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ToolsMorrison, Catriona A., Gill, Jennifer A., Buchan, Claire, Robinson, Robert A., Arizaga, Juan, Baltà, Oriol, Baltag, Emanuel, Cepák, Jaroslav, Henry, Pierre-Yves, Henshaw, Ian, Karcza, Zsolt, Lehikoinen, Petteri, Lopes, Ricardo Jorge, Meister, Bert, Pirrello, Simone, Thorup, Kasper and Butler, Simon J. (2025) How do synchrony in survival and productivity influence abundance synchrony in European landbirds? Ecology Letters, 28 (5). ISSN 1461-023X
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Abstract
Synchronous fluctuations in species' abundance are influenced by synchrony in underlying rates of productivity and survival. However, it remains unclear how rate synchrony varies in space and time, contributes to abundance synchrony, and differs among species. Using long-term annual count (number of adults captured), adult survival and productivity (number of juveniles captured per adult) data for breeding land-birds at ringing sites across Europe, we show that synchrony is strongest and largest scale in productivity and weakest and smallest scale in counts. However, counts fluctuate more synchronously with survival than they do with productivity. These patterns hold for species which do not migrate or only migrate within Europe (European-residents) and those migrating to sub-Saharan Africa (subSaharan-migrants), but the periodicity of productivity and survival synchrony is longer in European-residents than in subSaharan-migrants. This suggests that survival and productivity synchrony may interact to weaken abundance fluctuations but are influenced by environmental drivers operating over differing timescales in European-resident and subSaharan-migrant species.
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| Additional Information: | Peer Review: The peer review history for this article is available at https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway/wos/peer-review/10.1111/ele.70105. Data Availability Statement: The R code and example supporting datasets for this manuscript are available on dryad: DOI https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.pnvx0k709 and github https://github.com/catmorrison/Synchrony. Funding: This study was funded by NERC (project NE/T007354/1). This work was financially supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic (DKRVO 2024–2028/6.I.a, National Museum of the Czech Republic, 00023272). |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | annual variation,avian ecology,conservation,migratory birds,population abundance,productivity,survival rates,ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1100/1105 |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Science > School of Biological Sciences University of East Anglia Research Groups/Centres > Theme - ClimateUEA |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Science > Research Centres > Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Organisms and the Environment |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 15 May 2025 09:30 |
| Last Modified: | 21 May 2025 08:30 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/99276 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/ele.70105 |
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