ArticlePloS one2018
High intra-specific variation in avian body condition responses to climate limits generalisation across species.
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- Warming temperatures drive at least half of the magnitude of long-term trait changes in European birds.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
- Long-term trends in the body condition of parents and offspring of Tengmalm's owls under fluctuating food conditions and climate change.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Weather at the winter and stopover areas determines spring migration onset, progress, and advancements in Afro-Palearctic migrant birds.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020Article
- Long-term declines in winter body mass of tits throughout Britain and Ireland correlate with climate change.Ecology and evolution · 2019Article
- Behavioural, ecological and evolutionary responses to extreme climatic events: challenges and directions.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2017Article
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Abstract
It is generally assumed that populations of a species will have similar responses to climate change, and thereby that a single value of sensitivity will reflect species-specific responses. However, this assumption is rarely systematically tested. High intraspecific variation will have consequences for identifying species- or population-level traits that can predict differences in sensitivity, which in turn can affect the reliability of projections of future climate change impacts. We investigate avian body condition responses to changes in six climatic variables and how consistent and generalisable these responses are both across and within species, using 21 years of data from 46 common passerines across 80 Dutch sites. We show that body condition decreases with warmer spring/early summer temperatures and increases with higher humidity, but other climate variables do not show consistent trends across species. In the future, body condition is projected to decrease by 2050, mainly driven by temperature effects. Strikingly, populations of the same species generally responded just as differently as populations of different species implying that a single species signal is not meaningful. Consequently, species-level traits did not explain interspecific differences in sensitivities, rather population-level traits were more important. The absence of a clear species signal in body condition responses implies that generalisation and identifying species for conservation prioritisation is problematic, which sharply contrasts conclusions of previous studies on the climate sensitivity of phenology.
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