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Le Clercq LS, Bazzi G, Ferrer Obiol J, Cecere JG, Gianfranceschi L, Grobler JP, Kotzé A, Riutort León M, González-Solís J, Rubolini D, Liedvogel M, Dalton DL. Author Correction: Birds of a feather flock together: a dataset for Clock and Adcyap1 genes from migration genetics studies. Sci Data 2024; 11:490. [PMID: 38740754 DOI: 10.1038/s41597-024-03352-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/16/2024] Open
Affiliation(s)
- Louis-Stéphane Le Clercq
- South African National Biodiversity Institute, P.O. Box 754, Pretoria, 0001, South Africa.
- Department of Genetics, University of the Free State, P.O. Box 339, Bloemfontein, 9300, South Africa.
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- Area Avifauna Migratrice, Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale, via Ca' Fornacetta 9, I-40064, Ozzano Emilia, BO, Italy
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- Departament de Genètica, Universitat de Barcelona, Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes, 585, 08007, Barcelona, Spain
- Institut de Recerca de la Biodiversitat (IRBio), Universitat de Barcelona, Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes, 585, 08007, Barcelona, Spain
- Dipartimento di Scienze e Politiche Ambientali, Università degli Studi di Milano, via Celoria 26, Milan, I-20133, Italy
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- Area Avifauna Migratrice, Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale, via Ca' Fornacetta 9, I-40064, Ozzano Emilia, BO, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Bioscienze, Università degli Studi di Milano, via Celoria 26, Milan, I-20133, Italy
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- Department of Genetics, University of the Free State, P.O. Box 339, Bloemfontein, 9300, South Africa
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- South African National Biodiversity Institute, P.O. Box 754, Pretoria, 0001, South Africa
- Department of Genetics, University of the Free State, P.O. Box 339, Bloemfontein, 9300, South Africa
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- Departament de Genètica, Universitat de Barcelona, Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes, 585, 08007, Barcelona, Spain
- Institut de Recerca de la Biodiversitat (IRBio), Universitat de Barcelona, Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes, 585, 08007, Barcelona, Spain
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- Institut de Recerca de la Biodiversitat (IRBio), Universitat de Barcelona, Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes, 585, 08007, Barcelona, Spain
- Departament de Biologia Evolutiva, Universitat de Barcelona, Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes, 585, 08007, Barcelona, Spain
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- Dipartimento di Scienze e Politiche Ambientali, Università degli Studi di Milano, via Celoria 26, Milan, I-20133, Italy
- Istituto di Ricerca sulle Acque, IRSA-CNR, Via del Mulino 19, I-20861, Brugherio, (MB), Italy
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- Max Planck Research Group Behavioural Genomics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, 24306, Plön, Germany
- Institute of Avian Research, An der Vogelwarte 21, 26386, Wilhelmshaven, Germany
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- School of Health and Life Sciences, Teesside University, Middlesbrough, TS1 3BA, UK
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Tremolada P, Saliu F, Winkler A, Carniti CP, Castelli M, Lasagni M, Andò S, Leandri-Breton DJ, Gatt MC, Obiol JF, Parolini M, Nakajima C, Whelan S, Shoji A, Hatch SA, Elliott KH, Cecere JG, Rubolini D. Indigo-dyed cellulose fibers and synthetic polymers in surface-feeding seabird chick regurgitates from the Gulf of Alaska. Mar Pollut Bull 2024; 203:116401. [PMID: 38713925 DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2024.116401] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/24/2024] [Revised: 04/15/2024] [Accepted: 04/18/2024] [Indexed: 05/09/2024]
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We provide evidence of anthropogenic materials ingestion in seabirds from a remote oceanic area, using regurgitates obtained from black-legged kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla) chicks from Middleton Island (Gulf of Alaska, USA). By means of GPS tracking of breeding adults, we identified foraging grounds where anthropogenic materials were most likely ingested. They were mainly located within the continental shelf of the Gulf of Alaska and near the Alaskan coastline. Anthropogenic cellulose fibers showed a high prevalence (85 % occurrence), whereas synthetic polymers (in the micro- and mesoplastics dimensional range) were less frequent (20 %). Most fibers (60 %) were blue and we confirmed the presence of indigo-dyed cellulosic fibers, characteristic of denim fabrics. In terms of mass, contamination levels were 0.077 μg g-1 wet weight and 0.009 μg g-1 wet weight for anthropogenic microfibers and synthetic polymers, respectively. These results represent the only recent report of contamination by anthropogenic fibers in seabirds from the Gulf of Alaska.
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- Paolo Tremolada
- Dipartimento di Scienze e Politiche Ambientali, Università degli Studi di Milano, via Celoria 26, I-20133, Milano, Italy.
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- Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Ambiente e della Terra, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, p.zza della Scienza 1, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze e Politiche Ambientali, Università degli Studi di Milano, via Celoria 26, I-20133, Milano, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze e Politiche Ambientali, Università degli Studi di Milano, via Celoria 26, I-20133, Milano, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze e Politiche Ambientali, Università degli Studi di Milano, via Celoria 26, I-20133, Milano, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Ambiente e della Terra, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, p.zza della Scienza 1, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Ambiente e della Terra, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, p.zza della Scienza 1, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze e Politiche Ambientali, Università degli Studi di Milano, via Celoria 26, I-20133, Milano, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze e Politiche Ambientali, Università degli Studi di Milano, via Celoria 26, I-20133, Milano, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze e Politiche Ambientali, Università degli Studi di Milano, via Celoria 26, I-20133, Milano, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze e Politiche Ambientali, Università degli Studi di Milano, via Celoria 26, I-20133, Milano, Italy
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- Department of Life and Environmental Science, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
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- Institute for Seabird Research and Conservation, Anchorage, AK, USA
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- Department of Life and Environmental Science, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
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- Institute for Seabird Research and Conservation, Anchorage, AK, USA
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- Department of Natural Resource Sciences, McGill University, Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec, Canada
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- Dipartimento di Scienze e Politiche Ambientali, Università degli Studi di Milano, via Celoria 26, I-20133, Milano, Italy
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Le Clercq LS, Bazzi G, Ferrer Obiol J, Cecere JG, Gianfranceschi L, Grobler JP, Kotzé A, Riutort León M, González-Solís J, Rubolini D, Liedvogel M, Dalton DL. Birds of a feather flock together: a dataset for Clock and Adcyap1 genes from migration genetics studies. Sci Data 2023; 10:787. [PMID: 37945571 PMCID: PMC10636037 DOI: 10.1038/s41597-023-02717-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2023] [Accepted: 11/01/2023] [Indexed: 11/12/2023] Open
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Birds in seasonal habitats rely on intricate strategies for optimal timing of migrations. This is governed by environmental cues, including photoperiod. Genetic factors affecting intrinsic timekeeping mechanisms, such as circadian clock genes, have been explored, yielding inconsistent findings with potential lineage-dependency. To clarify this evidence, a systematic review and phylogenetic reanalysis was done. This descriptor outlines the methodology for sourcing, screening, and processing relevant literature and data. PRISMA guidelines were followed, ultimately including 66 studies, with 34 focusing on candidate genes at the genotype-phenotype interface. Studies were clustered using bibliographic coupling and citation network analysis, alongside scientometric analyses by publication year and location. Data was retrieved for allele data from databases, article supplements, and direct author communications. The dataset, version 1.0.2, encompasses data from 52 species, with 46 species for the Clock gene and 43 for the Adcyap1 gene. This dataset, featuring data from over 8000 birds, constitutes the most extensive cross-species collection for these candidate genes, used in studies investigating gene polymorphisms and seasonal bird migration.
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- Louis-Stéphane Le Clercq
- South African National Biodiversity Institute, P.O. Box 754, Pretoria, 0001, South Africa.
- Department of Genetics, University of the Free State, P.O. Box 339, Bloemfontein, 9300, South Africa.
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- Area Avifauna Migratrice, Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale, via Ca' Fornacetta 9, I-40064, Ozzano Emilia, BO, Italy
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- Departament de Genètica, Universitat de Barcelona, Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes, 585, 08007, Barcelona, Spain
- Institut de Recerca de la Biodiversitat (IRBio), Universitat de Barcelona, Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes, 585, 08007, Barcelona, Spain
- Dipartimento di Scienze e Politiche Ambientali, Università degli Studi di Milano, via Celoria 26, Milan, I-20133, Italy
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- Area Avifauna Migratrice, Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale, via Ca' Fornacetta 9, I-40064, Ozzano Emilia, BO, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Bioscienze, Università degli Studi di Milano, via Celoria 26, Milan, I-20133, Italy
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- Department of Genetics, University of the Free State, P.O. Box 339, Bloemfontein, 9300, South Africa
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- South African National Biodiversity Institute, P.O. Box 754, Pretoria, 0001, South Africa
- Department of Genetics, University of the Free State, P.O. Box 339, Bloemfontein, 9300, South Africa
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- Departament de Genètica, Universitat de Barcelona, Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes, 585, 08007, Barcelona, Spain
- Institut de Recerca de la Biodiversitat (IRBio), Universitat de Barcelona, Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes, 585, 08007, Barcelona, Spain
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- Institut de Recerca de la Biodiversitat (IRBio), Universitat de Barcelona, Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes, 585, 08007, Barcelona, Spain
- Departament de Biologia Evolutiva, Universitat de Barcelona, Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes, 585, 08007, Barcelona, Spain
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- Dipartimento di Scienze e Politiche Ambientali, Università degli Studi di Milano, via Celoria 26, Milan, I-20133, Italy
- Istituto di Ricerca sulle Acque, IRSA-CNR, Via del Mulino 19, I-20861, Brugherio, (MB), Italy
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- Max Planck Research Group Behavioural Genomics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, 24306, Plön, Germany
- Institute of Avian Research, An der Vogelwarte 21, 26386, Wilhelmshaven, Germany
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- School of Health and Life Sciences, Teesside University, Middlesbrough, TS1 3BA, UK
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Corregidor-Castro A, Morinay J, McKinlay SE, Ramellini S, Assandri G, Bazzi G, Glavaschi A, De Capua EL, Grapputo A, Romano A, Morganti M, Cecere JG, Pilastro A, Rubolini D. Experimental nest cooling reveals dramatic effects of heatwaves on reproduction in a Mediterranean bird of prey. Glob Chang Biol 2023; 29:5552-5567. [PMID: 37469036 DOI: 10.1111/gcb.16888] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/05/2023] [Revised: 06/15/2023] [Accepted: 06/23/2023] [Indexed: 07/21/2023]
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Future climatic scenarios forecast increases in average temperatures as well as in the frequency, duration, and intensity of extreme events, such as heatwaves. Whereas behavioral adjustments can buffer direct physiological and fitness costs of exposure to excessive temperature in wild animals, these may prove more difficult during specific life stages when vagility is reduced (e.g., early developmental stages). By means of a nest cooling experiment, we tested the effects of extreme temperatures on different stages of reproduction in a cavity-nesting Mediterranean bird of prey, the lesser kestrel (Falco naumanni), facing a recent increase in the frequency of heatwaves during its breeding season. Nest temperature in a group of nest boxes placed on roof terraces was reduced by shading them from direct sunlight in 2 consecutive years (2021 and 2022). We then compared hatching failure, mortality, and nestling morphology between shaded and non-shaded (control) nest boxes. Nest temperature in control nest boxes was on average 3.9°C higher than in shaded ones during heatwaves, that is, spells of extreme air temperature (>37°C for ≥2 consecutive days) which hit the study area during the nestling-rearing phase in both years. Hatching failure markedly increased with increasing nest temperature, rising above 50% when maximum nest temperatures exceeded 44°C. Nestlings from control nest boxes showed higher mortality during heatwaves (55% vs. 10% in shaded nest boxes) and those that survived further showed impaired morphological growth (body mass and skeletal size). Hence, heatwaves occurring during the breeding period can have both strong lethal and sublethal impacts on different components of avian reproduction, from egg hatching to nestling growth. More broadly, these findings suggest that the projected future increases of summer temperatures and heatwave frequency in the Mediterranean basin and elsewhere in temperate areas may threaten the local persistence of even relatively warm-adapted species.
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- Alejandro Corregidor-Castro
- Dipartimento di Biologia, Università degli Studi di Padova, Padova, Italy
- Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche-Istituto di Ricerca sulle Acque (CNR-IRSA), Brugherio, Italy
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- Area Avifauna Migratrice, Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale (ISPRA), Bologna, Italy
- Centre for Biodiversity Dynamics, Institutt for Biologi, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway
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- Dipartimento di Scienze e Politiche Ambientali, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze e Politiche Ambientali, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy
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- Area Avifauna Migratrice, Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale (ISPRA), Bologna, Italy
- Department of Life Sciences and System Biology, University of Turin, Turin, Italy
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- Area Avifauna Migratrice, Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale (ISPRA), Bologna, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Biologia, Università degli Studi di Padova, Padova, Italy
- National Biodiversity Future Centre, Palermo, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze e Politiche Ambientali, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy
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- Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche-Istituto di Ricerca sulle Acque (CNR-IRSA), Brugherio, Italy
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- Area Avifauna Migratrice, Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale (ISPRA), Bologna, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Biologia, Università degli Studi di Padova, Padova, Italy
- National Biodiversity Future Centre, Palermo, Italy
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- Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche-Istituto di Ricerca sulle Acque (CNR-IRSA), Brugherio, Italy
- Dipartimento di Scienze e Politiche Ambientali, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy
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Scridel D, Pirrello S, Imperio S, Cecere JG, Albanese G, Andreotti A, Arveda G, Borghesi F, La Gioia G, Massa L, Mengoni C, Micheloni P, Mucci N, Nardelli R, Nissardi S, Volponi S, Zucca C, Serra L. Weather, sex and body condition affect post-fledging migration behaviour of the greater flamingo Phoenicopterus roseus. Mov Ecol 2023; 11:51. [PMID: 37612593 PMCID: PMC10464070 DOI: 10.1186/s40462-023-00409-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2023] [Accepted: 06/29/2023] [Indexed: 08/25/2023]
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BACKGROUND Understanding which intrinsic and extrinsic factors dictate decision-making processes such as leaving the natal area or not (migratory vs resident strategy), departure time, and non-breeding destination are key-issues in movement ecology. This is particularly relevant for a partially migratory meta-population in which only some individuals migrate. METHODS We investigated these decision making-processes for 40 juvenile greater flamingos Phoenicopterus roseus fledged in three Mediterranean colonies and equipped with GPS-GSM devices. RESULTS Contrary to the body size and the dominance hypotheses, juveniles in better body condition were more likely to migrate than those in worse conditions, which opted for a residence strategy. Flamingo probability of departure was not associated with an increase in local wind intensity, but rather with the presence of tailwinds with departure limited to night-time mostly when the wind direction aligned with the migratory destination. Moreover, a positive interaction between tailwind speed and migration distance suggested that juveniles opted for stronger winds when initiating long-distance journeys. In contrast to previous studies, the prevailing seasonal winds were only partially aligned with the migratory destination, suggesting that other factors (e.g., adults experience in mix-aged flocks, availability of suitable foraging areas en route, density-dependence processes) may be responsible for the distribution observed at the end of the first migratory movement. We found potential evidence of sex-biased timing of migration with females departing on average 10 days later and flying ca. 10 km/h faster than males. Female flight speed, but not male one, was positively influenced by tailwinds, a pattern most likely explained by sexual differences in mechanical power requirements for flight (males being ca. 20% larger than females). Furthermore, juveniles considerably reduced their flight speeds after 400 km from departure, highlighting a physiological threshold, potentially linked to mortality risks when performing long-distance non-stop movements. CONCLUSION These results suggest that not only intrinsic factors such as individual conditions and sex, but also extrinsic factors like weather, play critical roles in triggering migratory behaviour in a partially migratory metapopulation. Furthermore, social factors, including conspecific experience, should be taken into consideration when evaluating the adaptive processes underlying migration phenology, flight performance, and final destination selection.
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- Davide Scridel
- Area Avifauna Migratrice (BIO-AVM), Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale (ISPRA), via Ca' Fornacetta 9, 40064, Ozzano dell'Emilia, BO, Italy.
- CNR-IRSA National Research Council-Water Research Institute, via del Mulino 19, 20861, Brugherio, MB, Italy.
- Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste, 34127, Trieste, TS, Italy.
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- Area Avifauna Migratrice (BIO-AVM), Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale (ISPRA), via Ca' Fornacetta 9, 40064, Ozzano dell'Emilia, BO, Italy
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- Area Avifauna Migratrice (BIO-AVM), Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale (ISPRA), via Ca' Fornacetta 9, 40064, Ozzano dell'Emilia, BO, Italy
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- Area Avifauna Migratrice (BIO-AVM), Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale (ISPRA), via Ca' Fornacetta 9, 40064, Ozzano dell'Emilia, BO, Italy
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- Area Avifauna Migratrice (BIO-AVM), Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale (ISPRA), via Ca' Fornacetta 9, 40064, Ozzano dell'Emilia, BO, Italy
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- Servizio Tutela Ambiente e Territorio, Ufficio Zone Naturali, Comune di Ravenna, via Berlinguer 30, 48121, Ravenna, RA, Italy
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- Associazione Ornitologia Mediterranea, via Saponaro 7, 73100, Lecce, LE, Italy
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- Parco Naturale Regionale Molentargius Saline, via La Palma n 9, 09126, Cagliari, CA, Italy
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- Area per la Genetica della Conservazione (BIO-CGE), Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca. Ambientale (ISPRA), via Ca' Fornacetta 9, 40064, Ozzano dell'Emilia, BO, Italy
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- Area Avifauna Migratrice (BIO-AVM), Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale (ISPRA), via Ca' Fornacetta 9, 40064, Ozzano dell'Emilia, BO, Italy
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- Area per la Genetica della Conservazione (BIO-CGE), Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca. Ambientale (ISPRA), via Ca' Fornacetta 9, 40064, Ozzano dell'Emilia, BO, Italy
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- Area Avifauna Migratrice (BIO-AVM), Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale (ISPRA), via Ca' Fornacetta 9, 40064, Ozzano dell'Emilia, BO, Italy
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- Anthus s.n.c., via Luigi Canepa 22, 09129, Cagliari, CA, Italy
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- Area per i pareri tecnici e per le strategie di conservazione e gestione del patrimonio faunistico nazionale (BIO-CFN), Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale (ISPRA), via Ca' Fornacetta 9, 40064, Ozzano dell'Emilia, BO, Italy
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- Anthus s.n.c., via Luigi Canepa 22, 09129, Cagliari, CA, Italy
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- Area Avifauna Migratrice (BIO-AVM), Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale (ISPRA), via Ca' Fornacetta 9, 40064, Ozzano dell'Emilia, BO, Italy
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Sozzoni M, Ferrer Obiol J, Formenti G, Tigano A, Paris JR, Balacco JR, Jain N, Tilley T, Collins J, Sims Y, Wood J, Benowitz-Fredericks ZM, Field KA, Seyoum E, Gatt MC, Léandri-Breton DJ, Nakajima C, Whelan S, Gianfranceschi L, Hatch SA, Elliott KH, Shoji A, Cecere JG, Jarvis ED, Pilastro A, Rubolini D. A Chromosome-Level Reference Genome for the Black-Legged Kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla), a Declining Circumpolar Seabird. Genome Biol Evol 2023; 15:evad153. [PMID: 37590950 PMCID: PMC10457150 DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evad153] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2023] [Revised: 08/02/2023] [Accepted: 08/09/2023] [Indexed: 08/19/2023] Open
Abstract
Amidst the current biodiversity crisis, the availability of genomic resources for declining species can provide important insights into the factors driving population decline. In the early 1990s, the black-legged kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla), a pelagic gull widely distributed across the arctic, subarctic, and temperate zones, suffered a steep population decline following an abrupt warming of sea surface temperature across its distribution range and is currently listed as Vulnerable by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. Kittiwakes have long been the focus for field studies of physiology, ecology, and ecotoxicology and are primary indicators of fluctuating ecological conditions in arctic and subarctic marine ecosystems. We present a high-quality chromosome-level reference genome and annotation for the black-legged kittiwake using a combination of Pacific Biosciences HiFi sequencing, Bionano optical maps, Hi-C reads, and RNA-Seq data. The final assembly spans 1.35 Gb across 32 chromosomes, with a scaffold N50 of 88.21 Mb and a BUSCO completeness of 97.4%. This genome assembly substantially improves the quality of a previous draft genome, showing an approximately 5× increase in contiguity and a more complete annotation. Using this new chromosome-level reference genome and three more chromosome-level assemblies of Charadriiformes, we uncover several lineage-specific chromosome fusions and fissions, but find no shared rearrangements, suggesting that interchromosomal rearrangements have been commonplace throughout the diversification of Charadriiformes. This new high-quality genome assembly will enable population genomic, transcriptomic, and phenotype-genotype association studies in a widely studied sentinel species, which may provide important insights into the impacts of global change on marine systems.
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- Marcella Sozzoni
- Department of Biology, University of Florence, Sesto Fiorentino, Florence, Italy
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- Department of Environmental Science and Policy, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
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- Vertebrate Genome Laboratory, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York, USA
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- Department of Biology, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
- Department of Biology, The University of British Columbia, Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada
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- Department of Life and Environmental Sciences, Marche Polytechnic University, Ancona, Italy
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- Vertebrate Genome Laboratory, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York, USA
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- Vertebrate Genome Laboratory, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York, USA
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- Vertebrate Genome Laboratory, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York, USA
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- Tree of Life, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Tree of Life, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Tree of Life, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Biology, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Biology, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Environmental Science and Policy, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Natural Resource Sciences, McGill University, Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec, Canada
- Centre d’Études Biologiques de Chizé (CEBC), UMR 7372 - CNRS & Université de La Rochelle, Villiers-en-Bois, France
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- Department of Life and Environmental Science, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
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- Department of Natural Resource Sciences, McGill University, Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec, Canada
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- Institute for Seabird Research and Conservation, Anchorage, Alaska, USA
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- Department of Natural Resource Sciences, McGill University, Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec, Canada
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- Department of Life and Environmental Science, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
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- Vertebrate Genome Laboratory, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York, USA
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, Maryland, USA
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- Department of Environmental Science and Policy, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
- Water Research Institute, IRSA-CNR, Brugherio, Monza and Brianza, Italy
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Le Clercq LS, Bazzi G, Cecere JG, Gianfranceschi L, Grobler JP, Kotzé A, Rubolini D, Liedvogel M, Dalton DL. Time trees and clock genes: a systematic review and comparative analysis of contemporary avian migration genetics. Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc 2023; 98:1051-1080. [PMID: 36879518 DOI: 10.1111/brv.12943] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/06/2022] [Revised: 02/16/2023] [Accepted: 02/20/2023] [Indexed: 03/08/2023]
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Timing is a crucial aspect for survival and reproduction in seasonal environments leading to carefully scheduled annual programs of migration in many species. But what are the exact mechanisms through which birds (class: Aves) can keep track of time, anticipate seasonal changes, and adapt their behaviour? One proposed mechanism regulating annual behaviour is the circadian clock, controlled by a highly conserved set of genes, collectively called 'clock genes' which are well established in controlling the daily rhythmicity of physiology and behaviour. Due to diverse migration patterns observed within and among species, in a seemingly endogenously programmed manner, the field of migration genetics has sought and tested several candidate genes within the clock circuitry that may underlie the observed differences in breeding and migration behaviour. Among others, length polymorphisms within genes such as Clock and Adcyap1 have been hypothesised to play a putative role, although association and fitness studies in various species have yielded mixed results. To contextualise the existing body of data, here we conducted a systematic review of all published studies relating polymorphisms in clock genes to seasonality in a phylogenetically and taxonomically informed manner. This was complemented by a standardised comparative re-analysis of candidate gene polymorphisms of 76 bird species, of which 58 are migrants and 18 are residents, along with population genetics analyses for 40 species with available allele data. We tested genetic diversity estimates, used Mantel tests for spatial genetic analyses, and evaluated relationships between candidate gene allele length and population averages for geographic range (breeding- and non-breeding latitude), migration distance, timing of migration, taxonomic relationships, and divergence times. Our combined analysis provided evidence (i) of a putative association between Clock gene variation and autumn migration as well as a putative association between Adcyap1 gene variation and spring migration in migratory species; (ii) that these candidate genes are not diagnostic markers to distinguish migratory from sedentary birds; and (iii) of correlated variability in both genes with divergence time, potentially reflecting ancestrally inherited genotypes rather than contemporary changes driven by selection. These findings highlight a tentative association between these candidate genes and migration attributes as well as genetic constraints on evolutionary adaptation.
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- Louis-Stéphane Le Clercq
- South African National Biodiversity Institute, P.O. Box 754, Pretoria, 0001, South Africa
- Department of Genetics, University of the Free State, PO Box 339, Bloemfontein, 9300, South Africa
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- Area Avifauna Migratrice, Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale, via Ca' Fornacetta 9, Ozzano Emilia (BO), I-40064, Italy
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- Area Avifauna Migratrice, Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale, via Ca' Fornacetta 9, Ozzano Emilia (BO), I-40064, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Bioscienze, Università degli Studi di Milano, via Celoria 26, Milan, I-20133, Italy
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- Department of Genetics, University of the Free State, PO Box 339, Bloemfontein, 9300, South Africa
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- South African National Biodiversity Institute, P.O. Box 754, Pretoria, 0001, South Africa
- Department of Genetics, University of the Free State, PO Box 339, Bloemfontein, 9300, South Africa
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- Dipartimento di Scienze e Politiche Ambientali, Università degli Studi di Milano, via Celoria 26, Milan, I-20133, Italy
- Istituto di Ricerca sulle Acque, IRSA-CNR, Via del Mulino 19, Brugherio (MB), I-20861, Italy
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- Max Planck Research Group Behavioral Genomics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Plön, 24306, Germany
- Institute of Avian Research, An der Vogelwarte 21, Wilhelmshaven, 26386, Germany
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- School of Health and Life Sciences, Teesside University, Middlesbrough, TS1 3BA, UK
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Ambrosini R, Imperio S, Cecere JG, Andreotti A, Serra L, Spina F, Fattorini N, Costanzo A. Modelling the timing of migration of a partial migrant bird using ringing and observation data: a case study with the Song Thrush in Italy. Mov Ecol 2023; 11:47. [PMID: 37528451 PMCID: PMC10391980 DOI: 10.1186/s40462-023-00407-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/04/2023] [Accepted: 06/27/2023] [Indexed: 08/03/2023]
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BACKGROUND The study of the timing of migration is fundamental to the understanding of the ecology of many bird species and their response to climate change, and it has important conservation and management implications e.g., for assessing the hunting seasons according to the EU Directive 2009/147/EC (Birds Directive). METHODS We developed a new method for the analysis of ringing data (both first capture and re-encounters) and citizen science observations, to assess the timing of pre- and post-nuptial migration of birds. This method was tested on the Song Thrush Turdus philomelos, using i) the Bird Ringing Database hosted by the ISPRA Italian Ringing Centre from the whole Italian peninsula, the three closest large islands (Sicily, Sardinia and Corsica), and Canton Ticino (Switzerland) and ii) the eBird data for the same study area. RESULTS The results from both datasets consistently showed that pre-nuptial migration starts during the first 10-day period of January (Jan 1) in some central and southern areas of the Italian peninsula, in central Sicily, southern Sardinia, and Corsica. The onset of migration occurs on Jan 2 in the rest of central and southern Italy, Sicily and Sardinia, and western Liguria, while it starts later in the north-eastern Alps, up to Mar 3. The end of post-nuptial migration is more synchronous, occurring on Nov 1 across most of Italy, slightly earlier (Oct 3) in northern Italy and later (Nov 2) in Sicily. The uncertainty of the estimated dates was < 2 days in most cases. CONCLUSION This method represents a novel and valuable tool for the analyses of the timing of migration using ringing and citizen science data and provides an important contribution to the Key Concepts Document of the EU Birds Directive, where migration timings are considered and used to define the hunting period of birds.
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- Roberto Ambrosini
- Dipartimento di Scienze e Politiche Ambientali, Università degli Studi di Milano, Via Celoria 26, Milano, 20133, Italia
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- Area Avifauna Migratrice, Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale (ISPRA), Via Ca' Fornacetta 9, Ozzano dell'Emilia (BO), 40064, Italia
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- Area Avifauna Migratrice, Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale (ISPRA), Via Ca' Fornacetta 9, Ozzano dell'Emilia (BO), 40064, Italia
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- Area Avifauna Migratrice, Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale (ISPRA), Via Ca' Fornacetta 9, Ozzano dell'Emilia (BO), 40064, Italia
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- Area Avifauna Migratrice, Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale (ISPRA), Via Ca' Fornacetta 9, Ozzano dell'Emilia (BO), 40064, Italia
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- Area Avifauna Migratrice, Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale (ISPRA), Via Ca' Fornacetta 9, Ozzano dell'Emilia (BO), 40064, Italia
- , Via della Madonnina, 30 ? I 65010 , Italia, Spoltore (PE), 65010, Italia
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- Dipartimento di Scienze e Politiche Ambientali, Università degli Studi di Milano, Via Celoria 26, Milano, 20133, Italia
- Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università degli Studi di Siena, Via P.A. Mattioli 4, Siena, 53100, Italia
- NBFC, National Biodiversity Future Center, Palermo, Italia
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- Dipartimento di Scienze e Politiche Ambientali, Università degli Studi di Milano, Via Celoria 26, Milano, 20133, Italia.
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Clark BL, Carneiro APB, Pearmain EJ, Rouyer MM, Clay TA, Cowger W, Phillips RA, Manica A, Hazin C, Eriksen M, González-Solís J, Adams J, Albores-Barajas YV, Alfaro-Shigueto J, Alho MS, Araujo DT, Arcos JM, Arnould JPY, Barbosa NJP, Barbraud C, Beard AM, Beck J, Bell EA, Bennet DG, Berlincourt M, Biscoito M, Bjørnstad OK, Bolton M, Booth Jones KA, Borg JJ, Bourgeois K, Bretagnolle V, Bried J, Briskie JV, Brooke MDL, Brownlie KC, Bugoni L, Calabrese L, Campioni L, Carey MJ, Carle RD, Carlile N, Carreiro AR, Catry P, Catry T, Cecere JG, Ceia FR, Cherel Y, Choi CY, Cianchetti-Benedetti M, Clarke RH, Cleeland JB, Colodro V, Congdon BC, Danielsen J, De Pascalis F, Deakin Z, Dehnhard N, Dell'Omo G, Delord K, Descamps S, Dilley BJ, Dinis HA, Dubos J, Dunphy BJ, Emmerson LM, Fagundes AI, Fayet AL, Felis JJ, Fischer JH, Freeman AND, Fromant A, Gaibani G, García D, Gjerdrum C, Gomes ISGC, Forero MG, Granadeiro JP, Grecian WJ, Grémillet D, Guilford T, Hallgrimsson GT, Halpin LR, Hansen ES, Hedd A, Helberg M, Helgason HH, Henry LM, Hereward HFR, Hernandez-Montero M, Hindell MA, Hodum PJ, Imperio S, Jaeger A, Jessopp M, Jodice PGR, Jones CG, Jones CW, Jónsson JE, Kane A, Kapelj S, Kim Y, Kirk H, Kolbeinsson Y, Kraemer PL, Krüger L, Lago P, Landers TJ, Lavers JL, Le Corre M, Leal A, Louzao M, Madeiros J, Magalhães M, Mallory ML, Masello JF, Massa B, Matsumoto S, McDuie F, McFarlane Tranquilla L, Medrano F, Metzger BJ, Militão T, Montevecchi WA, Montone RC, Navarro-Herrero L, Neves VC, Nicholls DG, Nicoll MAC, Norris K, Oppel S, Oro D, Owen E, Padget O, Paiva VH, Pala D, Pereira JM, Péron C, Petry MV, de Pina A, Pina ATM, Pinet P, Pistorius PA, Pollet IL, Porter BJ, Poupart TA, Powell CDL, Proaño CB, Pujol-Casado J, Quillfeldt P, Quinn JL, Raine AF, Raine H, Ramírez I, Ramos JA, Ramos R, Ravache A, Rayner MJ, Reid TA, Robertson GJ, Rocamora GJ, Rollinson DP, Ronconi RA, Rotger A, Rubolini D, Ruhomaun K, Ruiz A, Russell JC, Ryan PG, Saldanha S, Sanz-Aguilar A, Sardà-Serra M, Satgé YG, Sato K, Schäfer WC, Schoombie S, Shaffer SA, Shah N, Shoji A, Shutler D, Sigurðsson IA, Silva MC, Small AE, Soldatini C, Strøm H, Surman CA, Takahashi A, Tatayah VRV, Taylor GA, Thomas RJ, Thompson DR, Thompson PM, Thórarinsson TL, Vicente-Sastre D, Vidal E, Wakefield ED, Waugh SM, Weimerskirch H, Wittmer HU, Yamamoto T, Yoda K, Zavalaga CB, Zino FJ, Dias MP. Global assessment of marine plastic exposure risk for oceanic birds. Nat Commun 2023; 14:3665. [PMID: 37402727 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-38900-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/12/2022] [Accepted: 05/19/2023] [Indexed: 07/06/2023] Open
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Plastic pollution is distributed patchily around the world's oceans. Likewise, marine organisms that are vulnerable to plastic ingestion or entanglement have uneven distributions. Understanding where wildlife encounters plastic is crucial for targeting research and mitigation. Oceanic seabirds, particularly petrels, frequently ingest plastic, are highly threatened, and cover vast distances during foraging and migration. However, the spatial overlap between petrels and plastics is poorly understood. Here we combine marine plastic density estimates with individual movement data for 7137 birds of 77 petrel species to estimate relative exposure risk. We identify high exposure risk areas in the Mediterranean and Black seas, and the northeast Pacific, northwest Pacific, South Atlantic and southwest Indian oceans. Plastic exposure risk varies greatly among species and populations, and between breeding and non-breeding seasons. Exposure risk is disproportionately high for Threatened species. Outside the Mediterranean and Black seas, exposure risk is highest in the high seas and Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZs) of the USA, Japan, and the UK. Birds generally had higher plastic exposure risk outside the EEZ of the country where they breed. We identify conservation and research priorities, and highlight that international collaboration is key to addressing the impacts of marine plastic on wide-ranging species.
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- BirdLife International, Cambridge, UK.
- Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
- British Antarctic Survey, Natural Environment Research Council, Cambridge, UK.
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- Institute of Marine Sciences, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USA
- People and Nature, Environmental Defense Fund, Monterey, CA, USA
- School of Environmental Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
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- University of California, Riverside, CA, USA
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- British Antarctic Survey, Natural Environment Research Council, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- BirdLife International, Cambridge, UK
- The Nature Conservancy, London, UK
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- Institut de Recerca de la Biodiversitat (IRBio), Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
- Departament de Biologia Evolutiva, Ecologia i Ciències Ambientals, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- U.S. Geological Survey, Western Ecological Research Center, Santa Cruz Field Station, Santa Cruz, CA, USA
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- Universidad Autonoma de Baja California Sur - UABCS, La Paz, Mexico
- Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONACYT), Mexico City, Mexico
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- Carrera de Biologia Marina, Universidad Cientifica del Sur, Lima, Peru
- ProDelphinus, Lima, Peru
- University of Exeter, School of Biosciences, Cornwall Campus, Exeter, UK
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- MARE - Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre/ARNET - Aquatic Research Network, Ispa - Instituto Universitário, Lisbon, Portugal
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- Centre d'Etudes Biologiques de Chizé (CEBC), UMR 7372 du CNRS-La Rochelle Université, Villiers-en-Bois, France
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- St. Helena Government, Jamestown, St. Helena, UK
- Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
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- Oikonos Ecosystem Knowledge, Santa Cruz, CA, USA
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
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- Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre (MARE), Museu de História Natural do Funchal, Funchal, Portugal
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- RSPB Centre for Conservation Science, Aberdeen, UK
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- National Museum of Natural History, Mdina, Malta
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- 3 Institut Méditerranéen de Biodiversité et d'Ecologie marine et continentale (IMBE), Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, IRD, Avignon Université, Nouméa, New Caledonia, France
- School of Biological Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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- Centre d'Etudes Biologiques de Chizé (CEBC), UMR 7372 du CNRS-La Rochelle Université, Villiers-en-Bois, France
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- Institute of Marine Sciences - OKEANOS, University of the Azores, 9901-862, Horta, Portugal
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
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- Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Universidade Federal do Rio Grande - FURG, Rio Grande, Brazil
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- Island Conservation Society, Mahé, Seychelles
- Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France
- Island Biodiversity and Conservation Centre, University of Seychelles, Anse Royale, Seychelles
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- MARE - Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre/ARNET - Aquatic Research Network, Ispa - Instituto Universitário, Lisbon, Portugal
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- Department of Environmental Management and Ecology, La Trobe University, Wodonga, NSW, Australia
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- Oikonos Ecosystem Knowledge, Santa Cruz, CA, USA
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- Science, Economics and Insights Division, Department of Planning and Environment, Sydney, Australia
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- University of Coimbra, MARE - Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre/ARNET - Aquatic Research Network, Department of Life Sciences, Coimbra, Portugal
- CIBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, InBIO Laboratório Associado, Campus Agrário de Vairão, Fornelo e Vairão, Portugal
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- MARE - Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre/ARNET - Aquatic Research Network, Ispa - Instituto Universitário, Lisbon, Portugal
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- CESAM - Centro de Estudos do Ambiente e do Mar, Departamento de Biologia Animal, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
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- Area Avifauna Migratrice, Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale (ISPRA), Ozzano dell'Emilia, Italy
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- University of Coimbra, MARE - Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre/ARNET - Aquatic Research Network, Department of Life Sciences, Coimbra, Portugal
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- Centre d'Etudes Biologiques de Chizé (CEBC), UMR 7372 du CNRS-La Rochelle Université, Villiers-en-Bois, France
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- Department of Agriculture, Forestry, and Bioresources, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
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- School of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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- Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
- Australian Antarctic Division, Kingston, TAS, Australia
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- College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University, Cairns, Australia
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- Area Avifauna Migratrice, Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale (ISPRA), Ozzano dell'Emilia, Italy
- Department of Environmental Science and Policy, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
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- Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
- RSPB Centre for Conservation Science, Cambridge, UK
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- Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA), Trondheim, Norway
- Department of Biology, Behavioural Ecology and Ecophysiology Group, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
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- Centre d'Etudes Biologiques de Chizé (CEBC), UMR 7372 du CNRS-La Rochelle Université, Villiers-en-Bois, France
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- FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, DST-NRF Centre of Excellence, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
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- UMR ENTROPIE, Université de la Réunion, Saint-Denis, Réunion, France
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- Institute of Marine Sciences/School of Biological Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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- Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA), Trondheim, Norway
- Department of Biology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- U.S. Geological Survey, Western Ecological Research Center, Santa Cruz Field Station, Santa Cruz, CA, USA
- United States Geological Survey, Santa Cruz, CA, USA
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- Island Conservation Society, Mahé, Seychelles
- Aquatic Unit, Department of Conservation, Wellington, New Zealand
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- Deakin University, Burwood, VIC, Australia
- Centre d'Etudes Biologiques de Chizé (CEBC), UMR 7372 du CNRS-La Rochelle Université, Villiers-en-Bois, France
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- Iniciativa de Recerca de la Biodiversitat de les Illes (IRBI), Pina, Spain
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- Canadian Wildlife Service, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada
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- Departamento de Biología de la Conservación, Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Sevilla, Spain
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- Departamento de Biologia Animal, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa & CESAM - Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies, Lisboa, Portugal
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- CEFE, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, EPHE, IRD, Montpellier, France
- FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, DST-NRF Centre of Excellence, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Department of Biology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia
- Halpin Wildlife Research, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Wildlife Research Division, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Mount Pearl, NC, Canada
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- Østfold University College, Halden, Norway
- BirdLife Norway, Sandgata 30 B, 7012, Trondheim, Norway
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- Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
- British Trust for Ornithology Cymru, Thoday Building, Deiniol Road, Bangor, Wales, UK
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- Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
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- Area Avifauna Migratrice, Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale (ISPRA), Ozzano dell'Emilia, Italy
- Institute of Geosciences and Earth Resources, CNR, Pisa, Italy
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- UMR ENTROPIE, Université de la Réunion, Saint-Denis, Réunion, France
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- School of Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
- MaREI Centre, Environmental Research Institute, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
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- U.S. Geological Survey South Carolina Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, USA
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- Mauritian Wildlife Foundation, Vacoas, Mauritius
- Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust, Trinity, Jersey
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- FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, DST-NRF Centre of Excellence, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
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- University of Iceland's Research Center at Snæfellsnes, Stykkishólmur, Iceland
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- University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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- Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
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- Department of Animal Ecology and Systematics, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Giessen, Germany
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- Instituto Antártico Chileno, Punta Arenas, Chile
- Instituto Milénio Biodiversidad de Ecosistemas Antárticos y Subantárticos (BASE), Santiago, Chile
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- SEO/BirdLife, Barcelona, Spain
- BirdLife Malta, Ta' Xbiex, Malta
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
- Auckland Council, Auckland, New Zealand
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- Tjaltjraak Native Title Aboriginal Corporation, Esperance, WA, Australia
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- UMR ENTROPIE, Université de la Réunion, Saint-Denis, Réunion, France
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- Associação Projecto Vitó, São Filipe, Cabo Verde
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- Dept. of Environment and Natural Resources, Bermuda Government, Flatts, Bermuda
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- Regional Directorate for Marine Policies, Azores Government, Horta, Azores, Portugal
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- Department of Animal Ecology and Systematics, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Giessen, Germany
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- Department of Agriculture, Food and Forest Sciences, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy
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- San Jose State University Research Foundation, San Jose, CA, USA
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- Institut de Recerca de la Biodiversitat (IRBio), Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
- Departament de Biologia Evolutiva, Ecologia i Ciències Ambientals, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Institut de Recerca de la Biodiversitat (IRBio), Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
- Departament de Biologia Evolutiva, Ecologia i Ciències Ambientals, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Institut de Recerca de la Biodiversitat (IRBio), Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
- Departament de Biologia Evolutiva, Ecologia i Ciències Ambientals, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Institute of Marine Sciences - OKEANOS, University of the Azores, 9901-862, Horta, Portugal
- IMAR Instituto do Mar, Universidade dos Açores, Horta, Portugal
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- CEAB-CSIC, Centre d'Estudis Avançats de Blanes, Blanes, Spain
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- RSPB Centre for Conservation Science, Inverness, UK
- The National Trust for Scotland, Balnain House, Huntly Street, Inverness, UK
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- Department of Biology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- University of Coimbra, MARE - Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre/ARNET - Aquatic Research Network, Department of Life Sciences, Coimbra, Portugal
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- Parco naturale Regionale di Porto Conte, Alghero, Italy
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- University of Coimbra, MARE - Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre/ARNET - Aquatic Research Network, Department of Life Sciences, Coimbra, Portugal
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- Laboratoire de Biologie des Organismes et Ecosystèmes Aquatiques (UMR BOREA) - Muséum national d'Histoire Naturelle (MNHN), CNRS, IRD, SU, UCN, UA, Paris, France
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- Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos - UNISINOS, São Leopoldo, Brazil
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- Université de La Réunion, Saint-Denis, Réunion, France
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- Marine Apex Predator Research Unit (MAPRU), Department of Zoology, Institute for Coastal and Marine Research, Nelson Mandela University, Port Elizabeth, South Africa
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- Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Puerto Ayora, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador
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- Institut de Recerca de la Biodiversitat (IRBio), Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
- Departament de Biologia Evolutiva, Ecologia i Ciències Ambientals, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Animal Ecology and Systematics, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Giessen, Germany
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- School of BEES, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
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- Archipelago Research and Conservation, Kalaheo, HI, USA
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- Archipelago Research and Conservation, Kalaheo, HI, USA
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- Convention on Migratory Species (CMS), Bonn, Germany
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- University of Coimbra, MARE - Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre/ARNET - Aquatic Research Network, Department of Life Sciences, Coimbra, Portugal
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- Institut de Recerca de la Biodiversitat (IRBio), Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
- Departament de Biologia Evolutiva, Ecologia i Ciències Ambientals, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- UMR ENTROPIE (IRD, Université de La Réunion, CNRS, Université de La Nouvelle-Calédonie, Ifremer), Centre IRD Nouméa, Nouméa, New Caledonia, France
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- Island Conservation Society, Mahé, Seychelles
- Island Biodiversity and Conservation Centre, University of Seychelles, Anse Royale, Seychelles
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- FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, DST-NRF Centre of Excellence, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Canadian Wildlife Service, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada
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- Animal Demography and Ecology Unit (GEDA), IMEDEA (CSIC-UIB), Esporles, Spain
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- Dipartimento di Scienze e Politiche Ambientali, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italy
- Istituto di Ricerca sulle Acque - Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (IRSA-CNR), Brugherio, Italy
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- National Parks and Parks Conservation Service, Reduit, Mauritius
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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- FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, DST-NRF Centre of Excellence, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Institut de Recerca de la Biodiversitat (IRBio), Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
- Departament de Biologia Evolutiva, Ecologia i Ciències Ambientals, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Animal Demography and Ecology Unit (GEDA), IMEDEA (CSIC-UIB), Esporles, Spain
- University of Balearic Islands, Palma, Spain
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- Institut de Recerca de la Biodiversitat (IRBio), Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
- Departament de Biologia Evolutiva, Ecologia i Ciències Ambientals, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Forestry and Environmental Conservation, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, USA
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- Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa City, Japan
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- Department of Animal Ecology and Systematics, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Giessen, Germany
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- FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, DST-NRF Centre of Excellence, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Biological Sciences, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA, USA
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- cE3c - Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Evolutionary Changes, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
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- CICESE - Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada - Unidad La Paz, La Paz, Mexico
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- National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Ltd, Wellington, New Zealand
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- Institut de Recerca de la Biodiversitat (IRBio), Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
- Departament de Biologia Evolutiva, Ecologia i Ciències Ambientals, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- UMR ENTROPIE (IRD, UR, UNC, CNRS, IFREMER), Nouméa, New Caledonia, France
- UMR IMBE (IRD, AMU, CNRS, UAPV), Nouméa, France
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- Centre d'Etudes Biologiques de Chizé (CEBC), UMR 7372 du CNRS-La Rochelle Université, Villiers-en-Bois, France
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- School of Biological Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
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- Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
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- BirdLife International, Cambridge, UK
- cE3c - Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Evolutionary Changes, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
- CHANGE - Global Change and Sustainability Institute, Departamento de Biologia Animal, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
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Romano A, Morganti M, Assandri G, Bazzi G, Corregidor-Castro A, Morinay J, Cecere JG, Pilastro A, Rubolini D. Sibling competition for food and kin selection in nestlings of a colonial raptor. Anim Behav 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2022.10.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Morera‐Pujol V, Catry P, Magalhães M, Péron C, Reyes‐González JM, Granadeiro JP, Militão T, Dias MP, Oro D, Dell'Omo G, Müller M, Paiva VH, Metzger B, Neves V, Navarro J, Karris G, Xirouchakis S, Cecere JG, Zamora‐López A, Forero MG, Ouni R, Romdhane MS, De Felipe F, Zajková Z, Cruz‐Flores M, Grémillet D, González‐Solís J, Ramos R. Methods to detect spatial biases in tracking studies caused by differential representativeness of individuals, populations and time. DIVERS DISTRIB 2022. [DOI: 10.1111/ddi.13642] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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- Virginia Morera‐Pujol
- Departament de Biologia Evolutiva, Ecologia i Ciències Ambientals, Facultat de Biologia Universitat de Barcelona (UB) Barcelona Spain
- Institut de Recerca de la Biodiversitat (IRBio) Universitat de Barcelona (UB) Barcelona Spain
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- MARE ‐ Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre ISPA‐Instituto Universitário Lisbon Portugal
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- Regional Secretariat for the Sea, Science and Technology Regional Directorate for Sea Affairs (DRAM) Horta Portugal
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- Laboratoire de Biologie des Organismes et Ecosystèmes Aquatiques (UMR BOREA) MNHN, CNRS, IRD, SU, UCN, UA Paris France
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- Departament de Biologia Evolutiva, Ecologia i Ciències Ambientals, Facultat de Biologia Universitat de Barcelona (UB) Barcelona Spain
- Institut de Recerca de la Biodiversitat (IRBio) Universitat de Barcelona (UB) Barcelona Spain
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- Departamento de Biologia Animal, CESAM, Faculdade de Ciências Universidade de Lisboa Lisboa Portugal
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- Departament de Biologia Evolutiva, Ecologia i Ciències Ambientals, Facultat de Biologia Universitat de Barcelona (UB) Barcelona Spain
- Institut de Recerca de la Biodiversitat (IRBio) Universitat de Barcelona (UB) Barcelona Spain
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- Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes (cE3c) & CHANGE (Global Change and Sustainability Institute). Departamento de Biologia Animal Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa Lisboa Portugal
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- Centre d'Estudis Avançats de Blanes (CSIC) Blanes Spain
- IMEDEA (CSIC‐UIB) Esporles Spain
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- Department of Natural Resources Science University of Rhode Island Kingston Rhode Island USA
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- Department of Life Sciences, MARE ‐ Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre/ARNET ‐ Aquatic Research Network University of Coimbra Coimbra Portugal
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- Institute of Marine Sciences ‐ Okeanos University of the Azores Horta Portugal
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- Institut de Ciències del Mar CSIC Barcelona Spain
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- Department of Environment, Faculty of Environment Ionian University Zakinthos Greece
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- Natural History Museum of Crete, University Campus (Knossos). School of Sciences & Engineering University of Crete Crete Greece
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- Area per l'Avifauna Migratrice (BIO‐AVM) Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale (ISPRA) Ozzano Emilia Italy
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- Southeast Naturalists Association (ANSE) Murcia Spain
- Department of Zoology and Physical Anthropology University of Murcia, Espinardo Campus Murcia Spain
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- Faculté des Sciences Mathématiques, Physiques et Naturelles de Tunis (FST), Université de Tunis El Manar Tunis Tunisia
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- Departament de Biologia Evolutiva, Ecologia i Ciències Ambientals, Facultat de Biologia Universitat de Barcelona (UB) Barcelona Spain
- Institut de Recerca de la Biodiversitat (IRBio) Universitat de Barcelona (UB) Barcelona Spain
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- Departament de Biologia Evolutiva, Ecologia i Ciències Ambientals, Facultat de Biologia Universitat de Barcelona (UB) Barcelona Spain
- Institut de Recerca de la Biodiversitat (IRBio) Universitat de Barcelona (UB) Barcelona Spain
- Centre d'Estudis Avançats de Blanes (CSIC) Blanes Spain
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- Departament de Biologia Evolutiva, Ecologia i Ciències Ambientals, Facultat de Biologia Universitat de Barcelona (UB) Barcelona Spain
- Institut de Recerca de la Biodiversitat (IRBio) Universitat de Barcelona (UB) Barcelona Spain
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- Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive (CEFE), UMR 5175, CNRS, EPHE, IRD Université La Rochelle Montpellier France
- Percy Fitzpatrick Institute of African Ornithology NRF‐DST Centre of Excellence, University of Cape Town Rondebosch South Africa
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- Departament de Biologia Evolutiva, Ecologia i Ciències Ambientals, Facultat de Biologia Universitat de Barcelona (UB) Barcelona Spain
- Institut de Recerca de la Biodiversitat (IRBio) Universitat de Barcelona (UB) Barcelona Spain
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- Departament de Biologia Evolutiva, Ecologia i Ciències Ambientals, Facultat de Biologia Universitat de Barcelona (UB) Barcelona Spain
- Institut de Recerca de la Biodiversitat (IRBio) Universitat de Barcelona (UB) Barcelona Spain
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Cioccarelli S, Terras A, Assandri G, Berlusconi A, Grattini N, Mercogliano A, Pazhera A, Sbrilli A, Cecere JG, Rubolini D, Morganti M. Vegetation height and structure drive foraging habitat selection of the lesser kestrel ( Falco naumanni) in intensive agricultural landscapes. PeerJ 2022; 10:e13979. [PMID: 36221268 PMCID: PMC9548312 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.13979] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/06/2022] [Accepted: 08/10/2022] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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Habitat selection in animals is a fundamental ecological process with key conservation implications. Assessing habitat selection in endangered species and populations occupying the extreme edges of their distribution range, or living in highly anthropized landscapes, may be of particular interest as it may provide hints to mechanisms promoting potential range expansions. We assessed second- and third-order foraging habitat selection in the northernmost European breeding population of the lesser kestrel (Falco naumanni), a migratory falcon of European conservation interest, by integrating results obtained from 411 direct observations with those gathered from nine GPS-tracked individuals. The study population breeds in the intensively cultivated Po Plain (northern Italy). Direct observations and GPS data coincide in showing that foraging lesser kestrels shifted their habitat preferences through the breeding cycle. They positively selected alfalfa and other non-irrigated crops during the early breeding season, while winter cereals were selected during the nestling-rearing phase. Maize was selected during the early breeding season, after sowing, but significantly avoided later. Overall, vegetation height emerged as the main predictor of foraging habitat selection, with birds preferring short vegetation, which is likely to maximise prey accessibility. Such a flexibility in foraging habitat selection according to spatio-temporal variation in the agricultural landscape determined by local crop management practices may have allowed the species to successfully thrive in one of the most intensively cultivated areas of Europe. In the southeastern Po Plain, the broad extent of hay and non-irrigated crops is possibly functioning as a surrogate habitat for the pseudo-steppe environment where most of the European breeding population is settled, fostering the northward expansion of the species in Europe. In intensive agricultural landscapes, the maintenance of alfalfa and winter cereals crops and an overall high crop heterogeneity (deriving from crop rotation) is fundamental to accommodate the ecological requirements of the species in different phases of its breeding cycle.
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- Sara Cioccarelli
- Dipartimento di Scienze e Politiche Ambientali, University of Milan, Milan, Italy,Ethology Unit, Department of Biology, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
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- Laboratoire Ecologie et Biologie des Interactions, Université de Poitiers, Poitiers Cedex 9, France
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- Area Avifauna Migratrice, Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale (ISPRA), Ozzano Emilia (BO), Italy
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- Environment Analysis and Management Unit—Guido Tosi Research Group— Department of Theoretical and Applied Sciences, Università degli Studi dell’Insubria, Varese (VA), Italy,Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche—Istituto di Ricerca sulle Acque (CNR-IRSA), Brugherio (MB) and Montelibretti (RM), Italy
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- SOM Stazione Ornitologica Modenese “Il Pettazzurro”, Mirandola (MO), Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze e Politiche Ambientali, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
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- Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche—Istituto di Ricerca sulle Acque (CNR-IRSA), Brugherio (MB) and Montelibretti (RM), Italy
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- Area Avifauna Migratrice, Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale (ISPRA), Ozzano Emilia (BO), Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze e Politiche Ambientali, University of Milan, Milan, Italy,Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche—Istituto di Ricerca sulle Acque (CNR-IRSA), Brugherio (MB) and Montelibretti (RM), Italy
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- Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche—Istituto di Ricerca sulle Acque (CNR-IRSA), Brugherio (MB) and Montelibretti (RM), Italy
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Costanzo A, Ambrosini R, Franzetti A, Romano A, Cecere JG, Morganti M, Rubolini D, Gandolfi I. The cloacal microbiome of a cavity-nesting raptor, the lesser kestrel ( Falco naumanni). PeerJ 2022; 10:e13927. [PMID: 36221261 PMCID: PMC9548316 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.13927] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/18/2022] [Accepted: 07/30/2022] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
Abstract
Background Microbial communities are found on any part of animal bodies exposed to the environment, and are particularly prominent in the gut, where they play such a major role in the host metabolism and physiology to be considered a "second genome". These communities, collectively known as "microbiome", are well studied in humans and model species, while studies on wild animals have lagged behind. This is unfortunate, as different studies suggested the central role of the gut microbiome in shaping the evolutionary trajectories of species and their population dynamics. Among bird species, only few descriptions of raptor gut microbiomes are available, and mainly carried out on captive individuals. Objectives In this study, we aimed at improving the knowledge of raptor microbiomes by providing the first description of the gut microbiome of the lesser kestrel (Falco naumanni), a cavity-nesting raptor. Results The gut microbiome of the lesser kestrel was dominated by Actinobacteria (83.9%), Proteobacteria (8.6%) and Firmicutes (4.3%). We detected no differences in microbiome composition between males and females. Furthermore, the general composition of the microbiome appears similar to that of phylogenetically distant cavity-nesting species. Conclusions Our results broaden the knowledge of raptor gut microbial communities and let us hypothesize that the distinct nest environment in terms of microclimate and presence of organic material from previous breeding attempts, to which cavity-nesting species that reuse the nest are exposed, might be an important driver shaping microbiomes.
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- Alessandra Costanzo
- Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Milan—Bicocca, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
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- Area Avifauna Migratrice, Istituto Superiore per La Protezione e La Ricerca Ambientale (ISPRA), Ozzano Emilia, (BO), Italy
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- IRSA-CNR, Water Research Institute-National Research Council of Italy, Brugherio, Italy
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- Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
- IRSA-CNR, Water Research Institute-National Research Council of Italy, Brugherio, Italy
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- Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Milan—Bicocca, Milan, Italy
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De Pascalis F, De Felice B, Parolini M, Pisu D, Pala D, Antonioli D, Perin E, Gianotti V, Ilahiane L, Masoero G, Serra L, Rubolini D, Cecere JG. The hidden cost of following currents: Microplastic ingestion in a planktivorous seabird. Mar Pollut Bull 2022; 182:114030. [PMID: 35964431 DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2022.114030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2022] [Revised: 07/19/2022] [Accepted: 08/02/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Microplastics are increasingly pervasive pollutants, particularly abundant in the neuston where they drift with currents. We assessed dietary microplastic ingestion in the Mediterranean storm petrel (Hydrobates pelagicus melitensis), a small pelagic seabird that forages on plankton and inhabit the Mediterranean sea, one of the most polluted seas worldwide. We collected spontaneous regurgitates from 30 chick-rearing individuals and used GPS tracking data from 7 additional individuals to locate foraging areas. Birds foraged in pelagic areas characterized by water stirring and mixing, and regurgitates from 14 individuals (i.e. 45 %) contained microplastics. Fibers were the dominant shape (56 %), with polyester, polyethylene and nylon being the most frequent polymers. Our findings highlight the potential sensitivity of this species of conservation interest to plastic pollution and suggest that storm petrel regurgitates can be a valuable matrix to investigate microplastic ingestion in planktonic foragers, providing a characterization of spatio-temporal patterns of microplastic exposure in pelagic environments.
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- Federico De Pascalis
- Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy, University of Milan, Milano (MI), Italy; Area BIO-AVM, Italian National Institute for Environmental Protection and Research, Ozzano dell'Emilia (BO), Italy.
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- Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy, University of Milan, Milano (MI), Italy
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- Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy, University of Milan, Milano (MI), Italy
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- Regione Pireddu Nieddu snc, Stintino (SS), Italy
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- Azienda Speciale Parco di Porto Conte, Alghero (SS), Italy
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- Department of Science and Technological Innovation, University of Eastern Piedmont, Alessandria (AL), Italy
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- Department of Science and Technological Innovation, University of Eastern Piedmont, Alessandria (AL), Italy
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- Department of Science and Technological Innovation, University of Eastern Piedmont, Alessandria (AL), Italy
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- Department of Science and Technological Innovation, University of Eastern Piedmont, Alessandria (AL), Italy
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- Section of Ecology, Department of Biology, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
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- Area BIO-AVM, Italian National Institute for Environmental Protection and Research, Ozzano dell'Emilia (BO), Italy
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- Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy, University of Milan, Milano (MI), Italy; Istituto di Ricerca sulle Acque, IRSA-CNR, Brugherio (MB), Italy.
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- Area BIO-AVM, Italian National Institute for Environmental Protection and Research, Ozzano dell'Emilia (BO), Italy
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Ramellini S, Imperio S, Morinay J, De Pascalis F, Catoni C, Morganti M, Rubolini D, Cecere JG. Individual foraging site fidelity increases from incubation to nestling rearing in a colonial bird. Anim Behav 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2022.07.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/01/2022]
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Campioni L, Dell'Omo G, Vizzini S, De Pascalis F, Badalamenti F, Massa B, Rubolini D, Cecere JG. Year-round variation in the isotopic niche of Scopoli's shearwater (Calonectris diomedea) breeding in contrasting sea regions of the Mediterranean Sea. Mar Environ Res 2022; 178:105650. [PMID: 35644078 DOI: 10.1016/j.marenvres.2022.105650] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/02/2021] [Revised: 05/11/2022] [Accepted: 05/14/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Top marine predators are key components of marine food webs. Among them, long-distance migratory seabirds, which travel across different marine ecosystems over the year, may experience important year-round changes in terms of oceanographic conditions and availability of trophic resources. We tested whether this was the case in the Scopoli's shearwater (Calonectris diomedea), a trans-equatorial migrant and top predator, by sampling birds breeding in three environmentally different regions of the Mediterranean Sea. The analysis of positional data and stable isotopes (δ1³C and δ15N) of target feathers revealed that birds from the three regions were spatially segregated during the breeding period while they shared non-breeding areas in the Atlantic Ocean. Isotopic baseline levels of N and C (meso-zooplankton) were significantly different among marine regions during breeding. Such variation was reflected at the higher trophic levels of pelagic and demersal fish muscles as well as in shearwater feathers grown in the Mediterranean. δ15N- and δ13C-adjusted values of shearwaters were significantly different among populations suggesting that birds from different breeding areas relied on prey species from different trophic levels. Conversely, the non-breeding spatial and isotopic niches overlapped greatly among the three populations. Shearwater trophic niches during breeding were narrower and segregated compared to the non-breeding period, revealing a high plasticity in trophic resource use. Overall, this study highlights seasonal and region-specific use of trophic resources by Scopoli's shearwater, suggesting a broad trophic plasticity and possibly a high adaptability to environmental changes.
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- Letizia Campioni
- MARE - Marine and Environmental Sciences Center, Ispa - Instituto Universitário, Rua Jardim Do Tabaco 34, 1149-041, Lisbon, Portugal.
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Della Terra e Del Mare, Università Degli Studi di Palermo, Via Archirafi 18, 90123, Palermo, Italy; Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Scienze Del Mare, CoNISMa, Piazzale Flaminio 9, 00196, Roma, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze e Politiche Ambientali, Università Degli Studi di Milano, Via Celoria 26 I, 20133, Milano, Italy
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- Institute of Anthropic Impacts and Sustainability in Marine Environment (CNR-IAS), Via Lungomare Cristoforo Colombo 4521, 90149, Palermo, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze e Politiche Ambientali, Università Degli Studi di Milano, Via Celoria 26 I, 20133, Milano, Italy; Istituto di Ricerca Sulle Acque, IRSA-CNR, Via Del Mulino 19 I, 20861, Brugherio, (MB), Italy
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- Area Avifauna Migratrice, Istituto Superiore per La Protezione e La Ricerca Ambientale (ISPRA), Ozzano Emilia, (BO), Italy
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Soravia C, Bisazza A, Cecere JG, Rubolini D. Extra food provisioning does not affect behavioural lateralization in nestling lesser kestrels. Curr Zool 2022; 69:66-75. [PMID: 36974149 PMCID: PMC10039179 DOI: 10.1093/cz/zoac021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2022] [Accepted: 03/22/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Costs and benefits of brain lateralization may depend on environmental conditions. Growing evidence indicates that the development of brain functional asymmetries is adaptively shaped by the environmental conditions experienced during early life. Food availability early in life could act as a proxy of the environmental conditions encountered during adulthood, but its potential modulatory effect on lateralization has received little attention. We increased food supply from egg laying to early nestling rearing in a wild population of lesser kestrels Falco naumanni, a sexually dimorphic raptor, and quantified the lateralization of preening behaviour (head turning direction). As more lateralized individuals may perform better in highly competitive contexts, we expected that extra food provisioning, by reducing the level of intra-brood competition for food, would reduce the strength of lateralization. We found that extra food provisioning improved nestling growth, but it did not significantly affect the strength or direction of nestling lateralization. In addition, maternal body condition did not explain variation in nestling lateralization. Independently of extra food provisioning, the direction of lateralization differed between the sexes, with female nestlings turning more often towards their right. Our findings indicate that early food availability does not modulate behavioural lateralization in a motor task, suggesting limited phenotypic plasticity in this trait.
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- Camilla Soravia
- Centre for Evolutionary Biology (M092), University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Perth, WA, 6009, Australia
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- Department of General Psychology, University of Padova, via Venezia 8, Padova, I-35131, Italy
- Padova Neuroscience Center, University of Padova, Via Orus 2/B, Padova, I-35129, Italy
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- ISPRA—The Italian Institute for Environmental Protection and Research, via Cà Fornacetta 9, Ozzano dell'Emilia (, BO, I-40064, Italy, )
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- Dipartimento di Scienze e Politiche Ambientali, Università degli Studi di Milano, via Celoria 26, Milano, I-20133, Italy
- Istituto di Ricerca sulle Acque, IRSA-CNR, Via del Mulino 19, Brugherio, MB, I-20861, Italy,
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Marx M, Schumm YR, Kardynal KJ, Hobson KA, Rocha G, Zehtindjiev P, Bakaloudis D, Metzger B, Cecere JG, Spina F, Cianchetti-Benedetti M, Frahnert S, Voigt CC, Lormée H, Eraud C, Quillfeldt P. Feather stable isotopes (δ2Hf and δ13Cf) identify the Sub-Saharan wintering grounds of turtle doves from Europe. EUR J WILDLIFE RES 2022. [DOI: 10.1007/s10344-022-01567-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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AbstractConservation of migratory birds requires knowledge of breeding and nonbreeding ranges and the connections between them. European turtle doves (Streptopelia turtur) are Palearctic-African long-distance migrants with wintering areas in the Sub-Saharan belt that are classed as vulnerable due to strong population declines. However, detailed non-breeding locations of individuals from different migratory flyways are unknown. To identify wintering regions of turtle doves, we measured stable isotopes of feathers grown on the wintering grounds and used a dual-isotope (hydrogen (δ2Hf) and carbon (δ13Cf)) probabilistic assignment to analyse origins of individuals migrating through the western and central/eastern flyways. The most probable wintering areas for turtle dove samples from both flyways were in the western and central Sub-Sahara. However, we found differences in δ2Hf and δ13Cf values between turtle doves following different migratory routes (western vs central/eastern flyway). This result suggests a higher likelihood of origins in the central Sub-Sahara for central and eastern migrants, while turtle doves using the western flyway originated primarily in the western Sub-Sahara, highlighting the importance of both regions for the future conservation of turtle doves from European breeding populations. The establishment of migratory connectivity of populations requires sampling from birds from the European as well as Asian continent; however, we provide important results that can be used to test hypotheses regarding population declines resulting from factors experienced over the full annual cycle for some populations.
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De Pascalis F, Austin RE, Green JA, Arnould JPY, Imperio S, Maugeri M, Haakonsson J, Cecere JG, Rubolini D. Influence of rainfall on foraging behavior of a tropical seabird. Behav Ecol 2021. [DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arab134] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Acquiring resources for self-maintenance and reproduction is a key challenge for wild animals, and the methods that individuals employ are, in part, shaped by environmental conditions that vary in time and space. For birds, rainfall may affect behavior, impairing senses and increasing energetic costs, but its consequences on movement patterns are poorly explored. We investigated the influence of rainfall on the foraging behavior of the magnificent frigatebird, Fregata magnificens. This peculiar tropical seabird lacks feather waterproofing and is known to track environmental conditions while searching for food. Thus, its foraging behavior should be highly sensitive to the effects of rainfall. By GPS-tracking chick-rearing adults, we showed that frigatebirds did not avoid areas with rainfall during foraging trips, nor did rainfall influence trip characteristics. However, rainfall decreased time devoted to foraging and increased time spent perching. Moreover, it affected flight mode, inducing birds to fly slower and at lower altitudes. Wind speed, which was not correlated with rainfall, only affected behavior during night-time, with strong winds decreasing time spent perching. Our results indicate that rainfall does not affect the spatial distribution of foraging frigatebirds but does alter fine-scale foraging behavior by reducing flight activity. We suggest that the ongoing environmental change in this region, including an increase in rainfall events, has the potential to impair foraging and negatively affect fitness.
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- Federico De Pascalis
- Dipartimento di Scienze e Politiche Ambientali, Università degli studi di Milano, via Celoria 2, 20133 Milano, Italy
- School of Environmental Sciences, University of Liverpool, 4 Brownlow Street, L69 3GP Liverpool, UK
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- School of Environmental Sciences, University of Liverpool, 4 Brownlow Street, L69 3GP Liverpool, UK
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- School of Environmental Sciences, University of Liverpool, 4 Brownlow Street, L69 3GP Liverpool, UK
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- School of Life and Environmental Science, Deakin University, 221 Burwood Highway, 3125 Burwood, Australia
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- Area Avifauna Migratrice, ISPRA, via Ca’ Fornacetta 9, 40064 Ozzano dell’Emilia, Italy
- Istituto di Geoscienze e Georisorse, IGG CNR, Via G. Moruzzi 1, 56124 Pisa, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze e Politiche Ambientali, Università degli studi di Milano, via Celoria 2, 20133 Milano, Italy
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- Department of Environment, Cayman Islands Government, 580 North Sound Road, KY1-1002 Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands
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- Area Avifauna Migratrice, ISPRA, via Ca’ Fornacetta 9, 40064 Ozzano dell’Emilia, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze e Politiche Ambientali, Università degli studi di Milano, via Celoria 2, 20133 Milano, Italy
- Istituto di Ricerca sulle Acque, IRSA CNR, Via del Mulino 19, 20861 Brugherio, Italy
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Romano A, Corti M, Soravia C, Cecere JG, Rubolini D. Ectoparasites exposure affects early growth and mouth colour in nestlings of a cavity-nesting raptor. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 2021. [DOI: 10.1007/s00265-021-03098-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Morinay J, De Pascalis F, Dominoni DM, Morganti M, Pezzo F, Pirrello S, Visceglia M, De Capua EL, Cecere JG, Rubolini D. Combining social information use and comfort seeking for nest site selection in a cavity-nesting raptor. Anim Behav 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2021.07.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Lopez-Ricaurte L, Vansteelant WMG, Hernández-Pliego J, García-Silveira D, Bermejo-Bermejo A, Casado S, Cecere JG, de la Puente J, Garcés-Toledano F, Martínez-Dalmau J, Ortega A, Rodríguez-Moreno B, Rubolini D, Sarà M, Bustamante J. Barrier crossings and winds shape daily travel schedules and speeds of a flight generalist. Sci Rep 2021; 11:12044. [PMID: 34103580 PMCID: PMC8187636 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-91378-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/16/2020] [Accepted: 05/19/2021] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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External factors such as geography and weather strongly affect bird migration influencing daily travel schedules and flight speeds. For strictly thermal-soaring migrants, weather explains most seasonal and regional differences in speed. Flight generalists, which alternate between soaring and flapping flight, are expected to be less dependent on weather, and daily travel schedules are likely to be strongly influenced by geography and internal factors such as sex. We GPS-tracked the migration of 70 lesser kestrels (Falco naumanni) to estimate the relative importance of external factors (wind, geography), internal factors (sex) and season, and the extent to which they explain variation in travel speed, distance, and duration. Our results show that geography and tailwind are important factors in explaining variation in daily travel schedules and speeds. We found that wind explained most of the seasonal differences in travel speed. In both seasons, lesser kestrels sprinted across ecological barriers and frequently migrated during the day and night. Conversely, they travelled at a slower pace and mainly during the day over non-barriers. Our results highlighted that external factors far outweighed internal factors and season in explaining variation in migratory behaviour of a flight generalist, despite its ability to switch between flight modes.
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- Lina Lopez-Ricaurte
- Departament of Wetland Ecology, Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD-CSIC), C/Américo Vespucio 26, E-41092, Seville, Spain.
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- Departament of Wetland Ecology, Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD-CSIC), C/Américo Vespucio 26, E-41092, Seville, Spain
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- Departament of Wetland Ecology, Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD-CSIC), C/Américo Vespucio 26, E-41092, Seville, Spain
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- Bird Monitoring Unit, SEO/BirdLife, C/Melquiades Biencinto 34, 28053, Madrid, Spain
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- Area Avifauna Migratrice, Istituto Superiore Per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale (ISPRA), Via Ca' Fornacetta 9, 40064, Ozzano dell'Emilia BO, Italy
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- Bird Monitoring Unit, SEO/BirdLife, C/Melquiades Biencinto 34, 28053, Madrid, Spain
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- Dipartimento di Scienze e Politiche Ambientali, Università Degli Studi di Milano, Via Celoria 26, 20133, Milan, Italy
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- Dipartimento STEBICEF, Università Degli Studi di Palermo, Via Archirafi 18, 90123, Palermo, Italy
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- Departament of Wetland Ecology, Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD-CSIC), C/Américo Vespucio 26, E-41092, Seville, Spain.
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Morganti M, Cecere JG, Quilici S, Tarantino C, Blonda PN, Griggio M, Ambrosini R, Rubolini D. Assessing the relative importance of managed crops and semi-natural grasslands as foraging habitats for breeding lesser kestrels Falco naumanni in southeastern Italy. Wildlife Biology 2021. [DOI: 10.2981/wlb.00800] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/01/2022]
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- Michelangelo Morganti
- M. Morganti (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8047-0429) ✉ , National Research Council – Water Research Inst. (CNR-IRSA), Brugherio, (MB), Italy
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- J. G. Cecere (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4925-2730), Area Avifauna Migratrice, Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale (ISPRA), Ozzano Emilia, (BO), Italy
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- S. Quilici (https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7499-1749), R. Ambrosini (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7148-1468) and D. Rubolini (https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2703-5783), Dipto di Scienze e Politiche Ambientali, Univ. degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italy
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- C. Tarantino (https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3304-5355) and P. N. Blonda (https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4576-2669), Inst. of Atmospheric Pollution Research (IIA), National Research Council (CNR), c/o Interateneo Physics Dept, Bari, Italy
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- C. Tarantino (https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3304-5355) and P. N. Blonda (https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4576-2669), Inst. of Atmospheric Pollution Research (IIA), National Research Council (CNR), c/o Interateneo Physics Dept, Bari, Italy
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- M. Griggio (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3298-2905), Dipto di Biologia, Univ. di Padova, Padova, Italy
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- S. Quilici (https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7499-1749), R. Ambrosini (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7148-1468) and D. Rubolini (https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2703-5783), Dipto di Scienze e Politiche Ambientali, Univ. degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italy
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- S. Quilici (https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7499-1749), R. Ambrosini (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7148-1468) and D. Rubolini (https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2703-5783), Dipto di Scienze e Politiche Ambientali, Univ. degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italy
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De Pascalis F, Imperio S, Benvenuti A, Catoni C, Rubolini D, Cecere JG. Sex-specific foraging behaviour is affected by wind conditions in a sexually size dimorphic seabird. Anim Behav 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2020.05.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Cecere JG, De Pascalis F, Imperio S, Ménard D, Catoni C, Griggio M, Rubolini D. Inter-individual differences in foraging tactics of a colonial raptor: consistency, weather effects, and fitness correlates. Mov Ecol 2020; 8:28. [PMID: 32587702 PMCID: PMC7313117 DOI: 10.1186/s40462-020-00206-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2020] [Accepted: 04/23/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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BACKGROUND Consistent inter-individual differences in behavioural phenotypes may entail differences in energy efficiency and expenditure, with different fitness payoffs. In colonial-breeding species, inter-individual differences in foraging behaviour may evolve to reduce resource use overlap among conspecifics exploiting shared foraging areas. Furthermore, individual differences in foraging behaviour may covary with individual characteristics, such as sex or physiological conditions. METHODS We investigated individual differences in foraging tactics of a colonial raptor, the lesser kestrel (Falco naumanni). We tracked foraging trips of breeding individuals using miniaturized biologgers. We classified behaviours from GPS data and identified tactics at the foraging trip level by cluster analysis. We then estimated energy expenditure associated to each tactic from tri-axial accelerometer data. RESULTS We obtained 489 foraging trips by 36 individuals. Two clusters of trips were identified, one (SF) characterized by more static foraging behaviour and the other (DF) by more dynamic foraging behaviour, with a higher proportion of flying activity and a higher energy expenditure compared to SF. Lesser kestrels showed consistent inter-individual differences in foraging tactics across weather condition gradients, favouring DF trips as solar radiation and crosswind intensity increased. DF trips were more frequent during the nestling-rearing than during the egg incubation stage. Nestlings whose tracked parent was more prone to perform DF trips experienced higher daily mass increase, irrespective of nestling feeding rates. CONCLUSIONS Our study provided evidence that breeding lesser kestrels flexibly adopted different foraging tactics according to contingent weather landscapes, with birds showing consistent inter-individual differences in the tendency to adopt a given tactic. The positive correlation between the tendency to perform more energy-demanding DF trips and nestling growth suggests that individual differences in foraging behaviour may play a role in maintaining key life-history trade-offs between reproduction and self-maintenance.
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- Jacopo G. Cecere
- Area Avifauna Migratrice, Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale (ISPRA), via Ca’ Fornacetta 9, I-40064 Ozzano dell’Emilia, BO Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze e Politiche Ambientali, Università degli Studi di Milano, via Celoria 26, I-20133 Milan, Italy
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- Area Avifauna Migratrice, Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale (ISPRA), via Ca’ Fornacetta 9, I-40064 Ozzano dell’Emilia, BO Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze e Politiche Ambientali, Università degli Studi di Milano, via Celoria 26, I-20133 Milan, Italy
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- Ornis italica, piazza Crati 15, I-00199 Rome, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Biologia, Università degli Studi di Padova, via U. Bassi 58/B, I-35131 Padova, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze e Politiche Ambientali, Università degli Studi di Milano, via Celoria 26, I-20133 Milan, Italy
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Picardi S, Smith BJ, Boone ME, Frederick PC, Cecere JG, Rubolini D, Serra L, Pirrello S, Borkhataria RR, Basille M. Analysis of movement recursions to detect reproductive events and estimate their fate in central place foragers. Mov Ecol 2020; 8:24. [PMID: 32518652 PMCID: PMC7268620 DOI: 10.1186/s40462-020-00201-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2019] [Accepted: 03/17/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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BACKGROUND Recursive movement patterns have been used to detect behavioral structure within individual movement trajectories in the context of foraging ecology, home-ranging behavior, and predator avoidance. Some animals exhibit movement recursions to locations that are tied to reproductive functions, including nests and dens; while existing literature recognizes that, no method is currently available to explicitly target different types of revisited locations. Moreover, the temporal persistence of recursive movements to a breeding location can carry information regarding the fate of breeding attempts, but it has never been used as a metric to quantify recursive movement patterns. Here, we introduce a method to locate breeding attempts and estimate their fate from GPS-tracking data of central place foragers. We tested the performance of our method in three bird species differing in breeding ecology (wood stork (Mycteria americana), lesser kestrel (Falco naumanni), Mediterranean gull (Ichthyaetus melanocephalus)) and implemented it in the R package 'nestR'. METHODS We identified breeding sites based on the analysis of recursive movements within individual tracks. Using trajectories with known breeding attempts, we estimated a set of species-specific criteria for the identification of nest sites, which we further validated using non-reproductive individuals as controls. We then estimated individual nest survival as a binary measure of reproductive fate (success, corresponding to fledging of at least one chick, or failure) from nest-site revisitation histories during breeding attempts, using a Bayesian hierarchical modeling approach that accounted for temporally variable revisitation patterns, probability of visit detection, and missing data. RESULTS Across the three species, positive predictive value of the nest-site detection algorithm varied between 87 and 100% and sensitivity between 88 and 92%, and we correctly estimated the fate of 86-100% breeding attempts. CONCLUSIONS By providing a method to formally distinguish among revisited locations that serve different ecological functions and introducing a probabilistic framework to quantify temporal persistence of movement recursions, we demonstrated how the analysis of recursive movement patterns can be applied to estimate reproduction in central place foragers. Beyond avian species, the principles of our method can be applied to other central place foraging breeders such as denning mammals. Our method estimates a component of individual fitness from movement data and will help bridge the gap between movement behavior, environmental factors, and their fitness consequences.
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- Simona Picardi
- Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Fort Lauderdale Research and Education Center, University of Florida, 3205 College Ave, Davie, FL 33314 USA
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- Deparmtent of Wildland Resources, Ecology Center, Utah State University, Logan, UT 84322 USA
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- Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Fort Lauderdale Research and Education Center, University of Florida, 3205 College Ave, Davie, FL 33314 USA
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- Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, University of Florida, 368 Newins-Ziegler Hall, Gainesville, FL 32611 USA
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- Area Avifauna Migratrice, Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale (ISPRA), via Cà Fornacetta 9, I-40064 Ozzano Emilia, BO Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze e Politiche Ambientali, Università degli Studi di Milano, via Celoria 26, I’20133 Milan, Italy
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- Area Avifauna Migratrice, Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale (ISPRA), via Cà Fornacetta 9, I-40064 Ozzano Emilia, BO Italy
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- Area Avifauna Migratrice, Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale (ISPRA), via Cà Fornacetta 9, I-40064 Ozzano Emilia, BO Italy
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- Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Everglades Research and Education Center, University of Florida, 3200 E Palm Beach Rd, Belle Glade, FL 33430 USA
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- Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Fort Lauderdale Research and Education Center, University of Florida, 3205 College Ave, Davie, FL 33314 USA
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Marx M, Rocha G, Zehtindjiev P, Peev S, Bakaloudis D, Metzger B, Cecere JG, Spina F, Cianchetti‐Benedetti M, Frahnert S, Gamauf A, Voigt CC, Quillfeldt P. Using stable isotopes to assess population connectivity in the declining European Turtle Dove (
Streptopelia turtur
). Conservat Sci and Prac 2020. [DOI: 10.1111/csp2.152] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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- Melanie Marx
- Department of Animal Ecology & SystematicsJustus‐Liebig University Giessen Giessen Germany
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- Department of Zoology, Veterinary SchoolUniversity of Extremadura Cáceres Spain
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- Bulgarian Academy of SciencesInstitute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research Sofia Bulgaria
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- Bulgarian Academy of SciencesInstitute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research Sofia Bulgaria
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- Laboratory of Wildlife & Freshwater Fish, School of Forestry and Natural EnvironmentAristotle University of Thessaloniki Thessaloniki Greece
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- Area Avifauna MigratriceIstituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale (ISPRA) Bologna Italy
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- Area Avifauna MigratriceIstituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale (ISPRA) Bologna Italy
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- Museum für NaturkundeLeibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science Berlin Germany
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- Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW)Alfred‐Kowalke‐Straße 17 Berlin Germany
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- Department of Animal Ecology & SystematicsJustus‐Liebig University Giessen Giessen Germany
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Pascucci I, Di Domenico M, Capobianco Dondona G, Di Gennaro A, Polci A, Capobianco Dondona A, Mancuso E, Cammà C, Savini G, Cecere JG, Spina F, Monaco F. Assessing the role of migratory birds in the introduction of ticks and tick-borne pathogens from African countries: An Italian experience. Ticks Tick Borne Dis 2019; 10:101272. [PMID: 31481344 DOI: 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2019.101272] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2018] [Revised: 07/29/2019] [Accepted: 08/15/2019] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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The continuous flow of billions of birds between Africa and Europe creates an "ecological bridge" between physically remote areas. Migratory birds fly south from their breeding grounds during late summer/fall and fly back in spring. These movements regulate the spread of internal and external parasites, as well as pathogens of potential public health concern. The aim of the present study was to investigate the possible introduction of exotic tick species and tick-borne pathogens into Europe via migratory birds. At the bird observatory of Ventotene island (Italy), 443 feeding ticks were collected from 249 birds captured and ringed during their northbound migration in spring 2013. Each tick was identified by morphological and molecular methods and then tested for bacterial and viral pathogens: Borrelia burgdorferi s.l., Rickettsia spp., Ehrlichia ruminantium and Coxiella burnetii, Crimean Congo haemorrhagic fever virus (CCHFV) and Flavivirus. Morphological and molecular identification confirmed Hyalomma rufipes as the most abundant species among the collected arthropods (366/443; 82.6%) followed by Hyalomma marginatum (10/433; 2.3%). Rickettsia aeschlimannii was identified in 158 ticks, while one engorged Amblyomma variegatum nymph was infected with Rickettsia africae. The other bacteria were not detected in any specimen. Among viruses, RNA belonging to West Nile virus and other Flavivirus were detected whereas all ticks were negative for CCHFV RNA. These results confirm how migratory birds play a role in carrying Rickettsia-infected ticks, as well as viruses of zoonotic importance, from Africa into Europe. To what extent tick species are capable of establishing a permanent population once introduced in naïve areas, is far from defined and deserve further investigation.
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- Ilaria Pascucci
- Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell'Abruzzo e Molise "G. Caporale" Campo Boario, 64100, Teramo, Italy.
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- Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell'Abruzzo e Molise "G. Caporale" Campo Boario, 64100, Teramo, Italy
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- Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell'Abruzzo e Molise "G. Caporale" Campo Boario, 64100, Teramo, Italy
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- Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell'Abruzzo e Molise "G. Caporale" Campo Boario, 64100, Teramo, Italy
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- Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell'Abruzzo e Molise "G. Caporale" Campo Boario, 64100, Teramo, Italy
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- Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell'Abruzzo e Molise "G. Caporale" Campo Boario, 64100, Teramo, Italy
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- Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell'Abruzzo e Molise "G. Caporale" Campo Boario, 64100, Teramo, Italy
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- Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell'Abruzzo e Molise "G. Caporale" Campo Boario, 64100, Teramo, Italy
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- Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell'Abruzzo e Molise "G. Caporale" Campo Boario, 64100, Teramo, Italy
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- Area Avifauna Migratrice, Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale (ISPRA), via Ca' Fornacetta 9, I-40064, Ozzano Emilia, BO, Italy
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- Area Avifauna Migratrice, Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale (ISPRA), via Ca' Fornacetta 9, I-40064, Ozzano Emilia, BO, Italy
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- Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell'Abruzzo e Molise "G. Caporale" Campo Boario, 64100, Teramo, Italy
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Podofillini S, Cecere JG, Griggio M, Corti M, De Capua EL, Parolini M, Saino N, Serra L, Rubolini D. Benefits of extra food to reproduction depend on maternal condition. OIKOS 2019. [DOI: 10.1111/oik.06067] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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- Stefano Podofillini
- Dipto di Scienze e Politiche Ambientali, Univ. degli Studi di Milano via Celoria 26, IT‐20133 Milano Italy
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- Area Avifauna Migratrice, Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale (ISPRA) Ozzano Emilia (BO) Italy
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- Dipto di Biologia, Univ. degli Studi di Padova Padova Italy
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- Dipto di Scienze e Politiche Ambientali, Univ. degli Studi di Milano via Celoria 26, IT‐20133 Milano Italy
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- Dipto di Scienze e Politiche Ambientali, Univ. degli Studi di Milano via Celoria 26, IT‐20133 Milano Italy
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- Dipto di Scienze e Politiche Ambientali, Univ. degli Studi di Milano via Celoria 26, IT‐20133 Milano Italy
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- Area Avifauna Migratrice, Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale (ISPRA) Ozzano Emilia (BO) Italy
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- Dipto di Scienze e Politiche Ambientali, Univ. degli Studi di Milano via Celoria 26, IT‐20133 Milano Italy
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Cecere JG, Bondì S, Podofillini S, Imperio S, Griggio M, Fulco E, Curcio A, Ménard D, Mellone U, Saino N, Serra L, Sarà M, Rubolini D. Spatial segregation of home ranges between neighbouring colonies in a diurnal raptor. Sci Rep 2018; 8:11762. [PMID: 30082763 PMCID: PMC6078973 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-29933-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/27/2017] [Accepted: 06/18/2018] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Enhancement of information transfer has been proposed as a key driver of the evolution of coloniality. Transfer of information on location of food resources implies that individuals from the same colony share foraging areas and that each colony can be associated to a specific foraging area. In colonial breeding vertebrates, colony-specific foraging areas are often spatially segregated, mitigating intercolony intraspecific competition. By means of simultaneous GPS tracking of lesser kestrels (Falco naumanni) from neighbouring colonies, we showed a clear segregation of space use between individuals from different colonies. Foraging birds from different neighbouring colonies had home ranges that were significantly more segregated in space than expected by chance. This was the case both between large and between small neighbouring colonies. To our knowledge, the lesser kestrel is the only terrestrial species where evidence of spatial segregation of home ranges between conspecifics from neighbouring colonies has been demonstrated. The observed spatial segregation pattern is consistent with the occurrence of public information transfer about foraging areas and with the avoidance of overexploited areas located between neighbouring colonies. Our findings support the idea that spatial segregation of exploited areas may be widespread among colonial avian taxa, irrespective of colony size.
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- Jacopo G Cecere
- Area Avifauna Migratrice, Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale (ISPRA), via Ca' Fornacetta 9, I-40064, Ozzano Emilia, (BO), Italy.
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- Laboratorio di Zoogeografia ed Ecologia Animale (LABZEA), Dipartimento STEBICEF, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Via Archirafi 18, I-90123, Palermo, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze e Politiche Ambientali, Università degli Studi di Milano, via Celoria 26, I-20133, Milano, Italy
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- Area Avifauna Migratrice, Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale (ISPRA), via Ca' Fornacetta 9, I-40064, Ozzano Emilia, (BO), Italy
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- Dipartimento di Biologia, Università degli Studi di Padova, via U. Bassi 58/B, I-35131, Padova, Italy
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- Studio Naturalistico Milvus, via F.lli Perito snc, I-85010, Pignola, (PZ), Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze e Politiche Ambientali, Università degli Studi di Milano, via Celoria 26, I-20133, Milano, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze e Politiche Ambientali, Università degli Studi di Milano, via Celoria 26, I-20133, Milano, Italy
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- Vertebrates Zoology Research Group, Departamento de Ciencias Ambientales y Recursos Naturales, University of Alicante, Apdo. 99, Alicante, E-03080, Spain
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- Dipartimento di Scienze e Politiche Ambientali, Università degli Studi di Milano, via Celoria 26, I-20133, Milano, Italy
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- Area Avifauna Migratrice, Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale (ISPRA), via Ca' Fornacetta 9, I-40064, Ozzano Emilia, (BO), Italy
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- Laboratorio di Zoogeografia ed Ecologia Animale (LABZEA), Dipartimento STEBICEF, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Via Archirafi 18, I-90123, Palermo, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze e Politiche Ambientali, Università degli Studi di Milano, via Celoria 26, I-20133, Milano, Italy.
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Abolaffio M, Reynolds AM, Cecere JG, Paiva VH, Focardi S. Olfactory-cued navigation in shearwaters: linking movement patterns to mechanisms. Sci Rep 2018; 8:11590. [PMID: 30072695 PMCID: PMC6072774 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-29919-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/26/2017] [Accepted: 05/09/2018] [Indexed: 01/16/2023] Open
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After foraging in the open ocean pelagic birds can pinpoint their breeding colonies, located on remote islands in visually featureless seascapes. This remarkable ability to navigate over vast distances has been attributed to the birds being able to learn an olfactory map on the basis of wind-borne odors. Odor-cued navigation has been linked mechanistically to displacements with exponentially-truncated power-law distributions. Such distributions were previously identified in three species of Atlantic and Mediterranean shearwaters but crucially it has not been demonstrated that these distributions are wind-speed dependent, as expected if navigation was olfactory-cued. Here we show that the distributions are wind-speed dependent, in accordance with theoretical expectations. We thereby link movement patterns to underlying generative mechanisms. Our novel analysis is consistent with the results of more traditional, non-mathematical, invasive methods and thereby provides independent evidence for olfactory-cued navigation in wild birds. Our non-invasive diagnostic tool can be applied across taxa, potentially allowing for the assessment of its pervasiveness.
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- Milo Abolaffio
- Department of Physics, University of Padova, Padova, Italy.
- ISC-CNR, via Madonna del Piano 10, Sesto Fiorentino, 50019, Italy.
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- ISPRA, via Ca' Fornacetta 9, 40064, Ozzano dell'Emilia, Italy
- LIPU, LIPU-Birdlife Italy, via Udine 3/a, Parma, 43122, Italy
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- MARE, Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre, Department of Life Sciences, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, 3004-517, Portugal
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- ISC-CNR, via Madonna del Piano 10, Sesto Fiorentino, 50019, Italy
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Cecere JG, Panuccio M, Ghiurghi A, Urbano F, Imperio S, Celada C, López-López P. Snake species richness predicts breeding distribution of short-toed snake eagle in central Italy. ETHOL ECOL EVOL 2018. [DOI: 10.1080/03949370.2017.1323800] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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- Jacopo G. Cecere
- Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (ISPRA), Via Ca’ Fornacetta 9, Ozzano dell’Emilia (Bologna), Italy
- LIPU – Conservation Department, Via Udine 3/A, Parma, Italy
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- MEDRAPTORS (Mediterranean Raptor Migration Network), c/o Michele Panuccio, Via Mario Fioretti 18, Rome, Italy
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- National Research Council of Italy (CNR) – Institute of Geosciences and Earth Resources, Via G. Moruzzi 1, Pisa, Italy
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- LIPU – Conservation Department, Via Udine 3/A, Parma, Italy
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- University of Valencia, Cavanilles Institute of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology, Terrestrial Vertebrates Group, Paterna, Valencia, Spain
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Di Lecce I, Bazzocchi C, Cecere JG, Epis S, Sassera D, Villani BM, Bazzi G, Negri A, Saino N, Spina F, Bandi C, Rubolini D. Patterns of Midichloria infection in avian-borne African ticks and their trans-Saharan migratory hosts. Parasit Vectors 2018; 11:106. [PMID: 29471857 PMCID: PMC5824480 DOI: 10.1186/s13071-018-2669-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/11/2017] [Accepted: 01/23/2018] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Background Ticks are obligate haematophagous ectoparasites of vertebrates and frequently parasitize avian species that can carry them across continents during their long-distance migrations. Ticks may have detrimental effects on the health state of their avian hosts, which can be either directly caused by blood-draining or mediated by microbial pathogens transmitted during the blood meal. Indeed, ticks host complex microbial communities, including bacterial pathogens and symbionts. Midichloria bacteria (Rickettsiales) are widespread tick endosymbionts that can be transmitted to vertebrate hosts during the tick bite, inducing an antibody response. Their actual role as infectious/pathogenic agents is, however, unclear. Methods We screened for Midichloria DNA African ticks and blood samples collected from trans-Saharan migratory songbirds at their arrival in Europe during spring migration. Results Tick infestation rate was 5.7%, with most ticks belonging to the Hyalomma marginatum species complex. Over 90% of Hyalomma ticks harboured DNA of Midichloria bacteria belonging to the monophylum associated with ticks. Midichloria DNA was detected in 43% of blood samples of avian hosts. Tick-infested adult birds were significantly more likely to test positive to the presence of Midichloria DNA than non-infested adults and second-year individuals, suggesting a long-term persistence of these bacteria within avian hosts. Tick parasitism was associated with a significantly delayed timing of spring migration of avian hosts but had no significant effects on body condition, whereas blood Midichloria DNA presence negatively affected fat deposits of tick-infested avian hosts. Conclusions Our results show that ticks effectively transfer Midichloria bacteria to avian hosts, supporting the hypothesis that they are infectious to vertebrates. Bird infection likely enhances the horizontal spread of these bacteria across haematophagous ectoparasite populations. Moreover, we showed that Midichloria and tick parasitism have detrimental non-independent effects on avian host health during migration, highlighting the complexity of interactions involving ticks, their vertebrate hosts, and tick-borne bacteria. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (10.1186/s13071-018-2669-z) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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- Irene Di Lecce
- Wild Urban Evolution and Ecology Lab, Centre of New Technologies, University of Warsaw, Banacha 2C, 02-097, Warsaw, Poland
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- Dipartimento di Medicina Veterinaria, Università degli Studi di Milano, via Celoria 10, I-20133, Milan, Italy
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- Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale (ISPRA), via Cà Fornacetta 9, I-40064, Ozzano Emilia (BO), Italy
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- Dipartimento di Bioscienze, Università degli Studi di Milano, via Celoria 26, I-20133, Milan, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Biologia e Biotecnologie, Università degli Studi di Pavia, via Ferrata 9, I-27100, Pavia, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Bioscienze, Università degli Studi di Milano, via Celoria 26, I-20133, Milan, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Bioscienze, Università degli Studi di Milano, via Celoria 26, I-20133, Milan, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Bioscienze, Università degli Studi di Milano, via Celoria 26, I-20133, Milan, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze e Politiche Ambientali, Università degli Studi di Milano, via Celoria 26, I-20133, Milan, Italy
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- Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale (ISPRA), via Cà Fornacetta 9, I-40064, Ozzano Emilia (BO), Italy
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- Dipartimento di Bioscienze, Università degli Studi di Milano, via Celoria 26, I-20133, Milan, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze e Politiche Ambientali, Università degli Studi di Milano, via Celoria 26, I-20133, Milan, Italy.
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Podofillini S, Cecere JG, Griggio M, Curcio A, De Capua EL, Fulco E, Pirrello S, Saino N, Serra L, Visceglia M, Rubolini D. Home, dirty home: effect of old nest material on nest-site selection and breeding performance in a cavity-nesting raptor. Curr Zool 2018; 64:693-702. [PMID: 30538728 PMCID: PMC6280097 DOI: 10.1093/cz/zoy012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/12/2017] [Accepted: 01/23/2018] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The quality of a breeding site may have major fitness consequences. A fundamental step to understanding the process of nest-site selection is the identification of the information individuals use to choose high-quality nest sites. For secondary cavity-nesting bird species that do not add nest lining material, organic remains (faeces, pellets) accumulated inside nest cavities during previous breeding events may be a cue for high-quality nest-sites, as they contain information about past successful breeding and may improve thermal insulation of eggs during incubation. However, cavities in which breeding was successful might also contain more nest-dwelling ectoparasites than unoccupied cavities, offering an incentive for prospective parents to avoid them. We exposed breeding cavity-nesting lesser kestrels (Falco naumanni) to nestbox dyads consisting of a dirty (with a thick layer of organic substrate) and a clean nestbox (without organic material). Dirty nestboxes were strongly preferred, being occupied earlier and more frequently than clean ones. Hatching success in dirty nestboxes was significantly higher than in clean ones, suggesting a positive effect of organic nest material on incubation efficiency, while nestbox dirtiness did not significantly affect clutch and brood size. Nestlings from dirty nestboxes had significantly higher ectoparasite load than those from clean nestboxes soon after egg hatching, but this difference was not evident a few days later. Nest substrate did not significantly affect nestling growth. We concluded that nest substrate is a key driver of nest-site choice in lesser kestrels, although the adaptive value of such a strong preference appears elusive and may be context-dependent.
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- Stefano Podofillini
- Dipartimento di Scienze e Politiche Ambientali, Università degli Studi di Milano, via Celoria 26, Milano, Italy
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- Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale (ISPRA), Ozzano Emilia (BO), Italy
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- Dipartimento di Biologia, Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze e Politiche Ambientali, Università degli Studi di Milano, via Celoria 26, Milano, Italy
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- Studio Naturalistico Milvus, Pignola (PZ), Italy
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- Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale (ISPRA), Ozzano Emilia (BO), Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze e Politiche Ambientali, Università degli Studi di Milano, via Celoria 26, Milano, Italy
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- Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale (ISPRA), Ozzano Emilia (BO), Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze e Politiche Ambientali, Università degli Studi di Milano, via Celoria 26, Milano, Italy
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Marx M, Reiner G, Willems H, Rocha G, Hillerich K, Masello JF, Mayr SL, Moussa S, Dunn JC, Thomas RC, Goodman SJ, Hamer KC, Metzger B, Cecere JG, Spina F, Koschkar S, Calderón L, Romeike T, Quillfeldt P. High prevalence of Trichomonas gallinae in wild columbids across western and southern Europe. Parasit Vectors 2017; 10:242. [PMID: 28521843 PMCID: PMC5437606 DOI: 10.1186/s13071-017-2170-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2016] [Accepted: 05/03/2017] [Indexed: 11/04/2022] Open
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Background Avian trichomonosis is known as a widespread disease in columbids and passerines, and recent findings have highlighted the pathogenic character of some lineages found in wild birds. Trichomonosis can affect wild bird populations including endangered species, as has been shown for Mauritian pink pigeons Nesoenas mayeri in Mauritius and suggested for European turtle doves Streptopelia turtur in the UK. However, the disease trichomonosis is caused only by pathogenic lineages of the parasite Trichomonas gallinae. Therefore, understanding the prevalence and distribution of both potentially pathogenic and non-pathogenic T. gallinae lineages in turtle doves and other columbids across Europe is relevant to estimate the potential impact of the disease on a continental scale. Results We examined 281 samples from four wild columbid species for Trichomonas infection and determined the genetic lineages. The overall prevalence was 74%. There were significant differences between the species (P = 0.007). The highest prevalence was found in stock doves Columba oenas (86%, n = 79) followed by wood pigeons Columba palumbus (70%, n = 61) and turtle doves (67%, n = 65), while three of five collared doves Streptopelia decaocto (60%) were infected. We found seven different lineages, including four lineages present in columbids in the UK, one lineage already described from Spain and three new lineages, one of those found in a single turtle dove migrating through Italy and another one found in a breeding stock dove. Stock doves from Germany and collared doves from Malta were infected with a potentially pathogenic lineage (lineage A/B), which is known to cause lesions and mortality in columbids, raptors and finches. Conclusions Generally, turtle doves showed high prevalence of Trichomonas infection. Furthermore, the potentially pathogenic lineage A/B (or genotype B according to previous literature) was found in a recovering stock dove population. Both findings are worrying for these columbid species due to the occasional epidemic character of trichomonosis, which can have severe negative effects on populations. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s13071-017-2170-0) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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- Melanie Marx
- Department of Animal Ecology & Systematics, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Heinrich-Buff-Ring 38, 35392, Giessen, Germany.
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- Department of Clinical Veterinary Sciences, Justus-Liebig-University, Frankfurter Strasse 112, 35392, Giessen, Germany
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- Department of Clinical Veterinary Sciences, Justus-Liebig-University, Frankfurter Strasse 112, 35392, Giessen, Germany
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- Department of Agro-forestry Engineering, University of Extremadura, Avda. Virgen del Puerto 2, 10600, Plasencia, Cáceres, Spain
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- Department of Animal Ecology & Systematics, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Heinrich-Buff-Ring 38, 35392, Giessen, Germany
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- Department of Clinical Veterinary Sciences, Justus-Liebig-University, Frankfurter Strasse 112, 35392, Giessen, Germany
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- Department of Animal Ecology & Systematics, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Heinrich-Buff-Ring 38, 35392, Giessen, Germany
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- School of Life Sciences, University of Lincoln, Joseph Banks Laboraties, Lincoln, LN6 7TS, UK
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- School of Biology, Irene Manton Building, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK
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- School of Biology, Irene Manton Building, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK
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- School of Biology, Irene Manton Building, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK
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- BirdLife Malta, Xemxija Waterfront Apartments, Flat 1/2, Triq Is-Simar, Xemxija, St Paul's Bay, SPB 9025, Malta
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- ISPRA, Institute for Environmental Protection and Research, Via Ca' Fornacetta 9, 40064, Ozzano Dell'Emilia, BO, Italy
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- ISPRA, Institute for Environmental Protection and Research, Via Ca' Fornacetta 9, 40064, Ozzano Dell'Emilia, BO, Italy
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- Department of Animal Ecology & Systematics, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Heinrich-Buff-Ring 38, 35392, Giessen, Germany
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- Department of Animal Ecology & Systematics, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Heinrich-Buff-Ring 38, 35392, Giessen, Germany
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- Department of Animal Ecology & Systematics, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Heinrich-Buff-Ring 38, 35392, Giessen, Germany
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Bazzi G, Cecere JG, Caprioli M, Gatti E, Gianfranceschi L, Podofillini S, Possenti CD, Ambrosini R, Saino N, Spina F, Rubolini D. Clock gene polymorphism, migratory behaviour and geographic distribution: a comparative study of trans-Saharan migratory birds. Mol Ecol 2016; 25:6077-6091. [PMID: 27862517 DOI: 10.1111/mec.13913] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2016] [Revised: 10/25/2016] [Accepted: 10/27/2016] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Migratory behaviour is controlled by endogenous circannual rhythms that are synchronized by external cues, such as photoperiod. Investigations on the genetic basis of circannual rhythmicity in vertebrates have highlighted that variation at candidate 'circadian clock' genes may play a major role in regulating photoperiodic responses and timing of life cycle events, such as reproduction and migration. In this comparative study of 23 trans-Saharan migratory bird species, we investigated the relationships between species-level genetic variation at two candidate genes, Clock and Adcyap1, and species' traits related to migration and geographic distribution, including timing of spring migration across the Mediterranean Sea, migration distance and breeding latitude. Consistently with previous evidence showing latitudinal clines in 'circadian clock' genotype frequencies, Clock allele size increased with breeding latitude across species. However, early- and late-migrating species had similar Clock allele size. Species migrating over longer distances, showing delayed spring migration and smaller phenotypic variance in spring migration timing, had significantly reduced Clock (but not Adcyap1) gene diversity. Phylogenetic confirmatory path analysis suggested that migration date and distance were the most important variables directly affecting Clock gene diversity. Hence, our study supports the hypothesis that Clock allele size increases poleward as a consequence of adaptation to the photoperiodic regime of the breeding areas. Moreover, we show that long-distance migration is associated with lower Clock diversity, coherently with strong stabilizing selection acting on timing of life cycle events in long-distance migratory species, likely resulting from the time constraints imposed by late spring migration.
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- Gaia Bazzi
- Dipartimento di Bioscienze, Università degli Studi di Milano, via Celoria 26, I-20133, Milan, Italy
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- ISPRA - Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale, via Cà Fornacetta 9, I-40064, Ozzano dell'Emilia (BO), Italy
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- Dipartimento di Bioscienze, Università degli Studi di Milano, via Celoria 26, I-20133, Milan, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Bioscienze, Università degli Studi di Milano, via Celoria 26, I-20133, Milan, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Bioscienze, Università degli Studi di Milano, via Celoria 26, I-20133, Milan, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Bioscienze, Università degli Studi di Milano, via Celoria 26, I-20133, Milan, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Bioscienze, Università degli Studi di Milano, via Celoria 26, I-20133, Milan, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Ambiente e della Terra (DISAT), Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca, Piazza della Scienza 1, I-20126, Milan, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Bioscienze, Università degli Studi di Milano, via Celoria 26, I-20133, Milan, Italy
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- ISPRA - Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale, via Cà Fornacetta 9, I-40064, Ozzano dell'Emilia (BO), Italy
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- Dipartimento di Bioscienze, Università degli Studi di Milano, via Celoria 26, I-20133, Milan, Italy
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Calderón L, Campagna L, Wilke T, Lormee H, Eraud C, Dunn JC, Rocha G, Zehtindjiev P, Bakaloudis DE, Metzger B, Cecere JG, Marx M, Quillfeldt P. Genomic evidence of demographic fluctuations and lack of genetic structure across flyways in a long distance migrant, the European turtle dove. BMC Evol Biol 2016; 16:237. [PMID: 27821052 PMCID: PMC5100323 DOI: 10.1186/s12862-016-0817-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/01/2016] [Accepted: 10/28/2016] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Understanding how past climatic oscillations have affected organismic evolution will help predict the impact that current climate change has on living organisms. The European turtle dove, Streptopelia turtur, is a warm-temperature adapted species and a long distance migrant that uses multiple flyways to move between Europe and Africa. Despite being abundant, it is categorized as vulnerable because of a long-term demographic decline. We studied the demographic history and population genetic structure of the European turtle dove using genomic data and mitochondrial DNA sequences from individuals sampled across Europe, and performing paleoclimatic niche modelling simulations. RESULTS Overall our data suggest that this species is panmictic across Europe, and is not genetically structured across flyways. We found the genetic signatures of demographic fluctuations, inferring an effective population size (Ne) expansion that occurred between the late Pleistocene and early Holocene, followed by a decrease in the Ne that started between the mid Holocene and the present. Our niche modelling analyses suggest that the variations in the Ne are coincident with recent changes in the availability of suitable habitat. CONCLUSIONS We argue that the European turtle dove is prone to undergo demographic fluctuations, a trait that makes it sensitive to anthropogenic impacts, especially when its numbers are decreasing. Also, considering the lack of genetic structure, we suggest all populations across Europe are equally relevant for conservation.
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- Luciano Calderón
- Department of Animal Ecology & Systematics, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Heinrich-Buff-Ring 82, Giessen, 35392, Germany.
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- Fuller Evolutionary Biology Program, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Road, Ithaca, NY, 14850, USA
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, 215 Tower Road, Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA
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- Department of Animal Ecology & Systematics, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Heinrich-Buff-Ring 82, Giessen, 35392, Germany
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- Unité Avifaune Migratrice, Office National de la Chasse et de la Faune Sauvage, Villiers en Bois, Chizé, 79360, France
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- Unité Avifaune Migratrice, Office National de la Chasse et de la Faune Sauvage, Villiers en Bois, Chizé, 79360, France
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- School of Life Sciences, University of Lincoln, Joseph Banks Laboratories, Lincoln, LN6 7TS, UK
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- Department of Agro-forestry Engineering, University of Extremadura, Avda. Virgen del Puerto 2, Plasencia, Cáceres, 10600, Spain
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- Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, 2 Gagarin Street, Sofia, 1113, Bulgaria
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- Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Forestry and Natural Environment, PO Box 241, Thessaloniki, 541 24, Greece
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- Instituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale, Via Ca' Fornacetta 9, Ozzano Dell'Emilia, (BO), 40064, Italy
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- Department of Animal Ecology & Systematics, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Heinrich-Buff-Ring 82, Giessen, 35392, Germany
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- Department of Animal Ecology & Systematics, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Heinrich-Buff-Ring 82, Giessen, 35392, Germany
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Bazzi G, Podofillini S, Gatti E, Gianfranceschi L, Cecere JG, Spina F, Saino N, Rubolini D. Candidate genes have sex-specific effects on timing of spring migration and moult speed in a long-distance migratory bird. Curr Zool 2016; 63:479-486. [PMID: 29492007 PMCID: PMC5804205 DOI: 10.1093/cz/zow103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2016] [Accepted: 10/07/2016] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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The timing of major life-history events, such as migration and moult, is set by endogenous circadian and circannual clocks, that have been well characterized at the molecular level. Conversely, the genetic sources of variation in phenology and in other behavioral traits have been sparsely addressed. It has been proposed that inter-individual variability in the timing of seasonal events may arise from allelic polymorphism at phenological candidate genes involved in the signaling cascade of the endogenous clocks. In this study of a long-distance migratory passerine bird, the willow warbler Phylloscopus trochilus, we investigated whether allelic variation at 5 polymorphic loci of 4 candidate genes (Adcyap1, Clock, Creb1, and Npas2), predicted 2 major components of the annual schedule, namely timing of spring migration across the central Mediterranean sea and moult speed, the latter gauged from ptilochronological analyses of tail feathers moulted in the African winter quarters. We identified a novel Clock gene locus (Clock region 3) showing polyQ polymorphism, which was however not significantly associated with any phenotypic trait. Npas2 allele size predicted male (but not female) spring migration date, with males bearing longer alleles migrating significantly earlier than those bearing shorter alleles. Creb1 allele size significantly predicted male (but not female) moult speed, longer alleles being associated with faster moult. All other genotype-phenotype associations were statistically non-significant. These findings provide new evidence for a role of candidate genes in modulating the phenology of different circannual activities in long-distance migratory birds, and for the occurrence of sex-specific candidate gene effects.
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- Gaia Bazzi
- Dipartimento di Bioscienze, Università degli Studi di Milano, via Celoria 26, Milan I-20133, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Bioscienze, Università degli Studi di Milano, via Celoria 26, Milan I-20133, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Bioscienze, Università degli Studi di Milano, via Celoria 26, Milan I-20133, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Bioscienze, Università degli Studi di Milano, via Celoria 26, Milan I-20133, Italy
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- ISPRA-Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale, via Cà Fornacetta 9, Ozzano dell'Emilia, BO I-40064, Italy
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- ISPRA-Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale, via Cà Fornacetta 9, Ozzano dell'Emilia, BO I-40064, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Bioscienze, Università degli Studi di Milano, via Celoria 26, Milan I-20133, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Bioscienze, Università degli Studi di Milano, via Celoria 26, Milan I-20133, Italy
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Reynolds AM, Paiva VH, Cecere JG, Focardi S. Lévy patterns in seabirds are multifaceted describing both spatial and temporal patterning. Front Zool 2016; 13:29. [PMID: 27366198 PMCID: PMC4928295 DOI: 10.1186/s12983-016-0160-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/19/2016] [Accepted: 06/17/2016] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Background The flight patterns of albatrosses and shearwaters have become a touchstone for much of Lévy flight research, spawning an extensive field of enquiry. There is now compelling evidence that the flight patterns of these seabirds would have been appreciated by Paul Lévy, the mathematician after whom Lévy flights are named. Here we show that Lévy patterns (here taken to mean spatial or temporal patterns characterized by distributions with power-law tails) are, in fact, multifaceted in shearwaters being evident in both spatial and temporal patterns of activity. Results We tested for Lévy patterns in the at-sea behaviours of two species of shearwater breeding in the North Atlantic Ocean (Calonectris borealis) and the Mediterranean sea (C. diomedea) during their incubating and chick-provisioning periods. We found that distributions of flight durations, on/in water durations and inter-dive time-intervals have power-law tails and so bear the hallmarks of Lévy patterns. Conclusions The occurrence of these statistical laws is remarkable given that bird behaviours are strongly shaped by an individual’s motivational state and by complex environmental interactions. Our observations could take Lévy patterns as models of animal behaviour to a new level by going beyond the characterisation of spatial movements to characterise how different behaviours are interwoven throughout daily animal life.
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- MARE - Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre, Department of Life Sciences, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, 3004-517 Portugal
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- ISPRA, Ozzano dell'Emilia, 40064 Italy ; LIPU, Conservation Department, Parma, 43100 Italy
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Bazzi G, Galimberti A, Hays QR, Bruni I, Cecere JG, Gianfranceschi L, Hobson KA, Morbey YE, Saino N, Guglielmo CG, Rubolini D. Adcyap1 polymorphism covaries with breeding latitude in a Nearctic migratory songbird, the Wilson's warbler (Cardellina pusilla). Ecol Evol 2016; 6:3226-39. [PMID: 27252831 PMCID: PMC4870208 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.2053] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/05/2016] [Accepted: 02/12/2016] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Understanding the genetic background of complex behavioral traits, showing multigenic control and extensive environmental effects, is a challenging task. Among such traits, migration is known to show a large additive genetic component. Yet, the identification of specific genes or gene regions explaining phenotypic variance in migratory behavior has received less attention. Migration ultimately depends on seasonal cycles, and polymorphism at phenological candidate genes may underlie variation in timing of migration or other aspects of migratory behavior. In this study of a Nearctic–Neotropical migratory songbird, the Wilson's warbler (Cardellina pusilla), we investigated the association between polymorphism at two phenological candidate genes, Clock and Adcyap1, and two aspects of the migratory phenotype, timing of spring migration through a stopover site and inferred latitude of the breeding destination. The breeding destination of migrating individuals was identified using feather deuterium ratio (δ2H), which reliably reflects breeding latitude throughout the species' western breeding range. Ninety‐eight percent of the individuals were homozygous at Clock, and the rare heterozygotes did not deviate from homozygous migration phenology. Adcyap1 was highly polymorphic, and allele size was not significantly associated with migration date. However, Adcyap1 allele size significantly positively predicted the inferred breeding latitude of males but not of females. Moreover, we found a strong positive association between inferred breeding latitude and Adcyap1 allele size in long‐distance migrating birds from the northern sector of the breeding range (western Canada), while this was not the case in short‐distance migrating birds from the southern sector of the breeding range (coastal California). Our findings support previous evidence for a role of Adcyap1 in shaping the avian migratory phenotype, while highlighting that patterns of phenological candidate gene–phenotype associations may be complex, significantly varying between geographically distinct populations and even between the sexes.
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- Gaia Bazzi
- Dipartimento di Bioscienze Università degli Studi di Milano via Celoria 26 I-20133 Milan Italy
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- ZooPlantLab Dipartimento di Biotecnologie e Bioscienze Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca Piazza della Scienza 2 I-20126 Milan Italy
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- Department of Biology Advanced Facility for Avian Research University of Western Ontario London Ontario N6A 5B7 Canada; Natural Resources Department Eastern New Mexico University - Ruidoso Ruidoso New Mexico 88345
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- ZooPlantLab Dipartimento di Biotecnologie e Bioscienze Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca Piazza della Scienza 2 I-20126 Milan Italy
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- ISPRA - Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale Via Cà Fornacetta 9 I-40064 Ozzano dell'Emilia (BO) Italy
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- Dipartimento di Bioscienze Università degli Studi di Milano via Celoria 26 I-20133 Milan Italy
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- Department of Biology Advanced Facility for Avian Research University of Western Ontario London Ontario N6A 5B7 Canada; Environment Canada 11 Innovation Boulevard Saskatoon Saskatchewan S7N 3H5 Canada
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- Department of Biology Advanced Facility for Avian Research University of Western Ontario London Ontario N6A 5B7 Canada
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- Dipartimento di Bioscienze Università degli Studi di Milano via Celoria 26 I-20133 Milan Italy
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- Department of Biology Advanced Facility for Avian Research University of Western Ontario London Ontario N6A 5B7 Canada
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- Dipartimento di Bioscienze Università degli Studi di Milano via Celoria 26 I-20133 Milan Italy
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Reynolds AM, Cecere JG, Paiva VH, Ramos JA, Focardi S. Pelagic seabird flight patterns are consistent with a reliance on olfactory maps for oceanic navigation. Proc Biol Sci 2016; 282:rspb.2015.0468. [PMID: 26136443 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2015.0468] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Homing studies have provided tantalizing evidence that the remarkable ability of shearwaters (Procellariiformes) to pinpoint their breeding colony after crossing vast expanses of featureless open ocean can be attributed to their assembling cognitive maps of wind-borne odours but crucially, it has not been tested whether olfactory cues are actually used as a system for navigation. Obtaining statistically important samples of wild birds for use in experimental approaches is, however, impossible because of invasive sensory manipulation. Using an innovative non-invasive approach, we provide strong evidence that shearwaters rely on olfactory cues for oceanic navigation. We tested for compliance with olfactory-cued navigation in the flight patterns of 210 shearwaters of three species (Cory's shearwaters, Calonectris borealis, North Atlantic Ocean, Scopoli's shearwaters, C. diomedea Mediterranean Sea, and Cape Verde shearwaters, C. edwardsii, Central Atlantic Ocean) tagged with high-resolution GPS loggers during both incubation and chick rearing.We found that most (69%) birds displayed exponentially truncated scale-free(Lévy-flight like) displacements, which we show are consistent with olfactory-cued navigation in the presence of atmospheric turbulence. Our analysis provides the strongest evidence yet for cognitive odour map navigation in wild birds. Thus, we may reconcile two highly disputed questions in movement ecology, by mechanistically connecting Lévy displacements and olfactory navigation. Our approach can be applied to any species which can be tracked at sufficient spatial resolution, using a GPS logger.
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Cecere JG, Caprioli M, Carnevali C, Colombo G, Dalle-Donne I, Mancuso E, Milzani A, Parolini M, Portanova A, Saino N, Serra L, Rubolini D. Dietary flavonoids advance timing of moult but do not affect redox status of juvenile blackbirds (Turdus merula). J Exp Biol 2016; 219:3155-3162. [DOI: 10.1242/jeb.141424] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/06/2016] [Accepted: 07/26/2016] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Flavonoids are the most abundant plant polyphenols, widely occurring in fruits and berries, and show a strong antioxidant activity in vitro. Studies of avian species feeding on berries suggest that dietary flavonoids have health-promoting effects and may enhance the expression of melanin-based plumage traits. These effects are likely mediated by the antioxidant activity of flavonoids. However, the effect of dietary flavonoids on oxidative status has never been investigated in any bird species. We analysed the effects of dietary flavonoids on blood non-enzymatic antioxidants and protein oxidative damage of juvenile European blackbirds (Turdus merula). In addition, we analysed the effects of the flavonoid-enriched diet on body condition and on timing of moult from juvenile to adult plumage. Dietary flavonoids did not significantly affect the redox status but significantly advanced the onset of moult, hastening plumage development. Moulting birds showed higher protein oxidative damage compared to those that had not yet started moulting. The probability to initiate moult after 40 days of dietary treatment was higher for birds with low circulating levels of oxidizing agents and high glutathione concentration. The metabolization of flavonoids could have altered their redox potential, resulting in not net effects on redox status. However, flavonoid consumption before and during moult may contribute to enhance plumage development. Moreover, our findings suggest that moulting feathers may result in redox imbalance. Given their effect on moult and growth of melanin-rich feathers, fruit flavonoids may have contributed to the evolution of plant fruiting time in relation to fruit consumption preferences by birds.
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- Jacopo G. Cecere
- ISPRA – Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale, Via Cà Fornacetta 9, I-40064 Ozzano dell'Emilia (BO), Italy
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- Dipartimento di Bioscienze, Università degli Studi di Milano, via Celoria 26, I-20133 Milan, Italy
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- ISPRA – Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale, Via Cà Fornacetta 9, I-40064 Ozzano dell'Emilia (BO), Italy
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- Dipartimento di Bioscienze, Università degli Studi di Milano, via Celoria 26, I-20133 Milan, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Bioscienze, Università degli Studi di Milano, via Celoria 26, I-20133 Milan, Italy
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- ISPRA – Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale, Via Cà Fornacetta 9, I-40064 Ozzano dell'Emilia (BO), Italy
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- Dipartimento di Bioscienze, Università degli Studi di Milano, via Celoria 26, I-20133 Milan, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Bioscienze, Università degli Studi di Milano, via Celoria 26, I-20133 Milan, Italy
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- ISPRA – Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale, Via Cà Fornacetta 9, I-40064 Ozzano dell'Emilia (BO), Italy
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- Dipartimento di Bioscienze, Università degli Studi di Milano, via Celoria 26, I-20133 Milan, Italy
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- ISPRA – Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale, Via Cà Fornacetta 9, I-40064 Ozzano dell'Emilia (BO), Italy
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- Dipartimento di Bioscienze, Università degli Studi di Milano, via Celoria 26, I-20133 Milan, Italy
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Saino N, Bazzi G, Gatti E, Caprioli M, Cecere JG, Possenti CD, Galimberti A, Orioli V, Bani L, Rubolini D, Gianfranceschi L, Spina F. Polymorphism at theClockgene predicts phenology of long-distance migration in birds. Mol Ecol 2015; 24:1758-73. [DOI: 10.1111/mec.13159] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2014] [Revised: 03/13/2015] [Accepted: 03/13/2015] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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- Nicola Saino
- Department of Biosciences; University of Milan; via Celoria 26 Milan I-20133 Italy
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- Department of Biosciences; University of Milan; via Celoria 26 Milan I-20133 Italy
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- Department of Biosciences; University of Milan; via Celoria 26 Milan I-20133 Italy
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- Department of Biosciences; University of Milan; via Celoria 26 Milan I-20133 Italy
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- ISPRA-Italian Institute for Environmental Protection and Research; Via Cà Fornacetta 9 Ozzano dell'Emilia I-40064 Italy
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- Department of Biosciences; University of Milan; via Celoria 26 Milan I-20133 Italy
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- Department of Biotechnology and Biosciences; University of Milano-Bicocca; Piazza della Scienza 2 Milan I-20126 Italy
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- Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences; University of Milano-Bicocca; Piazza della Scienza 1 Milan I-20126 Italy
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- Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences; University of Milano-Bicocca; Piazza della Scienza 1 Milan I-20126 Italy
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- Department of Biosciences; University of Milan; via Celoria 26 Milan I-20133 Italy
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- Department of Biosciences; University of Milan; via Celoria 26 Milan I-20133 Italy
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- ISPRA-Italian Institute for Environmental Protection and Research; Via Cà Fornacetta 9 Ozzano dell'Emilia I-40064 Italy
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Rubolini D, Maggini I, Ambrosini R, Imperio S, Paiva VH, Gaibani G, Saino N, Cecere JG. The Effect of Moonlight on Scopoli's ShearwaterCalonectris diomedeaColony Attendance Patterns and Nocturnal Foraging: A Test of the Foraging Efficiency Hypothesis. Ethology 2014. [DOI: 10.1111/eth.12338] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Diego Rubolini
- Dipartimento di Bioscienze; Università degli Studi di Milano; Milano Italy
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- Advanced Facility for Avian Research; University of Western Ontario; London ON Canada
- Conservation Department; LIPU-BirdLife Italy; Parma Italy
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- Dipartimento di Biotecnologie e Bioscienze; Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca; Milano Italy
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- ISAC-CNR - Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate; Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche; Torino Italy
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- IMAR-CMA Marine and Environmental Research Centre; Department of Life Sciences; University of Coimbra; Coimbra Portugal
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- Dipartimento di Bioscienze; Università degli Studi di Milano; Milano Italy
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- Conservation Department; LIPU-BirdLife Italy; Parma Italy
- ISPRA - Italian Institute for Environmental Protection and Research; Ozzano dell'Emilia Italy
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Cecere JG, Benedetti MC, Guj I, Imperio S. The role of the red fox as a predator of species of human concern in a mediterranean rural habitat: A case Study. RUSS J ECOL+ 2014. [DOI: 10.1134/s106741361406006x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Cecere JG, Gaibani G, Imperio S. Effects of environmental variability and offspring growth on the movement ecology of breeding Scopoli’s shearwater Calonectris diomedea. Curr Zool 2014. [DOI: 10.1093/czoolo/60.5.622] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Most seabird species display colonial behavior during the breeding period which implies that food resources around breeding sites can easily go depleted. Seabirds need to both reach profitable areas, which can be located far from the colony, and return to the colony regularly. In this context, flexibility in movement behavior may be crucial for breeding success. During chick-rearing, Procellariformes species can alternate short trips lasting 1–4 days for chick provisioning with longer trips for self-provisioning in what has been called a dual-foraging strategy. We analyzed foraging trips from 136 Scopoli’s shearwaters from three Mediterranean colonies tracked with GPS during 6 chick-rearing seasons to assess whether the adoption of a dual foraging strategy depends on the quality of habitat surrounding the colony. We found a marked dual-foraging strategy only in birds from the Linosa colony which was the largest colony in terms of breeding pairs and was characterized by having a lower marine habitat quality. Birds from this colony performed foraging trips that extended up to 369 km from the nest and lasted more than 10 days. In general, the decision to perform long lasting trips was triggered by lower values of primary production and higher offspring weight. Contrary to expectation, the decision to feed far from the colony was not related to the parents’ weight. At the same time, despite the higher productivity offered by distant areas, the higher proportion of long trips performed by birds breeding in poor areas was not sufficient to maintain the same body mass as the ones breeding in richer areas.
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- Jacopo G. Cecere
- ISPRA – Institute for Environmental Protection and Research, Ozzano dell’Emilia, Italy
- Conservation Department, LIPU-BirdLife Italy, Parma, Italy
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- ISAC-CNR - Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Torino, Italy
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Toma L, Mancini F, Di Luca M, Cecere JG, Bianchi R, Khoury C, Quarchioni E, Manzia F, Rezza G, Ciervo A. Detection of microbial agents in ticks collected from migratory birds in central Italy. Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis 2014; 14:199-205. [PMID: 24576218 DOI: 10.1089/vbz.2013.1458] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Tick species characterization and molecular studies were performed within ornithological surveys conducted during 2010 and 2011 in the Lazio Region of central Italy. A total of 137 ticks were collected from 41 migratory birds belonging to 17 species (four partial migrants and 13 long-distance migrants). Most ticks were nymphs, with a predominance of Hyalomma marginatum marginatum and H. m. rufipes, and a small portion of Ixodes and Amblyomma species. All tick species analyzed were infected, and the molecular pathogen recognition revealed the presence of Rickettsia aeschlimannii, Rickettsia africae, Erlichia spp., Coxiella burnetii, Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato group, and Babesia microti, whereas no genomic DNA of Bartonella spp. or Francisella tularensis was detected. The results of the survey show that H. marginatum ticks appear to be a vector of microbial agents that may affect human and animal health and that migratory birds may be an important carrier of these ticks. Additional studies are needed to better investigate the role of migratory birds in the epidemiology of these pathogens.
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- Luciano Toma
- 1 Department of Infectious, Parasitic and Immuno-mediated Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità , Rome, Italy
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Abstract
Lévy flight foraging represents an innovative paradigm for the analysis of animal random search by including models of heavy-tailed distribution of move length, which complements the correlated random walk paradigm that is founded on Brownian walks. Theory shows that the efficiency of the different foraging tactics is a function of prey abundance and dynamics with Lévy flight being especially efficient in poor prey fields. Lévy flights have been controversial in some quarters, because they previously have been wrongly ascribed to many species through the employment of inappropriate statistical techniques and by misunderstanding movement pattern data. More recent studies using state-of-the-art statistical tools have, however, provided seemingly compelling evidence for Lévy flights. In this study, we employ these maximum-likelihood methods and their Bayesian equivalents by analysing both turning angles and move length distributions. We tested, for compliance with Lévy flight foraging, a set of 77 independent foraging trajectories of Cory's shearwaters Calonectris diomedea diomedea. Birds were tagged with high-resolution GPS loggers in two Mediterranean colonies (Linosa and Tremiti) during both incubation and chick rearing. We found that the behaviour of six birds was fitted by a correlated random walk; the movement of 32 birds was better represented by adaptive correlated random walks by switching from intensive to extensive searches; and the trajectories of 36 birds were fitted by a Lévy flight pattern of movement. The probability of performing Lévy flights was higher for trips during chick provisioning when shearwaters were forced to forage in suboptimal areas. This study supports Lévy flight foraging as an appropriate framework to analyse search tactics in this pelagic bird species and highlights that the adoption of a given search strategy is a function of biological and ecological constraints.
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Affiliation(s)
- Stefano Focardi
- Istituto dei Sistemi Complessi, via Madonna del Piano 10, Sesto Fiorentino, 50019, Italy
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- ISPRA - Institute for Environmental Protection and Research, Via Cà Fornacetta 9, Ozzano dell'Emilia, 40064, Italy.,Conservation Department, LIPU-BirdLife Italy, via Udine 3/a, Parma, 43100, Italy
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Mortelliti A, Sozio G, Boccacci F, Ranchelli E, Cecere JG, Battisti C, Boitani L. Effect of habitat amount, configuration and quality in fragmented landscapes. Acta Oecologica 2012. [DOI: 10.1016/j.actao.2012.08.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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