ArticleThe Journal of animal ecology2020
Low fitness at low latitudes: Wintering in the tropics increases migratory delays and mortality rates in an Arctic breeding shorebird.
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- Relationship between wintering site and survival in a migratory waterbird using different migration routes.Oecologia · 2024Article
- Low migratory connectivity and similar migratory strategies in a shorebird with contrasting wintering population trends in Europe and West Africa.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Distance doesn't matter: migration strategy in a seabird has no effect on survival or reproduction.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Article
- Energetic and behavioral consequences of migration: an empirical evaluation in the context of the full annual cycle.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Flyway-scale GPS tracking reveals migratory routes and key stopover and non-breeding locations of lesser yellowlegs.Ecology and evolution · 2022Article
- Migratory network reveals unique spatial-temporal migration dynamics of Dunlin subspecies along the East Asian-Australasian Flyway.PloS one · 2022Article
- The costs of migration: Injuries in migratory waterbirds along the west coast of India.Saudi journal of biological sciences · 2021Article
- Benefits of protected areas for nonbreeding waterbirds adjusting their distributions under climate warming.Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology · 2021Article
- Low fitness at low latitudes: Wintering in the tropics increases migratory delays and mortality rates in an Arctic breeding shorebird.The Journal of animal ecology · 2020Article
- Oversummering juvenile and adult Semipalmated sandpipers in Perú gain enough survival to compensate for foregone breeding opportunity.Movement ecology · 2020Article
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Abstract
Evolutionary theories of seasonal migration generally assume that the costs of longer migrations are balanced by benefits at the non-breeding destinations. We tested, and rejected, the null hypothesis of equal survival and timing of spring migration for High Arctic breeding sanderling Calidris alba using six and eight winter destinations between 55°N and 25°S, respectively. Annual apparent survival was considerably lower for adult birds wintering in tropical West Africa (Mauritania: 0.74 and Ghana: 0.75) than in three European sites (0.84, 0.84 and 0.87) and in subtropical Namibia (0.85). Moreover, compared with adults, second calendar-year sanderlings in the tropics, but not in Europe, often refrained from migrating north during the first possible breeding season. During northward migration, tropical-wintering sanderlings occurred at their final staging site in Iceland 5-15 days later than birds wintering further north or south. Namibia-wintering sanderlings tracked with solar geolocators only staged in West Africa during southward migration. The low annual survival, the later age of first northward migration and the later passage through Iceland during northward migration of tropical-wintering sanderlings, in addition to the skipping of this area during northward but not southward migration by Namibia-wintering sanderlings, all suggest they face issues during the late non-breeding season in West Africa. Migrating sanderlings defy long distances but may end up in winter areas with poor fitness prospects. We suggest that ecological conditions in tropical West Africa make the fuelling prior to northward departure problematic.
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