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Juliana Dänhardt. Foto.

Juliana Dänhardt

Forskningskoordinator

Juliana Dänhardt. Foto.

Population specific annual cycles and migration strategies in a leap-frog migrant

Författare

  • Linus Hedh
  • Juliana Dänhardt
  • Anders Hedenström

Summary, in English

A common migratory pattern in birds is that northerly breeding populations migrate to more southerly non-breeding sites compared to southerly breeding populations (leap-frog migration). Not only do populations experience differences in migration distances, but also different environmental conditions, which may vary spatiotemporally within their annual cycles, creating distinctive selective pressures and migratory strategies. Information about such adaptations is important to understand migratory drivers and evolution of migration patterns. We use light-level geolocators and citizen science data on regional spring arrivals to compare two populations of common ringed plover Charadrius hiaticula breeding at different latitudes. We (1) describe and characterize the annual cycles and (2) test predictions regarding speed and timing of migration. The northern breeding population (NBP) wintered in Africa and the southern (SBP) mainly in Europe. The annual cycles were shifted temporally so that the NBP was always later in all stages. The SBP spent more than twice as long time in the breeding area, but there was no difference in winter. The NBP spent more time on migration in general. Spring migration speed was lower in the SBP compared to autumn speed of both populations, and there was no difference in autumn and spring speed in the NBP. We also found a larger variation in spring arrival times across years in the SBP. This suggests that a complex interaction of population specific timing and variation of breeding onset, length of breeding season, and proximity to the breeding area shape the annual cycle and migratory strategies. Significance statement: Migration distance, climate, and the resulting composition of the annual cycle are expected to influence migration strategies and timing in birds. Testing theories regarding migration behaviours are challenging, and intraspecific comparisons over the full annual cycle are still rare. Here we compare the spatiotemporal distributions of two latitudinally separated populations of common ringed plovers using light-level geolocators. We found that there was a larger long-term variation in first arrival dates and that migration speed was slower only in spring in a temperate, short-distance migratory population, compared to an Arctic, long-distance migratory population. This suggests that a complex interaction of population specific timing and variation of breeding onset, length of breeding season and proximity to the breeding area shape the annual cycle and migratory behaviours.

Avdelning/ar

  • CAnMove - Centrum för forskning om djurs spridning och flyttning
  • Flyglabbet
  • Evolutionär ekologi
  • Centrum för miljö- och klimatvetenskap (CEC)
  • BECC: Biodiversity and Ecosystem services in a Changing Climate

Publiceringsår

2022-01

Språk

Engelska

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volym

76

Issue

1

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Springer

Ämne

  • Evolutionary Biology

Nyckelord

  • Common ringed plover
  • Geolocator
  • Migration
  • Speed
  • Timing

Status

Published

Forskningsgrupp

  • CAnMove - Centre for Animal Movement Research
  • Animal Flight Lab

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 0340-5443