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Hämäläinen R, Kajanus MH, Forsman JT, Kivelä SM, Seppänen JT, Loukola OJ. Ecological and evolutionary consequences of selective interspecific information use. Ecol Lett 2023; 26:490-503. [PMID: 36849224 DOI: 10.1111/ele.14184] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [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: 03/28/2022] [Revised: 02/02/2023] [Accepted: 02/04/2023] [Indexed: 03/01/2023]
Abstract
Recent work has shown that animals frequently use social information from individuals of their own species as well as from other species; however, the ecological and evolutionary consequences of this social information use remain poorly understood. Additionally, information users may be selective in their social information use, deciding from whom and how to use information, but this has been overlooked in an interspecific context. In particular, the intentional decision to reject a behaviour observed via social information has received less attention, although recent work has indicated its presence in various taxa. Based on existing literature, we explore in which circumstances selective interspecific information use may lead to different ecological and coevolutionary outcomes between two species, such as explaining observed co-occurrences of putative competitors. The initial ecological differences and the balance between the costs of competition and the benefits of social information use potentially determine whether selection may lead to trait divergence, convergence or coevolutionary arms race between two species. We propose that selective social information use, including adoption and rejection of behaviours, may have far-reaching fitness consequences, potentially leading to community-level eco-evolutionary outcomes. We argue that these consequences of selective interspecific information use may be much more widespread than has thus far been considered.
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- Ecology and Genetics, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
- Department of Biological and Environmental Science, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
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- Ecology and Genetics, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
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Scholier T, Lavrinienko A, Brila I, Tukalenko E, Hindström R, Vasylenko A, Cayol C, Ecke F, Singh NJ, Forsman JT, Tolvanen A, Matala J, Huitu O, Kallio ER, Koskela E, Mappes T, Watts PC. Urban forest soils harbour distinct and more diverse communities of bacteria and fungi compared to less disturbed forest soils. Mol Ecol 2023; 32:504-517. [PMID: 36318600 DOI: 10.1111/mec.16754] [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] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/16/2021] [Revised: 10/10/2022] [Accepted: 10/21/2022] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Anthropogenic changes to land use drive concomitant changes in biodiversity, including that of the soil microbiota. However, it is not clear how increasing intensity of human disturbance is reflected in the soil microbial communities. To address this issue, we used amplicon sequencing to quantify the microbiota (bacteria and fungi) in the soil of forests (n = 312) experiencing four different land uses, national parks (set aside for nature conservation), managed (for forestry purposes), suburban (on the border of an urban area) and urban (fully within a town or city), which broadly represent a gradient of anthropogenic disturbance. Alpha diversity of bacteria and fungi increased with increasing levels of anthropogenic disturbance, and was thus highest in urban forest soils and lowest in the national parks. The forest soil microbial communities were structured according to the level of anthropogenic disturbance, with a clear urban signature evident in both bacteria and fungi. Despite notable differences in community composition, there was little change in the predicted functional traits of urban bacteria. By contrast, urban soils exhibited a marked loss of ectomycorrhizal fungi. Soil pH was positively correlated with the level of disturbance, and thus was the strongest predictor of variation in alpha and beta diversity of forest soil communities, indicating a role of soil alkalinity in structuring urban soil microbial communities. Hence, our study shows how the properties of urban forest soils promote an increase in microbial diversity and a change in forest soil microbiota composition.
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- Tiffany Scholier
- Department of Biological and Environmental Science, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
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- Department of Biological and Environmental Science, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland.,Laboratory of Food Systems Biotechnology, Institute of Food, Nutrition and Health, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Department of Biological and Environmental Science, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland.,Ecology and Genetics Unit, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
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- Department of Biological and Environmental Science, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
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- Department of Biological and Environmental Science, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland.,Ecology and Genetics Unit, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
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- Department of Biological and Environmental Science, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
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- Department of Wildlife, Fish, and Environmental Studies, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå, Sweden.,The Pirbright Institute, Pirbright, UK
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- Department of Wildlife, Fish, and Environmental Studies, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå, Sweden.,Organismal and Evolutionary Biology Research Programme, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Wildlife, Fish, and Environmental Studies, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå, Sweden
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- Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke), Helsinki, Finland
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- Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke), Helsinki, Finland
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- Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke), Helsinki, Finland
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- Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke), Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Biological and Environmental Science, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
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- Department of Biological and Environmental Science, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
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- Department of Biological and Environmental Science, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
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- Department of Biological and Environmental Science, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
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Hämäläinen R, Välimäki P, Forsman JT. Size of an interspecific competitor may be a source of information in reproductive decisions. Behav Ecol 2022; 34:33-41. [PMID: 36789394 PMCID: PMC9918860 DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arac094] [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] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/26/2022] [Revised: 08/17/2022] [Accepted: 09/16/2022] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
Abstract
Animals use inter-specific cues as a source of information in decisions-making, but the full costs and benefits of inter-specific information use are unknown. We tested whether pied flycatchers use the body size and clutch size of great tits as cues in their reproductive decisions and what are the possible fitness consequences as a function of great tit size. The size of great tit females associated positively with flycatcher's probability to settle near a tit nest over a territory further away. Flycatcher egg mass was positively correlated with great tit female size regardless of flycatcher territory choice. However, in flycatchers that had chosen to nest near great tits, the size of nestlings decreased in relation to increasing great tit female size. Our results demonstrate the use of size of inter-specifics as a cue in reproductive decisions and the trade-off between the value of information and costs of competition information users face when using inter-specific information in decision-making.
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- University of Oulu, Pentti Kaiteran katu 1, 90570 Oulu, Finland
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- University of Oulu, Pentti Kaiteran katu 1, 90570 Oulu, Finland,Natural Resources Institute Finland, Paavo Havaksen tie 3, 90570 Oulu, Finland
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Heim W, Piironen A, Heim RJ, Piha M, Seimola T, Forsman JT, Laaksonen T. Effects of multiple targeted repelling measures on the behaviour of individually tracked birds in an area of increasing human‐wildlife conflict. J Appl Ecol 2022. [DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.14297] [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]
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- Wieland Heim
- University of Turku Department of Biology Turku Finland
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- University of Turku Department of Biology Turku Finland
- University of Zurich Switzerland
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- Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luonnonvarakeskus/LUKE) Finland
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- Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luonnonvarakeskus/LUKE) Finland
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- Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luonnonvarakeskus/LUKE) Finland
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Forsman JT, Kivelä SM, Tolvanen J, Loukola OJ. Conceptual preferences can be transmitted via selective social information use between competing wild bird species. R Soc Open Sci 2022; 9:220292. [PMID: 35719877 PMCID: PMC9198510 DOI: 10.1098/rsos.220292] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [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: 03/14/2022] [Accepted: 05/19/2022] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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Concept learning is considered a high-level adaptive ability. Thus far, it has been studied in laboratory via asocial trial and error learning. Yet, social information use is common among animals but it remains unknown whether concept learning by observing others occurs. We tested whether pied flycatchers (Ficedula hypoleuca) form conceptual relationships from the apparent choices of nest-site characteristics (geometric symbol attached to the nest-box) of great tits (Parus major). Each wild flycatcher female (n = 124) observed one tit pair that exhibited an apparent preference for either a large or a small symbol and was then allowed to choose between two nest-boxes with a large and a small symbol, but the symbol shape was different to that on the tit nest. Older flycatcher females were more likely to copy the symbol size preference of tits than yearling flycatcher females when there was a high number of visible eggs or a few partially visible eggs in the tit nest. However, this depended on the phenotype, copying switched to rejection as a function of increasing body size. Possibly the quality of and overlap in resource use with the tits affected flycatchers' decisions. Hence, our results suggest that conceptual preferences can be horizontally transmitted across coexisting animals, which may increase the performance of individuals that use concept learning abilities in their decision-making.
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- Jukka T. Forsman
- Department of Ecology and Genetics, University of Oulu, PO Box 3000, 90014, Finland
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- Department of Ecology and Genetics, University of Oulu, PO Box 3000, 90014, Finland
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- Department of Ecology and Genetics, University of Oulu, PO Box 3000, 90014, Finland
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- Department of Ecology and Genetics, University of Oulu, PO Box 3000, 90014, Finland
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Kajanus MH, Forsman JT, Vollstädt MGR, Devictor V, Elo M, Lehikoinen A, Mönkkönen M, Thorson JT, Kivelä SM. Titmice are a better indicator of bird density in Northern European than in Western European forests. Ecol Evol 2022; 12:e8479. [PMID: 35169444 PMCID: PMC8840900 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.8479] [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] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2021] [Revised: 11/12/2021] [Accepted: 12/03/2021] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Population sizes of many birds are declining alarmingly and methods for estimating fluctuations in species’ abundances at a large spatial scale are needed. The possibility to derive indicators from the tendency of specific species to co‐occur with others has been overlooked. Here, we tested whether the abundance of resident titmice can act as a general ecological indicator of forest bird density in European forests. Titmice species are easily identifiable and have a wide distribution, which makes them potentially useful ecological indicators. Migratory birds often use information on the density of resident birds, such as titmice, as a cue for habitat selection. Thus, the density of residents may potentially affect community dynamics. We examined spatio‐temporal variation in titmouse abundance and total bird abundance, each measured as biomass, by using long‐term citizen science data on breeding forest birds in Finland and France. We analyzed the variation in observed forest bird density (excluding titmice) in relation to titmouse abundance. In Finland, forest bird density linearly increased with titmouse abundance. In France, forest bird density nonlinearly increased with titmouse abundance, the association weakening toward high titmouse abundance. We then analyzed whether the abundance (measured as biomass) of random species sets could predict forest bird density better than titmouse abundance. Random species sets outperformed titmice as an indicator of forest bird density only in 4.4% and 24.2% of the random draws, in Finland and France, respectively. Overall, the results suggest that titmice could act as an indicator of bird density in Northern European forest bird communities, encouraging the use of titmice observations by even less‐experienced observers in citizen science monitoring of general forest bird density.
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- Mira H. Kajanus
- Department of Ecology and Genetics University of Oulu Oulu Finland
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- Department of Ecology and Genetics University of Oulu Oulu Finland
- Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate GLOBE Institute University of Copenhagen Copenhagen Denmark
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- Department of Biological and Environmental Science University of Jyväskylä Jyväskylä Finland
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- Department of Biological and Environmental Science University of Jyväskylä Jyväskylä Finland
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- Department of Ecology and Genetics University of Oulu Oulu Finland
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Kojola I, Hallikainen V, Heikkinen S, Forsman JT, Kukko T, Pusenius J, Antti P. Calf/female ratio and population dynamics of wild forest reindeer in relation to wolf and moose abundances in a managed European ecosystem. PLoS One 2021; 16:e0259246. [PMID: 34965254 PMCID: PMC8716057 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0259246] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [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: 01/25/2021] [Accepted: 10/17/2021] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND The alternative prey hypothesis describes the mechanism for apparent competition whereby the mortality of the secondary prey species increases (and population size decreases decreases) by the increased predation by the shared predator if the population size of the primary prey decreases. Apparent competition is a process where the abundance of two co-existing prey species are negatively associated because they share a mutual predator, which negatively affects the abundance of both prey Here, we examined whether alternative prey and/or apparent competition hypothesis can explain the population dynamics and reproductive output of the secondary prey, wild forest reindeer (Rangifer tarandus fennicus) in Finland, in a predator-prey community in which moose (Alces alces) is the primary prey and the wolf (Canis lupus) is the generalist predator. METHODS We examined a 22-year time series (1996-2017) to determine how the population size and the calf/female ratio of wild forest reindeer in Eastern Finland were related to the abundances of wolf and moose. Only moose population size was regulated by hunting. Summer predation of wolves on reindeer focuses on calves. We used least squares regression (GLS) models (for handling autocorrelated error structures and resulting pseudo-R2s) and generalized linear mixed (GLMs) models (for avoidance of negative predictions) to determine the relationships between abundances. We performed linear and general linear models for the calf/female ratio of reindeer. RESULTS AND SYNTHESIS The trends in reindeer population size and moose abundance were almost identical: an increase during the first years and then a decrease until the last years of our study period. Wolf population size in turn did not show long-term trends. Change in reindeer population size between consecutive winters was related positively to the calf/female ratio. The calf/female ratio was negatively related to wolf population size, but the reindeer population size was related to the wolf population only when moose abundance was entered as another independent variable. The wolf population was not related to moose abundance even though it is likely to consist the majority of the prey biomass. Because reindeer and moose populations were positively associated, our results seemed to support the alternative prey hypothesis more than the apparent competition hypothesis. However, these two hypotheses are not mutually exclusive and the primary mechanism is difficult to distinguish as the system is heavily managed by moose hunting. The recovery of wild forest reindeer in eastern Finland probably requires ecosystem management involving both habitat restoration and control of species abundances.
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- Ilpo Kojola
- Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke), Ounasjoentie, Rovaniemi, Finland
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- Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke), Ounasjoentie, Rovaniemi, Finland
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- Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke), Paavo Havaksentie, Oulu, Finland
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- Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke), Paavo Havaksentie, Oulu, Finland
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- Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke), Survontie, Jyväskylä, Finland
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- Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke), Yliopistonkatu, Joensuu, Finland
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- Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke), Paavo Havaksentie, Oulu, Finland
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Rigal S, Devictor V, Gaüzère P, Kéfi S, Forsman JT, Kajanus MH, Mönkkönen M, Dakos V. Biotic homogenisation in bird communities leads to large‐scale changes in species associations. OIKOS 2021. [DOI: 10.1111/oik.08756] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Stanislas Rigal
- ISEM, Univ. de Montpellier, CNRS, IRD, EPHE Montpellier France
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- Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Univ. of Savoie Mont Blanc, LECA, Laboratoire d'Écologie Alpine Grenoble France
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- ISEM, Univ. de Montpellier, CNRS, IRD, EPHE Montpellier France
- Santa Fe Inst. Santa Fe NM USA
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- Dept of Ecology and Genetics, Univ. of Oulu Oulu Finland
- Natural Resources Inst. Finland Oulu Finland
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- Dept of Biological and Environmental Science, Univ. of Jyvaskyla Jyväskylä Finland
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- ISEM, Univ. de Montpellier, CNRS, IRD, EPHE Montpellier France
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Aminikhah M, Forsman JT, Koskela E, Mappes T, Sane J, Ollgren J, Kivelä SM, Kallio ER. Rodent host population dynamics drive zoonotic Lyme Borreliosis and Orthohantavirus infections in humans in Northern Europe. Sci Rep 2021; 11:16128. [PMID: 34373474 PMCID: PMC8352996 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-95000-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [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: 02/02/2021] [Accepted: 07/19/2021] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
Abstract
Zoonotic diseases, caused by pathogens transmitted between other vertebrate animals and humans, pose a major risk to human health. Rodents are important reservoir hosts for many zoonotic pathogens, and rodent population dynamics affect the infection dynamics of rodent-borne diseases, such as diseases caused by hantaviruses. However, the role of rodent population dynamics in determining the infection dynamics of rodent-associated tick-borne diseases, such as Lyme borreliosis (LB), caused by Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato bacteria, have gained limited attention in Northern Europe, despite the multiannual abundance fluctuations, the so-called vole cycles, that characterise rodent population dynamics in the region. Here, we quantify the associations between rodent abundance and LB human cases and Puumala Orthohantavirus (PUUV) infections by using two time series (25-year and 9-year) in Finland. Both bank vole (Myodes glareolus) abundance as well as LB and PUUV infection incidence in humans showed approximately 3-year cycles. Without vector transmitted PUUV infections followed the bank vole host abundance fluctuations with two-month time lag, whereas tick-transmitted LB was associated with bank vole abundance ca. 12 and 24 months earlier. However, the strength of association between LB incidence and bank vole abundance ca. 12 months before varied over the study years. This study highlights that the human risk to acquire rodent-borne pathogens, as well as rodent-associated tick-borne pathogens is associated with the vole cycles in Northern Fennoscandia, yet with complex time lags.
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- Mahdi Aminikhah
- Department of Ecology and Genetics, University of Oulu, PO Box 3000, 90014, Oulu, Finland.
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- Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke), University of Oulu, Paavo Havaksen tie 3, 90014, Oulu, Finland
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- Department of Biological and Environmental Science, University of Jyväskylä, P.O. Box 35, 40014, Jyväskylä, Finland
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- Department of Biological and Environmental Science, University of Jyväskylä, P.O. Box 35, 40014, Jyväskylä, Finland
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- Department of Health Security, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Health Security, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Ecology and Genetics, University of Oulu, PO Box 3000, 90014, Oulu, Finland
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- Department of Biological and Environmental Science, University of Jyväskylä, P.O. Box 35, 40014, Jyväskylä, Finland.
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- Jukka T. Forsman
- Dept of Ecology and Genetics, Univ. of Oulu Finland
- Natural Resources Inst. Finland (Luke) Oulu Finland
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Møller AP, Balbontín J, Dhondt AA, Adriaensen F, Artemyev A, Bańbura J, Barba E, Biard C, Blondel J, Bouvier J, Camprodon J, Cecere F, Charter M, Cichoń M, Cusimano C, Dubiec A, Doligez B, Eens M, Eeva T, Ferns PN, Forsman JT, Goldshtein A, Goodenough AE, Gosler AG, Gustafsson L, Harnist I, Hartley IR, Heeb P, Hinsley SA, Jacob S, Järvinen A, Juškaitis R, Korpimäki E, Krams I, Laaksonen T, Leclercq B, Lehikoinen E, Loukola O, Mainwaring MC, Mänd R, Massa B, Matthysen E, Mazgajski TD, Merino S, Mitrus C, Mönkkönen M, Nager RG, Nilsson J, Nilsson SG, Norte AC, von Numers M, Orell M, Pimentel CS, Pinxten R, Priedniece I, Remeš V, Richner H, Robles H, Rytkönen S, Senar JC, Seppänen JT, da Silva LP, Slagsvold T, Solonen T, Sorace A, Stenning MJ, Török J, Tryjanowski P, van Noordwijk AJ, Walankiewicz W, Lambrechts MM. Interaction of climate change with effects of conspecific and heterospecific density on reproduction. OIKOS 2020. [DOI: 10.1111/oik.07305] [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]
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- Anders Pape Møller
- Ecologie Systematique Evolution, CNRS, AgroParisTech, Univ. Paris-Saclay Orsay Cedex France
- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Biodiversity Science and Ecological Engineering, College of Life Sciences, Beijing Normal Univ. Beijing PR China
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- Inst. of Biology of the Karelian Research Centre, Russian Academy of Sciences (IB KRC RAS) Russia
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- Dept of Experimental Zoology and Evolutionary Biology, Univ. of Łodź Łodź Poland
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- Terrestrial Vertebrates Research Unit ‘Cavanilles’, Inst. of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology, Univ. of Valencia Paterna Spain
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- Sorbonne Univ., UPEC, Paris 7, CNRS, INRA, IRD, Inst. d'Écologie et des Sciences de l'Environnement de Paris, iEES Paris Paris France
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- Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, CEFE UMR 5175 Montpellier France
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- Àrea de Biodiversitat, Grup de Biologia de la Conservació, Centre Tecnològic Forestal de Catalunya Solsona Spain
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- Shamir Research Institute and Dept of Evolutionary and Environmental Biology, Univ. of Haifa Haifa Israel
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- Jagiellonian Univ., Inst. of Environmental Sciences Krakow Poland
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- CNRS, Dept of Biometry and Evolutionary Biology, Univ. de Lyon Villeurbanne France
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- Museum and Inst. of Zoology, Polish Academy of Sciences Warsaw Poland
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- Dept of Biology, Univ. of Antwerp Antwerp Belgium
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- Dept of Biology, Univ. of Turku Turku Finland
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- Cardiff Univ., School of Biosciences, Cardiff S Glam Wales
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- Dept of Natural and Social Sciences, Univ. of Gloucestershire Cheltenham UK
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- Dept of Zoology, Edward Grey Inst. of Field Ornithology and Inst. of Human Sciences Oxford UK
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- Dept of Ecology and Genetics/Animal Ecology, Evolutionary Biology Centre, Uppsala Univ. Uppsala Sweden
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- Museum and Inst. of Zoology, Polish Academy of Sciences Warsaw Poland
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- Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster Univ. Lancaster UK
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- Laboratoire Évolution & Diversité Biologique, UPS Toulouse III Toulouse France
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- Station d'Ecologie Théorique et Expérimentale Moulis France
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- Univ. Tartu, Inst. of Ecology and Earth Sciences Tartu Estonia
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- Dept of Ecology and Genetics, Univ. of Oulu Finland
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- Univ. Tartu, Inst. of Ecology and Earth Sciences Tartu Estonia
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- CSIC, Depto de Ecología Evolutiva Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas CSIC Madrid Spain
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- Dept of Vertebrate Ecology and Palaeontology, Wrocław Univ. of Environmental and Life Sciences Wrocław Poland
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- Univ. of Jyväskylä, Dept of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Univ. of Jyväskylä Finland
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- Inst. of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, Univ. of Glasgow Glasgow UK
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- MARE – Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre, Dept of Life Sciences, Univ. of Coimbra Coimbra Portugal
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- Dept of Ecology and Genetics, Univ. of Oulu Finland
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- Centro de Estudos Florestais, Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Univ. of Lisbon Lisbon Portugal
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- Behavioural Ecology and Ecophysiology Research Group, Dept of Biology, Wilrijk and Faculty of Social Sciences, Research Unit Didactica, Univ. of Antwerp Antwerp Belgium
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- Laboratory of Ornithology, Dept of Zoology, Palacky Univ. Olomouc Czech Republic
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- Univ. of Bern, Inst. of Ecology and Evolution (IEE) Bern Switzerland
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- Evolutionary Ecology Group (GIBE), Falculty of Sciences, Univ. of A Coruña A Coruña Spain
- Evolutionary Ecology Group (EVECO), Dept of Biology, Univ. of Antwerp Antwerp Belgium
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- Unidad de Ecología Evolutiva y de la Conducta, Museu de Ciències Naturals de Barcelona Barcelona Spain
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- Univ. of Jyväskylä, Dept of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Univ. of Jyväskylä Finland
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- CIBIO-InBIO, Research Center in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources, Univ. of Porto Vairão Portugal
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- Dept of Systematic Zoology and Ecology, ELTE Eötvös Lorand Univ. Budapest Hungary
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- Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, CEFE UMR 5175, Campus CNRS Montpellier France
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Tolvanen J, Kivelä SM, Doligez B, Morinay J, Gustafsson L, Bijma P, Pakanen VM, Forsman JT. Quantitative genetics of the use of conspecific and heterospecific social cues for breeding site choice. Evolution 2020; 74:2332-2347. [PMID: 32725635 PMCID: PMC7589285 DOI: 10.1111/evo.14071] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [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: 05/03/2019] [Revised: 07/04/2020] [Accepted: 07/23/2020] [Indexed: 12/03/2022]
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Social information use for decision‐making is common and affects ecological and evolutionary processes, including social aggregation, species coexistence, and cultural evolution. Despite increasing ecological knowledge on social information use, very little is known about its genetic basis and therefore its evolutionary potential. Genetic variation in a trait affecting an individual's social and nonsocial environment may have important implications for population dynamics, interspecific interactions, and, for expression of other, environmentally plastic traits. We estimated repeatability, additive genetic variance, and heritability of the use of conspecific and heterospecific social cues (abundance and breeding success) for breeding site choice in a population of wild collared flycatchers Ficedula albicollis. Repeatability was found for two social cues: previous year conspecific breeding success and previous year heterospecific abundance. Yet, additive genetic variances for these two social cues, and thus heritabilities, were low. This suggests that most of the phenotypic variation in the use of social cues and resulting conspecific and heterospecific social environment experienced by individuals in this population stems from phenotypic plasticity. Given the important role of social information use on ecological and evolutionary processes, more studies on genetic versus environmental determinism of social information use are needed.
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- Jere Tolvanen
- Department of Ecology and Genetics, University of Oulu, Oulu, 90014, Finland
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- Department of Ecology and Genetics, University of Oulu, Oulu, 90014, Finland.,Department of Zoology, Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Tartu, 51014, Estonia.,Current Address: Department of Ecology and Genetics, University of Oulu, Oulu, 90014, Finland
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- Laboratoire de Biométrie et Biologie Evolutive, CNRS UMR 5558, Université de Lyon - Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Villeurbanne, 69622, France
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- Laboratoire de Biométrie et Biologie Evolutive, CNRS UMR 5558, Université de Lyon - Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Villeurbanne, 69622, France.,Department of Ecology and Genetics/Animal Ecology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, SE-75236, Sweden
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- Department of Ecology and Genetics/Animal Ecology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, SE-75236, Sweden
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- Animal Breeding and Genomics, Wageningen University, Wageningen, 6700AH, The Netherlands
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- Department of Ecology and Genetics, University of Oulu, Oulu, 90014, Finland.,Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, SE-40530, Sweden.,Current Address: Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, SE-40530, Sweden
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- Department of Ecology and Genetics, University of Oulu, Oulu, 90014, Finland.,Current Address: Natural Resources Institute Finland, University of Oulu, Oulu, 90014, Finland
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Morinay J, Forsman JT, Germain M, Doligez B. Behavioural traits modulate the use of heterospecific social information for nest site selection: experimental evidence from a wild bird population. Proc Biol Sci 2020; 287:20200265. [PMID: 32315589 PMCID: PMC7211437 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2020.0265] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [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: 02/07/2020] [Accepted: 03/25/2020] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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The use of social information for making decisions is common but can be constrained by behavioural traits via, for example, the ability to gather information. Such constrained information use has been described in foraging habitat selection; yet it remains unexplored in the breeding habitat selection context, despite potentially strong fitness consequences. We experimentally tested whether three behavioural traits (aggressiveness, boldness and neophobia) affected the use of heterospecific social information for nest site selection in wild collared flycatchers Ficedula albicollis. Flycatchers have previously been found to copy or reject an artificial apparent preference of tits (their main competitors) for a nest site feature: they preferred nest-boxes with the same or a different feature, depending on tit early reproductive investment. Here, we confirmed this result and showed that shy individuals and less aggressive old males (i.e. 2 years old or older) copied tit apparent preference, while more aggressive old males rejected the tit preference. Aggressiveness and boldness may allow males to access more information sources or affect males' interactions with dominant tits when selecting a nest site. Our study highlights the links between variation in behaviours and social information use for breeding habitat selection and calls for further work to explore underlying mechanisms.
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- Jennifer Morinay
- Laboratoire de Biométrie et Biologie Evolutive UMR 5558, Université de Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS, Villeurbanne, France
- Department of Ecology and Evolution, Animal Ecology, Evolutionary Biology Centre, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Ecology and Genetics, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
- Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke, Oulu),Oulu, Finland
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- Laboratoire de Biométrie et Biologie Evolutive UMR 5558, Université de Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS, Villeurbanne, France
- Department of Ecology and Evolution, Animal Ecology, Evolutionary Biology Centre, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
- Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
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- Laboratoire de Biométrie et Biologie Evolutive UMR 5558, Université de Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS, Villeurbanne, France
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Tolvanen J, Morosinotto C, Forsman JT, Thomson RL. Information collected during the post-breeding season guides future breeding decisions in a migratory bird. Oecologia 2020; 192:965-977. [PMID: 32162073 PMCID: PMC7165145 DOI: 10.1007/s00442-020-04629-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [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: 11/19/2018] [Accepted: 03/03/2020] [Indexed: 11/01/2022]
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Breeding habitat choice and investment decisions are key contributors to fitness in animals. Density of individuals is a well-known cue of habitat quality used for future breeding decisions, but accuracy of density cues decreases as individuals disperse from breeding sites. Used nests remain an available information source also after breeding season, but whether such information is used for breeding decisions is less well known. We experimentally investigated whether migratory, cavity-nesting pied flycatchers (Ficedula hypoleuca) prospect potential breeding sites after breeding season and use old nests as a cue for future breeding decisions. In late summer 2013, forest sites were assigned to four treatments: (1) sites including nest boxes with old nests of heterospecifics (tits), (2) sites including suitable but empty nest boxes, (3) sites with unsuitable nest boxes, or (4) sites without any nest boxes. In the following year, we investigated pied flycatcher habitat choice and reproductive investment according to these "past" cues while also controlling for additional information sources present during settlement. Flycatchers preferred sites where tits had been perceived to breed in the previous year, but only if great tits were also currently breeding in the site and had a relatively high number of eggs. Old flycatchers avoided sites previously treated with suitable but empty cavities, whereas young flycatchers preferred sites where tits had apparently bred in the previous year. Also egg mass, but not clutch size or clutch mass, was affected by the combination of past treatment information and current tit abundance.
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- Jere Tolvanen
- Department of Ecology and Genetics, University of Oulu, 90014, Oulu, Finland. .,National Resources Institute Finland, University of Oulu, 90014, Oulu, Finland.
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- Section of Ecology, Department of Biology, University of Turku, 20014, Turku, Finland.,Bioeconomy Research Team, Novia University of Applied Sciences, Raseborgsvägen 9, 10600, Ekenäs, Finland
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- Department of Ecology and Genetics, University of Oulu, 90014, Oulu, Finland.,National Resources Institute Finland, University of Oulu, 90014, Oulu, Finland
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- Section of Ecology, Department of Biology, University of Turku, 20014, Turku, Finland.,FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, DST-NRF Centre of Excellence, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, 7701, South Africa
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Tolvanen J, Seppänen JT, Mönkkönen M, Thomson RL, Ylönen H, Forsman JT. Interspecific information on predation risk affects nest site choice in a passerine bird. BMC Evol Biol 2018; 18:181. [PMID: 30514204 PMCID: PMC6280475 DOI: 10.1186/s12862-018-1301-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [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: 02/28/2018] [Accepted: 11/20/2018] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
Abstract
Background Breeding site choice constitutes an important part of the species niche. Nest predation affects breeding site choice, and has been suggested to drive niche segregation and local coexistence of species. Interspecific social information use may, in turn, result in copying or rejection of heterospecific niche characteristics and thus affect realized niche overlap between species. We tested experimentally whether a migratory bird, the pied flycatcher Ficedula hypoleuca, collects information about nest predation risk from indirect cues of predators visiting nests of heterospecific birds. Furthermore, we investigated whether the migratory birds can associate such information with a specific nest site characteristic and generalize the information to their own nest site choice. Results Our results demonstrate that flycatchers can use the fate of heterospecific nesting attempts in their own nest site choice, but do so selectively. Young flycatcher females, when making the decision quickly, associated the fate of an artificial nest with nest-site characteristics and avoided the characteristic associated with higher nest predation risk. Conclusions Copying nest site choices of successful heterospecifics, and avoiding choices which led to failed attempts, may amplify or counter effects of nest predation on niche overlap, with important consequences for between-species niche divergence-convergence dynamics, species coexistence and predator-prey interactions. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (10.1186/s12862-018-1301-3) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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- Jere Tolvanen
- Department of Ecology and Genetics, University of Oulu, 90014, Oulu, Finland. .,Current Address: Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke), University of Oulu, Paavo Havaksen tie 3, 90014, Oulu, Finland.
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- Nature and Game Management Trust, Degerby, Finland.,Open Science Centre, University of Jyvaskyla, PO Box 35, 40014 University of Jyvaskyla, Jyväskylä, Finland
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- Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Jyvaskyla, PO Box 35, 40014 University of Jyvaskyla, Jyväskylä, Finland
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- Section of Ecology, Department of Biology, University of Turku, 20014, Turku, Finland.,Percy FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, DST-NRF Centre of Excellence, University of Cape Town, 7701, Rondebosch, South Africa
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- Department of Biological and Environmental Science, University of Jyvaskyla, Konnevesi Research Station, 44300, Konnevesi, Finland
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- Department of Ecology and Genetics, University of Oulu, 90014, Oulu, Finland.,Current Address: Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke), University of Oulu, Paavo Havaksen tie 3, 90014, Oulu, Finland
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Morinay J, Forsman JT, Kivelä SM, Gustafsson L, Doligez B. Corrigendum: Heterospecific Nest Site Copying Behavior in a Wild Bird: Assessing the Influence of Genetics and Past Experience on a Joint Breeding Phenotype. Front Ecol Evol 2018. [DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2018.00080] [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: 11/13/2022] Open
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Morinay J, Forsman JT, Kivelä SM, Gustafsson L, Doligez B. Heterospecific Nest Site Copying Behavior in a Wild Bird: Assessing the Influence of Genetics and Past Experience on a Joint Breeding Phenotype. Front Ecol Evol 2018. [DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2017.00167] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Vaugoyeau M, Adriaensen F, Artemyev A, Bańbura J, Barba E, Biard C, Blondel J, Bouslama Z, Bouvier JC, Camprodon J, Cecere F, Charmantier A, Charter M, Cichoń M, Cusimano C, Czeszczewik D, Demeyrier V, Doligez B, Doutrelant C, Dubiec A, Eens M, Eeva T, Faivre B, Ferns PN, Forsman JT, García-Del-Rey E, Goldshtein A, Goodenough AE, Gosler AG, Grégoire A, Gustafsson L, Harnist I, Hartley IR, Heeb P, Hinsley SA, Isenmann P, Jacob S, Juškaitis R, Korpimäki E, Krams I, Laaksonen T, Lambrechts MM, Leclercq B, Lehikoinen E, Loukola O, Lundberg A, Mainwaring MC, Mänd R, Massa B, Mazgajski TD, Merino S, Mitrus C, Mönkkönen M, Morin X, Nager RG, Nilsson JÅ, Nilsson SG, Norte AC, Orell M, Perret P, Perrins CM, Pimentel CS, Pinxten R, Richner H, Robles H, Rytkönen S, Senar JC, Seppänen JT, Pascoal da Silva L, Slagsvold T, Solonen T, Sorace A, Stenning MJ, Tryjanowski P, von Numers M, Walankiewicz W, Møller AP. Interspecific variation in the relationship between clutch size, laying date and intensity of urbanization in four species of hole-nesting birds. Ecol Evol 2016; 6:5907-20. [PMID: 27547364 PMCID: PMC4983601 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.2335] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [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: 03/21/2016] [Revised: 06/20/2016] [Accepted: 06/23/2016] [Indexed: 01/20/2023] Open
Abstract
The increase in size of human populations in urban and agricultural areas has resulted in considerable habitat conversion globally. Such anthropogenic areas have specific environmental characteristics, which influence the physiology, life history, and population dynamics of plants and animals. For example, the date of bud burst is advanced in urban compared to nearby natural areas. In some birds, breeding success is determined by synchrony between timing of breeding and peak food abundance. Pertinently, caterpillars are an important food source for the nestlings of many bird species, and their abundance is influenced by environmental factors such as temperature and date of bud burst. Higher temperatures and advanced date of bud burst in urban areas could advance peak caterpillar abundance and thus affect breeding phenology of birds. In order to test whether laying date advance and clutch sizes decrease with the intensity of urbanization, we analyzed the timing of breeding and clutch size in relation to intensity of urbanization as a measure of human impact in 199 nest box plots across Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East (i.e., the Western Palearctic) for four species of hole‐nesters: blue tits (Cyanistes caeruleus), great tits (Parus major), collared flycatchers (Ficedula albicollis), and pied flycatchers (Ficedula hypoleuca). Meanwhile, we estimated the intensity of urbanization as the density of buildings surrounding study plots measured on orthophotographs. For the four study species, the intensity of urbanization was not correlated with laying date. Clutch size in blue and great tits does not seem affected by the intensity of urbanization, while in collared and pied flycatchers it decreased with increasing intensity of urbanization. This is the first large‐scale study showing a species‐specific major correlation between intensity of urbanization and the ecology of breeding. The underlying mechanisms for the relationships between life history and urbanization remain to be determined. We propose that effects of food abundance or quality, temperature, noise, pollution, or disturbance by humans may on their own or in combination affect laying date and/or clutch size.
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- Marie Vaugoyeau
- Ecologie Systématique Evolution Université Paris-Sud, CNRS, Agro Paris Tech, Université Paris-Saclay Orsay France
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- Department of Biology Evolutionary Ecology Group University of Antwerp Antwerp Belgium
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- Institute of Biology Karelian Research Centre Russian Academy of Sciences Petrozavodsk Russia
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- Department of Experimental Zoology & Evolutionary Biology University of Lodź Lodź Poland
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- Terrestrial Vertebrates Research Unit "Cavanilles" Institute of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology University of Valencia Paterna Spain
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- Université Pierre et Marie Curie Sorbonne universités UPMC Univ Paris 06, UPEC, Paris 7 CNRS, INRA, IRD, Institut d'Écologie et des Sciences de l'Environnement de Paris Paris France
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- Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, Campus CNRS Montpellier France
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- Research Laboratory "Ecology of Terrestrial and Aquatic Systems" University Badji Mokhtar Annaba Algeria
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- Àrea de Biodiversitat Grup de Biologia de la Conservació Centre Tecnològic Forestal de Catalunya Solsona Spain
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- Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, Campus CNRS Montpellier France
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- University of Haifa Haifa Israel; Society for the Protection of Nature University of Lausanne Lausanne Switzerland
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- Institute of Environmental Science Jagiellonian University Krakow Poland
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- Department of Agriculture and Forest Sciences Università di Palermo Palermo Italy
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- Department of Zoology Faculty of Natural Science Siedlce University of Natural Sciences and Humanities Siedlce Poland
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- Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, Campus CNRS Montpellier France
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- Department of Biometry & Evolutionary Biology University of Lyon 1 Villeurbanne France
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- Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, Campus CNRS Montpellier France
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- Museum and Institute of Zoology Polish Academy of Sciences Warsaw Poland
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- Department of Biology Behavioural Ecology and Ecophysiology Group University of Antwerp Antwerp Belgium
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- Section of Ecology Department of Biology University of Turku Turku Finland
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- BioGéoSciences Université de Bourgogne Dijon France
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- Departamento de Ecología Facultad de Biología Universidad de La Laguna, San Cristóbal de La Laguna Tenerife Canary Islands Spain
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- Department of Natural and Social Sciences University of Gloucestershire Gloucestershire UK
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- Department of Zoology Edward Grey Institute of Field Ornithology & Institute of Human Sciences Oxford UK
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- Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, Campus CNRS Montpellier France
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- Department of Animal Ecology Evolutionary Biology Centre Uppsala University Uppsala Sweden
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- Museum and Institute of Zoology Polish Academy of Sciences Warsaw Poland
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- Lancaster Environment Centre Lancaster University Lancaster UK
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- Laboratoire Évolution & Diversité Biologique UPS Toulouse III Toulouse France
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- Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, Campus CNRS Montpellier France
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- Laboratoire Évolution & Diversité Biologique UPS Toulouse III Toulouse France
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- Institute of Ecology of Nature Research Centre Akademijos 2 Vilnius Lithuania
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- Section of Ecology Department of Biology University of Turku Turku Finland
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- Institute of Ecology & Earth Sciences University of Tartu Tartu Estonia
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- Section of Ecology Department of Biology University of Turku Turku Finland
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- Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, Campus CNRS Montpellier France
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- Section of Ecology Department of Biology University of Turku Turku Finland
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- Department of Ecology University of Oulu Oulu Finland
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- Department of Animal Ecology Evolutionary Biology Centre Uppsala University Uppsala Sweden
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- Institute of Ecology & Earth Sciences University of Tartu Tartu Estonia
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- Department of Agriculture and Forest Sciences Università di Palermo Palermo Italy
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- Museum and Institute of Zoology Polish Academy of Sciences Warsaw Poland
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- Departamento de Ecología Evolutiva Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas Madrid Spain
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- Department of Zoology Rzeszów University Rzeszów Poland
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- Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, Campus CNRS Montpellier France; Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences University of Jyväskylä Jyväskylä Finland
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- Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, Campus CNRS Montpellier France
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- Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health & Comparative Medicine University of Glasgow Glasgow UK
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- Department of Life SciencesInstitute of Marine ResearchUniversity of CoimbraCoimbraPortugal; Department of Life SciencesMARE - Marine and Environmental Sciences CentreUniversity of CoimbraCoimbraPortugal
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- Department of Ecology University of Oulu Oulu Finland
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- Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, Campus CNRS Montpellier France
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- Department of Zoology Edward Grey Institute of Field Ornithology & Institute of Human Sciences Oxford UK
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- Centro de Estudos Florestais Instituto Superior de Agronomia University of Lisbon Lisbon Portugal
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- Department of Biology Behavioural Ecology and Ecophysiology Group University of Antwerp Antwerp Belgium; Didactica Research Unit Faculty of Social Sciences University of Antwerp Antwerp Belgium
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- Institute of Ecology & Evolution (IEE) University of Bern Bern Switzerland
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- Department of Biology Evolutionary Ecology Group University of Antwerp Antwerp Belgium; Evolutionary Biology Group (GIBE) Falculty of Sciences University of A Coruña A Coruña Spain
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- Unidad Asociada CSIC de Ecología Evolutiva y de la Conducta Nat-Museu de Ciències Naturals de Barcelona Barcelona Spain
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- Department of Life Sciences Institute of Marine Research University of Coimbra Coimbra Portugal
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- Department of Biosciences University of Oslo Oslo Norway
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- Institute of Zoology Poznan University of Life Sciences Poznań Poland
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- Department of Zoology Faculty of Natural Science Siedlce University of Natural Sciences and Humanities Siedlce Poland
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- Ecologie Systématique Evolution Université Paris-Sud, CNRS, Agro Paris Tech, Université Paris-Saclay Orsay France
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Laaksonen T, Sirkiä PM, Calhim S, Brommer JE, Leskinen PK, Primmer CR, Adamík P, Artemyev AV, Belskii E, Both C, Bureš S, Burgess MD, Doligez B, Forsman JT, Grinkov V, Hoffmann U, Ivankina E, Král M, Krams I, Lampe HM, Moreno J, Mägi M, Nord A, Potti J, Ravussin PA, Sokolov L. Sympatric divergence and clinal variation in multiple coloration traits of Ficedula flycatchers. J Evol Biol 2015; 28:779-90. [PMID: 25683091 DOI: 10.1111/jeb.12604] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [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: 10/20/2014] [Revised: 01/23/2015] [Accepted: 02/06/2015] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
Abstract
Geographic variation in phenotypes plays a key role in fundamental evolutionary processes such as local adaptation, population differentiation and speciation, but the selective forces behind it are rarely known. We found support for the hypothesis that geographic variation in plumage traits of the pied flycatcher Ficedula hypoleuca is explained by character displacement with the collared flycatcher Ficedula albicollis in the contact zone. The plumage traits of the pied flycatcher differed strongly from the more conspicuous collared flycatcher in a sympatric area but increased in conspicuousness with increasing distance to there. Phenotypic differentiation (PST ) was higher than that in neutral genetic markers (FST ), and the effect of geographic distance remained when statistically controlling for neutral genetic differentiation. This suggests that a cline created by character displacement and gene flow explains phenotypic variation across the distribution of this species. The different plumage traits of the pied flycatcher are strongly to moderately correlated, indicating that they evolve non-independently from each other. The flycatchers provide an example of plumage patterns diverging in two species that differ in several aspects of appearance. The divergence in sympatry and convergence in allopatry in these birds provide a possibility to study the evolutionary mechanisms behind the highly divergent avian plumage patterns.
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- T Laaksonen
- Department of Biology, University of Turku, Turku, Finland; Finnish Museum of Natural History, Zoology Unit, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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Sirkiä PM, Adamík P, Artemyev AV, Belskii E, Both C, Bureš S, Burgess M, Bushuev AV, Forsman JT, Grinkov V, Hoffmann D, Järvinen A, Král M, Krams I, Lampe HM, Moreno J, Mägi M, Nord A, Potti J, Ravussin PA, Sokolov L, Laaksonen T. Fecundity selection does not vary along a large geographical cline of trait means in a passerine bird. Biol J Linn Soc Lond 2015. [DOI: 10.1111/bij.12469] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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- Päivi M. Sirkiä
- Department of Biology; Section of Ecology; University of Turku; Turku Finland
- Finnish Museum of Natural History; Zoology Unit; University of Helsinki; Helsinki Finland
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- Department of Zoology and Laboratory of Ornithology; Palacky University; Olomouc Czech Republic
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- Institute of Biology, Karelian Research Centre; Russian Academy of Science; Petrozavodsk Russia
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- Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology; Ural Branch; Russian Academy of Science; Ekaterinburg Russia
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- Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Studies; University of Groningen; Haren The Netherlands
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- Department of Zoology and Laboratory of Ornithology; Palacky University; Olomouc Czech Republic
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- Centre for Research in Animal Behaviour; School of Life & Environmental Sciences; University of Exeter; Exeter UK
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- Department of Vertebrate Zoology; Faculty of Biology; Moscow State University; Moscow Russia
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- Department of Vertebrate Zoology; Faculty of Biology; Moscow State University; Moscow Russia
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- Kilpisjärvi Biological Station; University of Helsinki; Helsinki Finland
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- Institute of Systematic Biology; University of Daugavpils; Daugavpils Latvia
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- Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis; University of Oslo; Oslo Norway
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- Departamento de Ecología Evolutiva; Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales-CSIC; Madrid Spain
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- Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences; Department of Zoology; University of Tartu; Tartu Estonia
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- Department of Biology; Section of Evolutionary Ecology; Lund University; Lund Sweden
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- Department of Evolutionary Ecology; Estación Biológica de Doñana-CSIC; Sevilla Spain
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- Biological Station of the Zoological Institute; Russian Academy of Science; Rybachy Russia
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- Department of Biology; Section of Ecology; University of Turku; Turku Finland
- Finnish Museum of Natural History; Zoology Unit; University of Helsinki; Helsinki Finland
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Kivelä SM, Seppänen JT, Ovaskainen O, Doligez B, Gustafsson L, Mönkkönen M, Forsman JT. The past and the present in decision-making: the use of conspecific and heterospecific cues in nest site selection. Ecology 2014. [DOI: 10.1890/13-2103.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Møller AP, Adriaensen F, Artemyev A, Bańbura J, Barba E, Biard C, Blondel J, Bouslama Z, Bouvier JC, Camprodon J, Cecere F, Charmantier A, Charter M, Cichoń M, Cusimano C, Czeszczewik D, Demeyrier V, Doligez B, Doutrelant C, Dubiec A, Eens M, Eeva T, Faivre B, Ferns PN, Forsman JT, García-Del-Rey E, Goldshtein A, Goodenough AE, Gosler AG, Góźdź I, Grégoire A, Gustafsson L, Hartley IR, Heeb P, Hinsley SA, Isenmann P, Jacob S, Järvinen A, Juškaitis R, Korpimäki E, Krams I, Laaksonen T, Leclercq B, Lehikoinen E, Loukola O, Lundberg A, Mainwaring MC, Mänd R, Massa B, Mazgajski TD, Merino S, Mitrus C, Mönkkönen M, Morales-Fernaz J, Morin X, Nager RG, Nilsson JÅ, Nilsson SG, Norte AC, Orell M, Perret P, Pimentel CS, Pinxten R, Priedniece I, Quidoz MC, Remeš V, Richner H, Robles H, Rytkönen S, Senar JC, Seppänen JT, da Silva LP, Slagsvold T, Solonen T, Sorace A, Stenning MJ, Török J, Tryjanowski P, van Noordwijk AJ, von Numers M, Walankiewicz W, Lambrechts MM. Variation in clutch size in relation to nest size in birds. Ecol Evol 2014; 4:3583-95. [PMID: 25478150 PMCID: PMC4224533 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.1189] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [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: 05/13/2014] [Revised: 07/07/2014] [Accepted: 07/15/2014] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
Abstract
Nests are structures built to support and protect eggs and/or offspring from predators, parasites, and adverse weather conditions. Nests are mainly constructed prior to egg laying, meaning that parent birds must make decisions about nest site choice and nest building behavior before the start of egg-laying. Parent birds should be selected to choose nest sites and to build optimally sized nests, yet our current understanding of clutch size-nest size relationships is limited to small-scale studies performed over short time periods. Here, we quantified the relationship between clutch size and nest size, using an exhaustive database of 116 slope estimates based on 17,472 nests of 21 species of hole and non-hole-nesting birds. There was a significant, positive relationship between clutch size and the base area of the nest box or the nest, and this relationship did not differ significantly between open nesting and hole-nesting species. The slope of the relationship showed significant intraspecific and interspecific heterogeneity among four species of secondary hole-nesting species, but also among all 116 slope estimates. The estimated relationship between clutch size and nest box base area in study sites with more than a single size of nest box was not significantly different from the relationship using studies with only a single size of nest box. The slope of the relationship between clutch size and nest base area in different species of birds was significantly negatively related to minimum base area, and less so to maximum base area in a given study. These findings are consistent with the hypothesis that bird species have a general reaction norm reflecting the relationship between nest size and clutch size. Further, they suggest that scientists may influence the clutch size decisions of hole-nesting birds through the provisioning of nest boxes of varying sizes.
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- Anders P Møller
- Laboratoire Ecologie, Systematique et Evolution, UMR 8079 CNRS-Université Paris-Sud XI-AgroParisTech Batiment 362 Université Paris-Sud XI, Orsay Cedex, F-91405, France
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- Evolutionary Ecology Group, Department of Biology, University of Antwerp Campus CGB, Antwerp, B-2020, Belgium
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- Russian Academy of Sciences, Karelian Research Centre, Instition of Biology Petrozavodsk, 185610, Russia
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- Department of Experimental Zoology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Łodź Banacha 12/16, Łodź, 90-237, Poland
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- Terrestrial Vertebrates Research Unit "Cavanilles", Institute of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology, University of Valencia C/Catedrático José Beltran 2, Paterna, E-46980, Spain
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- Laboratoire Ecologie-Evolution, UMR 7625, Equipe Ecophysiologie Evolutive - Evolutionary Ecophysiology Research Group, Université Pierre et Marie Curie - UPMC 7 quai Saint Bernard, case 237, Paris Cedex 05, F-75252, France
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- Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, CEFE UMR 5175 Campus CNRS, 1919 route de Mende, Montpellier Cedex 5, F-34293, France
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- Research Laboratory "Ecology of Terrestrial and Aquatic Systems", University Badji Mokhtar Annaba, Algeria
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- INRA, UR 1115, Plantes et Systèmes de culture Horticoles Avignon, F-84000, France
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- Àrea de Biodiversitat, Grup de Biologia de la Conservació, Centre Tecnològic Forestal de Catalunya Carretera de St. Llorenç de Morunys, km. 2, Solsona, E-25280, Spain
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- Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, CEFE UMR 5175 Campus CNRS, 1919 route de Mende, Montpellier Cedex 5 F-34293, France
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- University of Haifa Haifa, Israel ; Society for the Protection of Nature, University of Lausanne Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Institution of Environment Science, Jagiellonian University Krakow, Poland
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- Stazione Inanellamento c/o Dipartimento SEN-FIMIZO, Università di Palermo Palermo, Italy
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- Department of Zoology, Siedlce University of Natural Sciences and Humanities Prusa 12, Siedlce, PL-08-110, Poland
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- Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, CEFE UMR 5175 Campus CNRS, 1919 route de Mende, Montpellier Cedex 5 F-34293, France
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- Univ Lyon 1, Department of Biometry & Evolutionary Biology, CNRS UMR 5558 Villeurbanne, F-69622, France
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- Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, CEFE UMR 5175 Campus CNRS, 1919 route de Mende, Montpellier Cedex 5 F-34293, France
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- Museum and Institute of Zoology, Polish Academy of Sciences Wilcza 64, Warsaw, PL-00-679, Poland
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- Campus Drie Eiken, Department of Biology (Ethology) Building C, Antwerp (Wilrijk), B-2610, Belgium
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- Section of Ecology, Department of Biology, University of Turku Turku, FI-20014, Finland
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- Université de Bourgogne, UMR CNRS 5561, BioGéoSciences 6 Boulevard Gabriel, Dijon, F-21000, France
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- School of Bioscience, Cardiff University Cardiff, CF10 3AX, UK
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- Department of Biology, University of Oulu Oulu, FIN-90014, Finland
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- Departamento de Ecología, Facultad de Biología, Universidad de La Laguna La Laguna, E-38260, Spain
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- Department of Natural and Social Sciences, University of Gloucestershire Gloucestershire, GL50 4AZ, U.K
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- Department of Zoology, Edward Grey Institute of Field Ornithology & Institute of Human Sciences South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PS, U.K
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- Museum and Institute of Zoology, Polish Academy of Sciences Wilcza 64, Warszawa, PL-00-679, Poland
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- Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, CEFE UMR 5175 Campus CNRS, et Université de Montpellier II, 1919 route de Mende, Montpellier Cedex 5, F-34293, France
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- Department of Animal Ecology, Evolutionary Biology Centre, Uppsala University Uppsala, SE-75236, Sweden
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- Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University Lancaster, LA1 4YQ, U.K
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- Laboratoire Évolution & Diversité Biologique, UPS Toulouse III, Bât 4R1, salle 122 118 route de Narbonne, Toulouse, F-31062, France
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- CEH Wallingford Maclean Building, Crowmarsh Gifford, Oxfordshire, OX10 8BB, U.K
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- Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, CEFE UMR 5175 Campus CNRS, 1919 route de Mende, Montpellier Cedex 5 F-34293, France
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- Laboratoire Évolution & Diversité Biologique, UPS Toulouse III, Bât 4R1, salle 122 118 route de Narbonne, Toulouse F-31062, France
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- University of Helsinki Kilpisjarvi Biological Station, P.O.Box 17, Helsinki, FIN-00014, Finland
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- Institute of Ecology of Nature Research Centre Akademijos 2, Vilnius, LT-08412, Lithuania
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- Section of Ecology, Department of Biology, University of Turku Turku FI-20014, Finland
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- Institute of Ecology & Earth Sciences, University Tartu Tartu, EE-51014, Estonia
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- Section of Ecology, Department of Biology, University of Turku Turku FI-20014, Finland
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- Crx. St. Pierre 6 rue Morcueil, Fleurey Sur Ouche, F-21410, France
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- Section of Ecology, Department of Biology, University of Turku Turku FI-20014, Finland
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- Department of Biology, University of Oulu Oulu, FI-90014, Finland
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- Department of Ecology & Evolution, Uppsala University Uppsala, S-75236, Sweden
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- Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University Lancaster LA1 4YQ, U.K
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- Department of Zoology, Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu 46 Vanemuise Str., Tartu, EE-51014, Estonia
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- Stazione Inanellamento c/o Dipartimento SEN-FIMIZO, Università di Palermo Palermo, Italy
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- Museum and Institute of Zoology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Wilcza 64 Warszawa PL-00-679, Poland
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- Departamento de Ecología Evolutiva Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, CSIC C/José Gutiérrez Abascal 2, Madrid, E-28002, Spain
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- Department of Zoology, Rzeszów University Zelwerowicza 4, Rzeszów, PL-35-601, Poland
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- Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Jyväskylä POB 35, Jyväskylä, FIN-40014, Finland ; Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionelle & Evolutive, CNRS 1919 Route de Mende, Montpellier, France
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- Ecología Evolutiva, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (CSIC) José Gutiérrez Abascal 2, Madrid, E-28006, Spain
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- Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, Campus CNRS 1919 route de Mende, Montpellier Cedex 5, F-34293, France
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- Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health & Comparative Medicine, University of Glasgow Graham Kerr Building, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, U.K
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- Ecology Building, Animal Ecology, Lund University Lund, SE-223 62, Sweden
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- Department of Biology, Biodiversity, Lund University Ecology Building, Lund, SE-223 62, Sweden
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- Department of Life Sciences, Institute of Marine Research, University of Coimbra Apartado 3046, Coimbra, PT-3001-401, Portugal
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- Department of Biology, University of Oulu P.O. Box 3000, Oulu, FIN-90014, Finland
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- Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, CEFE UMR 5175 Campus CNRS, 1919 route de Mende, Montpellier Cedex 5 F-34293, France
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- Centro de Estudos Florestais, Instituto Superior de Agronomia, University of Lisbon Lisbon, 1349-017, Portugal
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- Campus Drie Eiken, Department of Biology (Ethology), Building C Antwerp (Wilrijk) B-2610, Belgium
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- Latvian Fund for Nature Dzirnavu Street 73-2, Riga, LV-1011, Latvia
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- Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, CEFE UMR 5175 Campus CNRS, 1919 route de Mende, Montpellier Cedex 5 F-34293, France
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- Laboratory of Ornithology, Department of Zoology, Palacky University Olomouc, CZ-77146, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Ecology & Evolution (IEE), University of Bern Bern, CH-3012, Switzerland
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- Falculty of Sciences, Evolutionary Ecology Group (GIBE), University of A Coruña Campus Zapateira, A Coruña, E-15008, Spain ; Evolutionary Ecology Group (EVECO), Department of Biology, University of Antwerp Middelheimcampus, Groenenborgerlaan 171, Antwerp, B-2020, Belgium
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- Department of Biology, University of Oulu P. O. Box 3000, Oulu, FIN-90014, Finland
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- Unidad Asociada CSIC de Ecología Evolutiva y de la Conducta, Nat-Museu de Ciències Naturals de Barcelona Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Biological and Environmental Science, University of Jyväskylä Jyväskylä, Finland
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- Department Life Science, IMAR CMA, University Coimbra Coimbra, PT-3004517, Portugal
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- Luontotutkimus Solonen Oy Neitsytsaarentie 7b B 147, Helsinki, FIN-00960, Finland
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- School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex Brighton, Sussex, BN1 9QG, U.K
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- Behavioral Ecology Group, Department of Systematic Zoology & Ecology, Eötvös Lorand University Budapest, H-1117, Hungary
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- Institute of Zoology, Poznan University of Life Sciences Wojska Polskiego 71 C, Poznań, PL-60-625, Poland
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- Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW) Doevendaalsesteg, 10, Wageningen, NL-6708 BP, the Netherlands
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- Environmental and Marine Biology, Åbo Akademi University Artillerigatan 6, Biocity, Åbo, FI-20520, Finland
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- Department of Zoology, Siedlce University of Natural Sciences and Humanities, Prusa 12 Siedlce PL-08-110, Poland
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- Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, CEFE UMR 5175 Campus CNRS, 1919 route de Mende, Montpellier Cedex 5 F-34293, France
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Forsman JT, Kivelä SM, Jaakkonen T, Seppänen JT, Gustafsson L, Doligez B. Avoiding perceived past resource use of potential competitors affects niche dynamics in a bird community. BMC Evol Biol 2014; 14:175. [PMID: 25123229 PMCID: PMC4236583 DOI: 10.1186/s12862-014-0175-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2014] [Accepted: 07/24/2014] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND Social information use is usually considered to lead to ecological convergence among involved con- or heterospecific individuals. However, recent results demonstrate that observers can also actively avoid behaving as those individuals being observed, leading to ecological divergence. This phenomenon has been little explored so far, yet it can have significant impact on resource use, realized niches and species co-existence. In particular, the time-scale and the ecological context over which such shifts can occur are unknown. We examined with a long-term (four years) field experiment whether experimentally manipulated, species-specific, nest-site feature preferences (symbols on nest boxes) are transmitted across breeding seasons and affect future nest-site preferences in a guild of three cavity-nesting birds. RESULTS Of the examined species, resident great tits (Parus major) preferred the symbol that had been associated with unoccupied nest boxes in the previous year, i.e., their preference shifted towards niche space previously unused by putative competitors and conspecifics. CONCLUSIONS Our results show that animals can remember the earlier resource use of conspecifics and other guild members and adjust own decisions accordingly one year after. Our experiment cannot reveal the ultimate mechanism(s) behind the observed behaviour but avoiding costs of intra- or interspecific competition or ectoparasite load in old nests are plausible reasons. Our findings imply that interspecific social information use can affect resource sharing and realized niches in ecological time-scale through active avoidance of observed decisions and behavior of potentially competing species.
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- Jukka T Forsman
- Department of Biology, University of Oulu, Oulu, FI-90014, Finland.
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Møller AP, Adriaensen F, Artemyev A, Bańbura J, Barba E, Biard C, Blondel J, Bouslama Z, Bouvier JC, Camprodon J, Cecere F, Chaine A, Charmantier A, Charter M, Cichoń M, Cusimano C, Czeszczewik D, Doligez B, Doutrelant C, Dubiec A, Eens M, Eeva T, Faivre B, Ferns PN, Forsman JT, García-del-Rey E, Goldshtein A, Goodenough AE, Gosler AG, Góźdź I, Grégoire A, Gustafsson L, Hartley IR, Heeb P, Hinsley SA, Isenmann P, Jacob S, Järvinen A, Juškaitis R, Kania W, Korpimäki E, Krams I, Laaksonen T, Leclercq B, Lehikoinen E, Loukola O, Lundberg A, Mainwaring MC, Mänd R, Massa B, Mazgajski TD, Merino S, Mitrus C, Mönkkönen M, Morales-Fernaz J, Moreno J, Morin X, Nager RG, Nilsson JÅ, Nilsson SG, Norte AC, Orell M, Perret P, Perrins CM, Pimentel CS, Pinxten R, Priedniece I, Quidoz MC, Remeš V, Richner H, Robles H, Russell A, Rytkönen S, Senar JC, Seppänen JT, Pascoal da Silva L, Slagsvold T, Solonen T, Sorace A, Stenning MJ, Török J, Tryjanowski P, van Noordwijk AJ, von Numers M, Walankiewicz W, Lambrechts MM. Clutch-size variation in Western Palaearctic secondary hole-nesting passerine birds in relation to nest box design. Methods Ecol Evol 2014. [DOI: 10.1111/2041-210x.12160] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Anders Pape Møller
- Laboratoire Ecologie, Systematique et Evolution; UMR8079 CNRS-Université Paris-Sud XI-AgroParisTech; Université Paris-Sud XI; Batiment 362 F-91405 Orsay Cedex France
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- Department of Biology, Evolutionary Ecology Group; University of Antwerp; Campus CGB B-2020 Antwerp Belgium
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- Karelian Research Centre; Russian Academy of Sciences; Institute of Biology; Petrozavodsk 185610 Russia
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- Department of Experimental Zoology & Evolutionary Biology; University of Lodź; Banacha 12/16 90-237 Lodź Poland
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- Terrestrial Vertebrates Research Unit “Cavanilles”; Institute of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology; University of Valencia; C/Catedrático José Beltran 2 Paterna E-46980 Spain
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- Laboratoire Ecologie-Evolution; UMR 7625; Equipe Ecophysiologie Evolutive - Evolutionary Ecophysiology Research Group; Université Pierre et Marie Curie - UPMC; 7 Quai Saint Bernard, Case 237 F-75252 Paris Cedex 05 France
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- Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive; CEFEUMR5175; Campus CNRS, 1919 route deMende F-34293 Montpellier Cedex 5 France
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- Research Laboratory “Ecology of Terrestrial and Aquatic Systems”; University Badji Mokhtar; Annaba Algeria
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- INRA; UR 1115, Plantes et Systèmes de culture Horticoles; F-84000 Avignon France
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- Àrea de Biodiversitat, Grup de Biologia de la Conservació; Centre Tecnològic Forestal de Catalunya; Carretera de St. Llorenç de Morunys, km. 2 E-25280 Solsona Spain
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- Stn. Ecol. Expt.; CNRS; Moulis USR2936; F-09200 St. Girons France
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- Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive; CEFEUMR5175; Campus CNRS, 1919 route deMende F-34293 Montpellier Cedex 5 France
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- University of Haifa; Haifa Israel
- Society for the Protection of Nature; University of Lausanne; Lausanne Switzerland
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- Institute of Environmental Science; Jagiellonian University; Krakow Poland
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- Stazione Inanellamento c/o Dipartimento SEN-FIMIZO; Università di Palermo; Palermo Italy
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- Department of Zoology; Siedlce University of Natural Sciences and Humanities; Prusa 12 PL-08-110 Siedlce Poland
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- Department of Biometry & Evolutionary Biology; CNRS UMR5558; University of Lyon 1; F-69622 Villeurbanne France
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- Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive; CEFEUMR5175; Campus CNRS, 1919 route deMende F-34293 Montpellier Cedex 5 France
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- Museum and Institute of Zoology; Polish Academy of Sciences; Wilcza 64 PL-00-679 Warsaw Poland
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- Department of Biology (Ethology); Campus Drie Eiken, Building C B-2610 Antwerp (Wilrijk) Belgium
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- Section of Ecology; Department of Biology; University of Turku; FI-20014 Turku Finland
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- BioGéoSciences; UMR CNRS 5561; Université de Bourgogne; 6 Boulevard Gabriel F-21000 Dijon France
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- School of Bioscience; Cardiff University; S Glam Wales Cardiff CF10 3AX UK
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- Department of Biology; University of Oulu; FIN-90014 Oulu Finland
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- Departamento de Ecología; Facultad de Biología; Universidad de La Laguna; La Laguna Tenerife Canary Islands E-38260 Spain
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- Department of Natural and Social Sciences; University of Gloucestershire; Glos GL50 4AZ UK
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- Department of Zoology; Edward Grey Institute of Field Ornithology & Institute of Human Sciences; South Parks Road Oxford OX1 3PS UK
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- Museum and Institute of Zoology; Polish Academy of Sciences; Wilcza 64 PL-00-679 Warsaw Poland
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- Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive; CEFEUMR5175; Campus CNRS, 1919 route deMende F-34293 Montpellier Cedex 5 France
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- Department of Animal Ecology; Evolutionary Biology Centre; Uppsala University; SE-75236 Uppsala Sweden
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- Lancaster Environment Centre; Lancaster University; Lancaster LA1 4YQ UK
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- Laboratoire Évolution & Diversité Biologique; UPS Toulouse III; Bât 4R1, salle 122, 118 route de Narbonne F-31062 Toulouse France
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- Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive; CEFEUMR5175; Campus CNRS, 1919 route deMende F-34293 Montpellier Cedex 5 France
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- Laboratoire Évolution & Diversité Biologique; UPS Toulouse III; Bât 4R1, salle 122, 118 route de Narbonne F-31062 Toulouse France
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- Kilpisjarvi Biological Station; University of Helsinki; P.O.Box 17 Helsinki FIN-00014 Finland
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- Institute of Ecology of Nature Research Centre; Akademijos 2 LT-08412 Vilnius Lithuania
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- Ornithological Station; Museum and Institute of Zoology; Polish Academy of Sciences; PL-80-680 Gdansk Poland
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- Section of Ecology; Department of Biology; University of Turku; FI-20014 Turku Finland
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- Institute of Ecology & Earth Sciences; University of Tartu; EE-51014 Tartu Estonia
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- Section of Ecology; Department of Biology; University of Turku; FI-20014 Turku Finland
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- Section of Ecology; Department of Biology; University of Turku; FI-20014 Turku Finland
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- Department of Biology; University of Oulu; FIN-90014 Oulu Finland
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- Department of Animal Ecology; Evolutionary Biology Centre; Uppsala University; SE-75236 Uppsala Sweden
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- Lancaster Environment Centre; Lancaster University; Lancaster LA1 4YQ UK
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- Institute of Ecology & Earth Sciences; University of Tartu; EE-51014 Tartu Estonia
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- Stazione Inanellamento c/o Dipartimento SEN-FIMIZO; Università di Palermo; Palermo Italy
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- Museum and Institute of Zoology; Polish Academy of Sciences; Wilcza 64 PL-00-679 Warsaw Poland
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- Departamento de Ecología Evolutiva Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales; Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas; Rodrígues, CSIC; C/Josí Gutiírrez Abascal 2 E-28002 Madrid Spain
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- Department of Zoology; Rzeszów University; Zelwerowicza 4 PL-35-601 Rzeszów Poland
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- Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive; CEFEUMR5175; Campus CNRS, 1919 route deMende F-34293 Montpellier Cedex 5 France
- Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences; University of Jyväskylä; POB 35 FIN-40014 Jyväskylä Finland
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- Departamento de Ecología Evolutiva Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales; Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas; Rodrígues, CSIC; C/Josí Gutiírrez Abascal 2 E-28002 Madrid Spain
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- Departamento de Ecología Evolutiva Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales; Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas; Rodrígues, CSIC; C/Josí Gutiírrez Abascal 2 E-28002 Madrid Spain
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- Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive; CEFEUMR5175; Campus CNRS, 1919 route deMende F-34293 Montpellier Cedex 5 France
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- Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health & Comparative Medicine; University of Glasgow; Graham Kerr Building Glasgow G12 8QQ UK
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- Animal Ecology; Lund University; Ecology Building SE-223 62 Lund Sweden
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- Animal Ecology; Lund University; Ecology Building SE-223 62 Lund Sweden
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- Department of Life Sciences; Institute of Marine Research; University of Coimbra; Apartado 3046 PT-3001-401 Coimbra Portugal
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- Department of Biology; University of Oulu; FIN-90014 Oulu Finland
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- Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive; CEFEUMR5175; Campus CNRS, 1919 route deMende F-34293 Montpellier Cedex 5 France
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- Department of Zoology; Edward Grey Institute of Field Ornithology & Institute of Human Sciences; South Parks Road Oxford OX1 3PS UK
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- Centro de Estudos Florestais; Instituto Superior de Agronomia; University of Lisbon; PT-1349-017 Lisbon Portugal
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- Department of Biology (Ethology); Campus Drie Eiken, Building C B-2610 Antwerp (Wilrijk) Belgium
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- Latvian Fund for Nature; Dzirnavu Street 73-2 Riga LV-1011 Latvia
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- Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive; CEFEUMR5175; Campus CNRS, 1919 route deMende F-34293 Montpellier Cedex 5 France
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- Laboratory of Ornithology; Department of Zoology; Palacky University; CZ-77146 Olomouc Czech Republic
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- Institute of Ecology & Evolution (IEE); University of Bern; CH-3012 Bern Switzerland
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- Department of Biology, Evolutionary Ecology Group; University of Antwerp; Campus CGB B-2020 Antwerp Belgium
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- Stn. Ecol. Expt.; CNRS; Moulis USR2936; F-09200 St. Girons France
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- Department of Biology; University of Oulu; FIN-90014 Oulu Finland
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- Unidad Asociada CSIC de Ecología Evolutiva y de la Conducta; Nat-Museu de Ciències Naturals de Barcelona; Barcelona Spain
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- Department of Life Sciences; Institute of Marine Research; University of Coimbra; Apartado 3046 PT-3001-401 Coimbra Portugal
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- Department of Biosciences; University of Oslo; Oslo Norway
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- Luontotutkimus Solonen Oy; Neitsytsaarentie 7b B 147 FIN-00960 Helsinki Finland
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- School of Life Sciences; University of Sussex; Falmer Brighton Sussex BN1 9QG UK
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- Behavioral Ecology Group; Department of Systematic Zoology & Ecology; Eotvos Lorand University; H-1117 Budapest Hungary
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- Institute of Zoology; Poznan University of Life Sciences; Wojska Polskiego 71 C PL-60-625 Poznań Poland
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- Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW); Doevendaalsesteg, 10 NL-6708 BP Wageningen the Netherlands
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- Environmental and Marine Biology; Åbo Akademi University; Artillerigatan 6 Biocity FI-20520 Åbo Finland
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- Department of Zoology; Siedlce University of Natural Sciences and Humanities; Prusa 12 PL-08-110 Siedlce Poland
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- Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive; CEFEUMR5175; Campus CNRS, 1919 route deMende F-34293 Montpellier Cedex 5 France
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Loukola OJ, Laaksonen T, Seppänen JT, Forsman JT. Active hiding of social information from information-parasites. BMC Evol Biol 2014; 14:32. [PMID: 24580842 PMCID: PMC3939400 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-14-32] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/21/2014] [Accepted: 02/07/2014] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Background Coevolution between pairs of different kind of entities, such as providers and users of information, involves reciprocal selection pressures between them as a consequence of their ecological interaction. Pied flycatchers (Ficedula hypoleuca) have been shown to derive fitness benefits (larger clutches) when nesting in proximity to great tits (Parus major), presumably because they this way discover and obtain information about nesting sites. Tits suffer from the resulting association (smaller clutches). An arms race between the tits (information host) and the flycatchers (information parasite) could thus result. Great tits often cover eggs with nesting material before, but not during incubation. We hypothesized that one function of egg-covering could be a counter-adaptation to reduce information parasitism by pied flycatchers. We predicted that tits should bring more new hair to cover their exposed eggs when a pied flycatcher is present near to tit nest than when a neutral (non-competing) species is present. We conducted decoy and playback experiment in Oulu and Turku, Finland. First, we removed and collected all the hair covering the tit eggs. Then, we measured how the perceived presence of flycatcher or waxwing (Bombycilla garrulus) affects tits' egg-covering by collecting and weighing the hair brought on the eggs and photographing the nest 24 h after the playback. Results Tits brought more hair into the nest and covered the eggs more carefully after flycatcher treatment, compared to waxwing treatment. We also found that the tits in Oulu (over 600 km to north from Turku) had more hair on the top of their eggs in general. Conclusions Together, these results suggest that the counter-adaptation function of egg-covering against information parasites may be an extension of original function to protect eggs from low temperatures.
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- Olli J Loukola
- Department of Biology, University of Oulu, POB 3000, Oulu FI-90014, Finland.
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Raitanen J, Forsman JT, Kivelä SM, Mäenpää MI, Välimäki P. Attraction to conspecific eggs may guide oviposition site selection in a solitary insect. Behav Ecol 2013. [DOI: 10.1093/beheco/art092] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Loukola OJ, Seppänen JT, Krams I, Torvinen SS, Forsman JT. Observed fitness may affect niche overlap in competing species via selective social information use. Am Nat 2013; 182:474-83. [PMID: 24021400 DOI: 10.1086/671815] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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Social information transmission is important because it enables horizontal spread of behaviors, not only between conspecifics but also between individuals of different species. Because interspecific social information use is expected to take place among species with similar resource needs, it may have major consequences for the emergence of local adaptations, resource sharing, and community organization. Social information use is expected to be selective, but the conditions promoting it in an interspecific context are not well known. Here, we experimentally test whether pied flycatchers (Ficedula hypoleuca) use the clutch size of great tits (Parus major) in determining the quality of the observed individual and use it as a basis of decision making. We show that pied flycatchers copied or rejected a novel nest site feature preference of great tits experimentally manipulated to exhibit high or low fitness (clutch size), respectively. Our results demonstrate that the social transmission of behaviors across species can be highly selective in response to observed fitness, plausibly making the phenomenon adaptive. In contrast with the current theory of species coexistence, overlap between realized niches of species could dynamically increase or decrease depending on the observed success of surrounding individuals.
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- Olli J Loukola
- Department of Biology, University of Oulu, P.O. Box 3000, 90014 Oulu, Finland
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Niemelä PT, Vainikka A, Forsman JT, Loukola OJ, Kortet R. How does variation in the environment and individual cognition explain the existence of consistent behavioral differences? Ecol Evol 2012; 3:457-64. [PMID: 23467316 PMCID: PMC3586654 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.451] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [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: 10/24/2012] [Revised: 11/09/2012] [Accepted: 11/15/2012] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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According to recent studies on animal personalities, the level of behavioral plasticity, which can be viewed as the slope of the behavioral reaction norm, varies among individuals, populations, and species. Still, it is conceptually unclear how the interaction between environmental variation and variation in animal cognition affect the evolution of behavioral plasticity and expression of animal personalities. Here, we (1) use literature to review how environmental variation and individual variation in cognition explain population and individual level expression of behavioral plasticity and (2) draw together empirically yet nontested, conceptual framework to clarify how these factors affect the evolution and expression of individually consistent behavior in nature. The framework is based on simple principles: first, information acquisition requires cognition that is inherently costly to build and maintain. Second, individual differences in animal cognition affect the differences in behavioral flexibility, i.e. the variance around the mean of the behavioral reaction norm, which defines plasticity. Third, along the lines of the evolution of cognition, we predict that environments with moderate variation favor behavioral flexibility. This occurs since in those environments costs of cognition are covered by being able to recognize and use information effectively. Similarly, nonflexible, stereotypic behaviors may be favored in environments that are either invariable or highly variable, since in those environments cognition does not give any benefits to cover the costs or cognition is not able to keep up with environmental change, respectively. If behavioral plasticity develops in response to increasing environmental variability, plasticity should dominate in environments that are moderately variable, and expression of animal personalities and behavioral syndromes may differ between environments. We give suggestions how to test our hypothesis and propose improvements to current behavioral testing protocols in the field of animal personality.
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- Petri T Niemelä
- Department of Biology, University of Oulu P.O. Box 3000, FI-90014, Finland ; Department of Biology, University of Eastern Finland P.O. Box 111, FI-80101, Joensuu, Finland
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Thomson RL, Tomás G, Forsman JT, Mönkkönen M. Manipulating individual decisions and environmental conditions reveal individual quality in decision-making and non-lethal costs of predation risk. PLoS One 2012; 7:e52226. [PMID: 23272226 PMCID: PMC3521717 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0052226] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [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: 07/06/2012] [Accepted: 11/13/2012] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
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Habitat selection is a crucial decision for any organism. Selecting a high quality site will positively impact survival and reproductive output. Predation risk is an important component of habitat quality that is known to impact reproductive success and individual condition. However, separating the breeding consequences of decision-making of wild animals from individual quality is difficult. Individuals face reproductive decisions that often vary with quality such that low quality individuals invest less. This reduced reproductive performance could appear a cost of increased risk but may simply reflect lower quality. Thus, teasing apart the effects of individual quality and the effect of predation risk is vital to understand the physiological and reproductive costs of predation risk alone on breeding animals. In this study we alter the actual territory location decisions of pied flycatchers by moving active nests relative to breeding sparrowhawks, the main predators of adult flycatchers. We experimentally measure the non-lethal effects of predation on adults and offspring while controlling for effects of parental quality, individual territory choice and initiation of breeding. We found that chicks from high predation risk nests (<50 m of hawk) were significantly smaller than chicks from low risk nests (>200 m from hawk). However, in contrast to correlative results, females in manipulated high risk nests did not suffer decreased body condition or increased stress response (HSP60 and HSP70). Our results suggest that territory location decisions relative to breeding avian predators cause spatial gradients in individual quality. Small adjustments in territory location decisions have crucial consequences and our results confirm non-lethal costs of predation risk that were expressed in terms of smaller offspring produced. However, females did not show costs in physiological condition which suggests that part of the costs incurred by adults exposed to predation risk are quality determined.
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- Robert L Thomson
- Section of Ecology, Department of Biology, University of Turku, Turku, Finland.
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Forsman JT, Mönkkönen M, Korpimäki E, Thomson RL. Mammalian nest predator feces as a cue in avian habitat selection decisions. Behav Ecol 2012. [DOI: 10.1093/beheco/ars162] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Optimal investment in offspring is important in maximizing lifetime reproductive success. Yet, very little is known how animals gather and integrate information about environmental factors to fine tune investment. Observing the decisions and success of other individuals, particularly when those individuals initiate breeding earlier, may provide a way for animals to quickly arrive at better breeding investment decisions. Here we show, with a field experiment using artificial nests appearing similar to resident tit nests with completed clutches, that a migratory bird can use the observed high and low clutch size of a resident competing bird species to increase and decrease clutch size and egg mass, accordingly. Our results demonstrate that songbirds can discriminate between high and low quantity of heterospecific eggs, and that social information can have long-term physiological consequences affecting reproductive strategies. Such behaviour may help animals to better adapt to changing environments and lead to convergent traits with competitors.
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Thomson RL, Forsman JT, Mönkkönen M. Risk taking in natural predation risk gradients: support for risk allocation from breeding pied flycatchers. Anim Behav 2011. [DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2011.09.029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [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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Seppänen JT, Forsman JT, Mönkkönen M, Krams I, Salmi T. New behavioural trait adopted or rejected by observing heterospecific tutor fitness. Proc Biol Sci 2010; 278:1736-41. [PMID: 21068038 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.1610] [Citation(s) in RCA: 73] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Animals can acquire behaviours from others, including heterospecifics, but should be discriminating in when and whom to copy. Successful individuals should be preferred as tutors, while adopting traits of poorly performing individuals should be actively avoided. Thus far it is unknown if such adaptive strategies are involved when individuals copy other species. Furthermore, rejection of traits based on tutor characteristics (negative bias) has not been shown in any non-human animal. Here we test whether a choice between two new, neutral behavioural alternatives-breeding-sites with alternative geometric symbols-is affected by observing the choice and fitness of a heterospecific tutor. A field experiment replicated in four different areas shows that the proportion of pied flycatcher females matching the choice of the tit tutor consistently increased with increasing number of offspring in the tit nest, to the extent of nearly complete prevalence in one of the areas when tit fitness was highest. Notably, all four replicates demonstrate rejection of the behaviour of lowest-fitness tutors. The results demonstrate both acquisition and avoidance of heterospecific behavioural traits, based on the perceived (lack of) tutor fitness. This has potential implications for understanding the origin, diversity and local adaptations of behavioural traits, and niche overlap/partitioning and species co-occurrence.
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- Janne-Tuomas Seppänen
- Department of Biological and Environmental Science, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland.
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Thomson RL, Tomás G, Forsman JT, Broggi J, Mönkkönen M. Predator proximity as a stressor in breeding flycatchers: mass loss, stress protein induction, and elevated provisioning. Ecology 2010; 91:1832-40. [DOI: 10.1890/09-0989.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Hjernquist MB, Thuman Hjernquist KA, Forsman JT, Gustafsson L. Sex allocation in response to local resource competition over breeding territories. Behav Ecol 2009. [DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arp002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Current life-history theory predicts that increased mortality at early stages of life leads to reduced initial investment (e.g. clutch size) but increased subsequent investment during the reproduction attempt. In a field experiment, migratory pied flycatchers Ficedula hypoleuca perceived differences in mammalian nest predation risk and altered their reproductive strategies in two respects. First, birds avoided nest sites manipulated to reflect the presence of a predator. Second, birds breeding in risky areas nested 4 days earlier and laid 10 per cent larger clutches than those in safe areas, a result that runs counter to the prevailing life-history paradigm. We suggest that the overwhelming importance of nest predation to individual fitness reduces the value of collecting other information on habitat features leading to expedited onset of nesting, and, consequently, to larger clutch size.
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- Mikko Mönkkönen
- Department of Biological and Environmental Science, University of Jyväskylä, PO Box 35, Jyväskylä 40014, Finland.
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Decision making can be facilitated by observing other individuals faced with the same or similar problem, and recent research suggests that this social information use is a widespread phenomenon. Implications of this are diverse and profound: for example, social information use may trigger cultural evolution, affect distribution and dispersal of populations, and involve intriguing cognitive traits. We emphasize here that social information use is a process consisting of the scenes of (1) event, (2) observation, (3) decision, and (4) consequence, where the initial event is a scene in such a process of another individual. This helps to construct a sound conceptual framework for measuring and studying social information use. Importantly, the potential value of social information is affected by the distance in time, space, and ecology between the initial observation and eventual consequence of a decision. Because negative interactions between individuals (such as direct and apparent competition) also depend on the distance between individuals along these dimensions, the potential value of information and the negative interactions may form a trade-off situation. Optimal solutions to this trade-off can result in adaptively extended social information use, where using information gathered some time ago, some distance away, and from ecologically different individuals is preferred. Conceivably, using information gathered from a heterospecific individual might often be optimal. Many recent studies demonstrate that social information use does occur between species, and the first review of published cases is provided here. Such interaction between species, especially in habitat selection, has important consequences for community ecology and conservation. Adaptively extended social information use may also be an important evolutionary force in guild formation. Complex coevolutionary patterns may result depending on the effect of information use on the provider of information.
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- Janne-Tuomas Seppänen
- Department of Biological and Environmental Science, POB 35, FIN-40014, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland.
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Seppänen JT, Forsman JT. Interspecific social learning: novel preference can be acquired from a competing species. Curr Biol 2007; 17:1248-52. [PMID: 17614285 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2007.06.034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/22/2007] [Revised: 06/12/2007] [Accepted: 06/13/2007] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Nongenetic transmission of behavioral traits via social learning allows local traditions in humans, and, controversially, in other animals [1-4]. Social learning is usually studied as an intraspecific phenomenon (but see [5-7]). However, other species with some overlap in ecology can be more than merely potential competitors: prior settlement and longer residence can render them preferable sources of information [8]. Socially induced acquisition of choices or preferences capitalizes upon the knowledge of presumably better-informed individuals [9] and should be adaptive under many natural circumstances [10, 11]. Here we show with a field experiment that females of two migrant flycatcher species can acquire a novel, arbitrary preference of competing resident tits for a symbol attached to the nest sites. The experiment demonstrates that such blind acquisition of heterospecific traits can occur in the wild. Even though genetic variation for habitat preferences exists in many taxa [12] and overlap between bird species likely induces costs [13], this result shows that interspecific social learning can cause increased overlap in nest-site preferences. Conventional, negative species interactions push ecological niches of species apart, but the use of competing species as a source of information counters that force and may lead to convergence.
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- Janne-Tuomas Seppänen
- Department of Biological and Environmental Science, POB 35, University of Jyväskylä, FIN-40014 Jyväskylä, Finland.
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Veen T, Svedin N, Forsman JT, Hjernquist MB, Qvarnström A, Hjernquist KAT, Träff J, Klaassen M. Does migration of hybrids contribute to post-zygotic isolation in flycatchers? Proc Biol Sci 2007; 274:707-12. [PMID: 17254995 PMCID: PMC2197218 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2006.0058] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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In the face of hybridization, species integrity can only be maintained through post-zygotic isolating barriers (PIBs). PIBs need not only be intrinsic (i.e. hybrid inviability and sterility caused by developmental incompatibilities), but also can be extrinsic due to the hybrid's intermediate phenotype falling between the parental niches. For example, in migratory species, hybrid fitness might be reduced as a result of intermediate migration pathways and reaching suboptimal wintering grounds. Here, we test this idea by comparing the juvenile to adult survival probabilities as well as the wintering grounds of pied flycatchers (Ficedula hypoleuca), collared flycatchers (Ficedula albicollis) and their hybrids using stable isotope ratios of carbon (delta13C) and nitrogen (delta15N) in feathers developed at the wintering site. Our result supports earlier observations of largely segregated wintering grounds of the two parental species. The isotope signature of hybrids clustered with that of pied flycatchers. We argue that this pattern can explain the high annual survival of hybrid flycatchers. Hence, dominant expression of the traits of one of the parental species in hybrids may substantially reduce the ecological costs of hybridization.
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- Thor Veen
- Theoretical Biology Group, Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Studies, University of Groningen, Kerklaan 30, 9751 NN Haren, The Netherlands.
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Thomson RL, Forsman JT, Mönkkönen M, Hukkanen M, Koivula K, Rytkönen S, Orell M. Predation risk effects on fitness related measures in a resident bird. OIKOS 2006. [DOI: 10.1111/j.2006.0030-1299.14376.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Thomson RL, Forsman JT, Mönkkönen M. Positive interactions between migrant and resident birds: testing the heterospecific attraction hypothesis. Oecologia 2003; 134:431-8. [PMID: 12647152 DOI: 10.1007/s00442-002-1140-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/11/2002] [Accepted: 11/16/2002] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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We experimentally tested the conditions where heterospecific attraction is more likely to occur. The heterospecific attraction hypothesis predicts that colonizing or migrant individuals use the presence of resident species as a cue for profitable breeding sites. In other words, increasing resident densities will result in increased migrant densities until the costs of interspecific competition override the benefits of heterospecific attraction. The experiment consisted of a reference and a manipulation year. In the reference year, resident titmice were permitted to breed at intermediate densities whilst in the manipulation year, resident densities were manipulated in nine study plots. Three treatments were performed as low, intermediate and high resident densities and migrant density responses were measured in both years. Relative between-year migrant and resident densities were analyzed by regression analysis. Migrant foliage gleaning guild densities responded linearly and positively, as did densities of habitat generalists, in particular Chaffinch ( Fringilla coelebs),. The ground-foraging guild did not show a response. This study provides support for predictions of the heterospecific attraction hypothesis and suggests that information on habitat quality with reference to both food availability and safe breeding sites are important in using heterospecifics as cues. Based on Chaffinch response data, artificially increased resident densities were not high enough for competitive effects between residents and migrants to decrease heterospecific attraction. It seems unlikely that in northern environments natural resident densities will reach high levels where competitive effects would occur, therefore heterospecific attraction will always be beneficial. This study again shows the importance of heterospecific attraction in migrant habitat selection and as a process promoting species diversity in northern breeding bird assemblages.
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- Robert L Thomson
- Department of Biology, University of Oulu, POB 3000, 90014 Oulu, Finland.
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The coexistence of species sharing mutual resources is usually thought to be limited by negative processes such as interspecific competition. This is because an overlap in resource use leads to negative fitness consequences, and traits favouring avoidance of potential competitors, for example in habitat selection, are therefore selected for. However, species interactions are acknowledged to vary from negative (competition) to mutualism, although empirical evidence for positive interspecific interactions from natural communities of other than plants and sessile animals is scarce. Here, we experimentally examined the habitat selection and its fitness consequences of a migrant bird, the pied flycatcher (Ficedula hypoleuca), in relation to the presence of competitively superior birds, resident titmice (Parus spp.). Experiments were conducted on two spatial scales: landscape and nest-site scale. We demonstrate that pied flycatchers were attracted to and accrued fitness benefits from the presence of titmice. Flycatchers breeding in tight association with titmice initiated breeding earlier, had larger broods and heavier young than solitarily breeding flycatchers. This paradoxical result indicates that species interactions may switch from negative to positive and that the coexistence of species is not always restricted by negative costs caused by other species.
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- J T Forsman
- Department of Biology, University of Oulu, PO Box 3000, FIN-90014 Oulu, Finland.
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Mönkkönen M, Härdling R, Forsman JT, Tuomi J. Evolution of heterospecific attraction: using other species as cues in habitat selection. Evol Ecol 1999. [DOI: 10.1023/a:1006590215306] [Citation(s) in RCA: 88] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Forsman JT, Mönkkönen M, Helle P, Inkeröinen J. Heterospecific attraction and food resources in migrants' breeding patch selection in northern boreal forest. Oecologia 1998; 115:278-286. [DOI: 10.1007/s004420050517] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Mönkkönen M, Forsman JT, Helle P, Monkkonen M. Mixed-Species Foraging Aggregations and Heterospecific Attraction in Boreal Bird Communities. OIKOS 1996. [DOI: 10.2307/3545592] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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