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ArticlePloS one2013

Climate influences fledgling sex ratio and sex-specific dispersal in a seabird.

Alvaro Barros, David Alvarez, Alberto Velando

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Article in PloS one, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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3 authors.

Alvaro BarrosDepartamento de Ecoloxía e Bioloxía Animal, Universidade de Vigo, Pontevedra, Spain. alvaro.barros@uvigo.es
David Alvarez
Alberto Velando

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Abstract

Climate influences the dynamics of natural populations by direct effects over habitat quality but also modulating the phenotypic responses of organisms' life-history traits. These responses may be different in males and females, particularly in dimorphic species, due to sex-specific requirements or constraints. Here, in a coastal seabird, the European shag (Phalacrocorax aristotelis), we studied the influence of climate (North Atlantic Oscillation, NAO; Sea Surface Temperature, SST) on two sex-related population parameters: fledgling sex ratio and sex-specific dispersal. We found that fledgling sex ratio was female skewed in NAO-positive years and male skewed in NAO-negative years. Accordingly, females dispersed a longer distance in NAO-positive years when females were overproduced, and on the contrary, males dispersed more in NAO-negative years. Overall, our findings provide rare evidence on vertebrates with genetic sex determination that climate conditions may govern population dynamics by affecting sex-specific density and dispersal.

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ClimateSex RatioAnimalsAtlantic OceanBirdsFemaleMalePopulation Dynamics

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PMID23951144
PMCPMC3738640

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