ArticleThe Journal of animal ecology2020
Cascading effects of climate variability on the breeding success of an edge population of an apex predator.
Article in The Journal of animal ecology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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- Adaptive drift and barrier-avoidance by a fly-forage migrant along a climate-driven flyway.Movement ecology · 2021Article
- Cascading effects of climate variability on the breeding success of an edge population of an apex predator.The Journal of animal ecology · 2020Article
- A new trophic specialization buffers a top predator against climate-driven resource instability.Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral EcologyArticle
- Reproductive senescence in a polymorphic raptor: phenotypic, sex, and environmental effects.Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral EcologyArticle
- Seasonal variation in trans-oceanic flight and island use in a migratory falcon.Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral EcologyArticle
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Abstract
Large-scale environmental forces can influence biodiversity at different levels of biological organization. Climate, in particular, is often associated with species distributions and diversity gradients. However, its mechanistic link to population dynamics is still poorly understood. Here, we unravelled the full mechanistic path by which a climatic driver, the Atlantic trade winds, determines the viability of a bird population. We monitored the breeding population of Eleonora's falcons in the Canary Islands for over a decade (2007-2017) and integrated different methods and data to reconstruct how the availability of their prey (migratory birds) is regulated by trade winds. We tracked foraging movements of breeding adults using GPS, monitored departure of migratory birds using weather radar and simulated their migration trajectories using an individual-based, spatially explicit model. We demonstrate that regional easterly winds regulate the flux of migratory birds that is available to hunting falcons, determining food availability for their chicks and consequent breeding success. By reconstructing how migratory birds are pushed towards the Canary Islands by trade winds, we explain most of the variation (up to 86%) in annual productivity for over a decade. This study unequivocally illustrates how a climatic driver can influence local-scale demographic processes while providing novel evidence of wind as a major determinant of population fitness in a top predator.
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