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Mikula P, Askeyev OV, Askeyev AO, Askeyev IV, Morelli F, Menzel A, Tryjanowski P. Climate change is associated with asynchrony in arrival between two sympatric cuckoos and both host arrival and prey emergence. ROYAL SOCIETY OPEN SCIENCE 2024; 11:231691. [PMID: 38234437 PMCID: PMC10792391 DOI: 10.1098/rsos.231691] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/06/2023] [Accepted: 12/21/2023] [Indexed: 01/19/2024]
Abstract
Matching the timing of spring arrival to the breeding grounds with hosts and prey is crucial for migratory brood parasites such as cuckoos. Previous studies have focused mostly on phenological mismatch between a single cuckoo species and its hosts but information regarding climate-driven mismatch between multiple sympatric cuckoo species and their hosts and invertebrate prey is still lacking. Here, we analysed long-term data (1988-2023) on the first arrival date of two declining migratory cuckoo species and their 14 migratory host species breeding in sympatry and prey emergence date in Tatarstan (southeast Russia). We found that the common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus; wintering in Africa) generally arrived on breeding grounds earlier than the oriental cuckoo (Cuculus optatus; wintering in southeast Asia and Australia). Both cuckoos have advanced their arrival dates over 36 years but less than their hosts, potentially resulting in an increasing arrival mismatch between cuckoos and their hosts. Moreover, cuckoo arrival advanced less than the emergence date of their prey over time. These observations indicate that climate change may disrupt co-fluctuation in the phenology of important life stages between multiple sympatric brood parasites, their hosts and prey with potential cascading consequences for population dynamics of involved species.
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- Peter Mikula
- TUM School of Life Sciences, Ecoclimatology, Technical University of Munich, 85354 Freising, Germany
- Institute for Advanced Study, Technical University of Munich, 85748 Garching, Germany
- Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Kamýcká 129, 16500 Prague, Czech Republic
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- Biomonitoring Laboratory, Institute of Problems in Ecology and Mineral Wealth, Tatarstan Academy of Sciences, Daurskaya Strasse 28, Kazan 420087, Tatarstan Republic, Russia
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- Biomonitoring Laboratory, Institute of Problems in Ecology and Mineral Wealth, Tatarstan Academy of Sciences, Daurskaya Strasse 28, Kazan 420087, Tatarstan Republic, Russia
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- Biomonitoring Laboratory, Institute of Problems in Ecology and Mineral Wealth, Tatarstan Academy of Sciences, Daurskaya Strasse 28, Kazan 420087, Tatarstan Republic, Russia
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- Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Kamýcká 129, 16500 Prague, Czech Republic
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- TUM School of Life Sciences, Ecoclimatology, Technical University of Munich, 85354 Freising, Germany
- Institute for Advanced Study, Technical University of Munich, 85748 Garching, Germany
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- TUM School of Life Sciences, Ecoclimatology, Technical University of Munich, 85354 Freising, Germany
- Institute for Advanced Study, Technical University of Munich, 85748 Garching, Germany
- Institute of Zoology, Poznań University of Life Sciences, Wojska Polskiego 71 C, 60-625 Poznań, Poland
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Avilés JM, Precioso M, Molina‐Morales M, Martínez JG. Early‐life environmental conditions influence parasitism at adulthood and life‐history of a cuckoo host. OIKOS 2021. [DOI: 10.1111/oik.08876] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Jesús Miguel Avilés
- Depto de Ecología Funcional y Evolutiva, Estación Experimental de Zonas Áridas, CSIC Almería Spain
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- Depto de Zoología, Facultad de Ciencias, Univ. de Granada Granada Spain
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Host-parasite interaction augments climate change effect in an avian brood parasite, the lesser cuckoo Cuculus poliocephalus. Glob Ecol Conserv 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.gecco.2020.e00976] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Molina-Morales M, Precioso M, Avilés JM, Martínez JG, Parejo D. Great spotted cuckoos disregard information on conspecific breeding success while parasitizing magpie hosts. Behav Ecol 2019. [DOI: 10.1093/beheco/ary201] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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- Mercedes Molina-Morales
- Departamento de Anatomía, Biología Celular y Zoología. Universidad de Extremadura, Avenida de Elvas S/N, Badajoz, Spain
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- Departamento de Zoología, Universidad de Granada, Avenida de Fuente Nueva S/N, Granada, Spain
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- Departamento de Ecología Funcional y Evolutiva, EEZA (CSIC), Ctra de Sacramento S/N, La Cañada de San Urbano, Almería, Spain
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- Departamento de Zoología, Universidad de Granada, Avenida de Fuente Nueva S/N, Granada, Spain
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- Departamento de Anatomía, Biología Celular y Zoología. Universidad de Extremadura, Avenida de Elvas S/N, Badajoz, Spain
- Departamento de Ecología Funcional y Evolutiva, EEZA (CSIC), Ctra de Sacramento S/N, La Cañada de San Urbano, Almería, Spain
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Ramakers JJC, Gienapp P, Visser ME. Phenological mismatch drives selection on elevation, but not on slope, of breeding time plasticity in a wild songbird. Evolution 2019; 73:175-187. [PMID: 30556587 PMCID: PMC6519030 DOI: 10.1111/evo.13660] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/16/2018] [Accepted: 11/16/2018] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Phenotypic plasticity is an important mechanism for populations to respond to fluctuating environments, yet may be insufficient to adapt to a directionally changing environment. To study whether plasticity can evolve under current climate change, we quantified selection and genetic variation in both the elevation (RNE ) and slope (RNS ) of the breeding time reaction norm in a long-term (1973-2016) study population of great tits (Parus major). The optimal RNE (the caterpillar biomass peak date regressed against the temperature used as cue by great tits) changed over time, whereas the optimal RNS did not. Concordantly, we found strong directional selection on RNE , but not RNS , of egg-laying date in the second third of the study period; this selection subsequently waned, potentially due to increased between-year variability in optimal laying dates. We found individual and additive genetic variation in RNE but, contrary to previous studies on our population, not in RNS . The predicted and observed evolutionary change in RNE was, however, marginal, due to low heritability and the sex limitation of laying date. We conclude that adaptation to climate change can only occur via micro-evolution of RNE, but this will necessarily be slow and potentially hampered by increased variability in phenotypic optima.
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- Jip J. C. Ramakers
- Department of Animal EcologyNetherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO‐KNAW)6700AB WageningenThe Netherlands
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- Department of Animal EcologyNetherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO‐KNAW)6700AB WageningenThe Netherlands
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- Department of Animal EcologyNetherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO‐KNAW)6700AB WageningenThe Netherlands
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Expósito-Granados M, Parejo D, Martínez JG, Precioso M, Molina-Morales M, Avilés JM. Host nest site choice depends on risk of cuckoo parasitism in magpie hosts. Behav Ecol 2017. [DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arx113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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