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DOI	10.1016/j.avrs.2024.100173
	Weather influenced nestling growth of an insectivorous but not a granivorous grassland passerine in Argentina
	Colombo, Martin Alejandro; Jauregui, Adrian; Segura, Luciano N.
发表日期	2024
ISSN	2053-7166
起始页码	15
卷号	15
英文摘要	Nestling growth of birds can be affected by weather fluctuations. In general, it is expected that higher temperatures favor growth by improving food availability and nestling metabolism, while rain hinders it by reducing foraging efficiency. However, most of these patterns have been described in insectivorous cavity-nesting birds in temperate forests. We tested these predictions in two neotropical grassland ground-nesting birds with contrasting nestling diets and therefore potentially different responses to weather. We measured nestlings of the Hellmayr's Pipit (Anthus hellmayri, an insectivorous passerine) and the Grassland Yellow-Finch (Sicalis luteola, which feeds its nestlings exclusively with seeds) during three breeding seasons (2017-2020) in central-eastern Argentina. We took measurements of tarsus and body mass, modeled growth curves using nonlinear mixed-effects models, and evaluated the effects of minimum daily temperature and precipitation during the growth period and the 30 days prior to hatching. For pipits (60 nestlings from 21 nests), minimum temperatures during the growth period were positively associated with tarsus and body mass asymptotes. Also, there was a positive association between precipitation during the pre-hatching period and tarsus asymptote. Conversely, none of the weather variables analyzed had significant effects on nestling growth of finches (131 nestlings from 35 nests). Dietary contrast between species may explain the different results. Arthropod activity and abundance can be affected by weather variations within the span of a breeding season, whereas seeds may depend on conditions from previous years, making the effects harder to detect. Fledglings with reduced asymptotic size can have reduced chances of survival. Hence, pipit populations could be impacted if they experience cold and dry conditions during their breeding season, which is of major relevance in the current context of climate change.
英文关键词	Finches; Grassland birds; Neotropical birds; Pipits; Precipitation; Temperature
语种	英语
WOS研究方向	Zoology
WOS类目	Ornithology
WOS记录号	WOS:001219432300001
来源期刊	AVIAN RESEARCH
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/290312
作者单位	Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas (CONICET); National University of La Plata
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Colombo, Martin Alejandro,Jauregui, Adrian,Segura, Luciano N.. Weather influenced nestling growth of an insectivorous but not a granivorous grassland passerine in Argentina[J],2024,15.
APA	Colombo, Martin Alejandro,Jauregui, Adrian,&Segura, Luciano N..(2024).Weather influenced nestling growth of an insectivorous but not a granivorous grassland passerine in Argentina.AVIAN RESEARCH,15.
MLA	Colombo, Martin Alejandro,et al."Weather influenced nestling growth of an insectivorous but not a granivorous grassland passerine in Argentina".AVIAN RESEARCH 15(2024).