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ArticleEcology letters2025

How Do Synchrony in Survival and Productivity Influence Abundance Synchrony in European Landbirds?

Catriona A Morrison, Jennifer A Gill, Claire Buchan, Robert A Robinson, Juan Arizaga, Oriol Baltà, Emanuel Baltag, Jaroslav Cepák, Pierre-Yves Henry, Ian Henshaw and 7 more

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Article in Ecology letters, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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17 authors.

Catriona A MorrisonSchool of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4293-2717
Jennifer A GillSchool of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK.
Claire BuchanSchool of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK.
Robert A RobinsonBritish Trust for Ornithology, Thetford, UK.
Juan ArizagaDepartment of Ornithology, Aranzadi Sciences Society, Donostia, Spain.
Oriol BaltàCatalan Ornithological Institute, Nat-Museu de Ciències Naturals de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
Emanuel BaltagMarine Biological Research Station "Prof. Dr. Ioan Borcea" Agigea, University "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" of Iași, Iaşi, Romania.
Jaroslav CepákBird Ringing Centre, National Museum, Praha, Czech Republic.
Pierre-Yves HenryCentre de Recherches sur la Biologie des Populations d'Oiseaux (CRBPO), Mécanismes Adaptatifs et évolution (MECADEV UMR 7179), Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Brunoy, France.
Ian HenshawSwedish Bird Ringing Centre, Department for Nature and Environmental Monitoring, The Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden.
Zsolt KarczaHungarian Bird Ringing Centre, Birdlife Hungary, Budapest, Hungary.
Petteri LehikoinenZoology Unit, The Finnish Museum of Natural History, Helsinki, Finland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2272-024X
Ricardo Jorge LopescE3C, Center for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Change, Departamento de Biologia Animal, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal.
Bert MeisterGrimma, Germany.
Simone PirrelloArea Avifauna Migratrice (BIO-AVM), Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale (ISPRA), Bologna, Italy.
Kasper ThorupCenter for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, Natural History Museum od Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Simon J ButlerSchool of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK.

Funding

Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic DKRVO 2024-2028/6.INatural Environment Research Council NE/T007354/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Synchronous fluctuations in species' abundance are influenced by synchrony in underlying rates of productivity and survival. However, it remains unclear how rate synchrony varies in space and time, contributes to abundance synchrony, and differs among species. Using long-term annual count (number of adults captured), adult survival and productivity (number of juveniles captured per adult) data for breeding land-birds at ringing sites across Europe, we show that synchrony is strongest and largest scale in productivity and weakest and smallest scale in counts. However, counts fluctuate more synchronously with survival than they do with productivity. These patterns hold for species which do not migrate or only migrate within Europe (European-residents) and those migrating to sub-Saharan Africa (subSaharan-migrants), but the periodicity of productivity and survival synchrony is longer in European-residents than in subSaharan-migrants. This suggests that survival and productivity synchrony may interact to weaken abundance fluctuations but are influenced by environmental drivers operating over differing timescales in European-resident and subSaharan-migrant species.

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Animal MigrationBirdsAfrica South of the SaharaAnimalsEuropePopulation DensityPopulation Dynamicsannual variationavian ecologyconservationmigratory birdspopulation abundanceproductivitysurvival rates

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