy owl Glaucidium passerinum and Tengmalm's owl Aegolius funereus) and two larger (tawny owl Strix aluco and Ural owl Strix uralensis) avian predator species using long-term nation-wide datasets during 1973-2004. We found no temporal trend either in vole abundance or in hatching date and brood size of any studied owl species. In the larger species, increasing late winter or early spring temperature advanced breeding at least as much as did high autumn abundance of prey (voles). Furthermore, increasing snow depth delayed breeding of the largest species (Ural owl), presumably by reducing the availability of voles. Brood size was strongly determined by spring vole abundance in all four owl species. These results show that climate directly affects the breeding performance of vole-eating boreal avian predators much more than previously thought. According to earlier studies, small-sized species should advance their breeding more than larger species in response to increasing temperature. However, we found an opposite pattern, with larger species being more sensitive to temperature. We argue that this pattern is caused by a difference in the breeding tactics of larger mostly capital breeding and smaller mostly income breeding owl species.
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