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DOI10.1002/ece3.10738
Factors affecting the nesting success of Swainson's Thrush (Catharus ustulatus) along an elevational gradient
发表日期2024
ISSN2045-7758
起始页码14
结束页码1
卷号14期号:1
英文摘要Montane birds experience a range of challenges that may limit their breeding success, including nest predation and severe climactic conditions. The continuing effects of climate change are causing shifts in biotic and abiotic factors that may compound these threats to montane bird species. In northeastern montane forests, many bird species are shifting downslope, potentially as the result of increased precipitation and temperature at higher elevations. Although lower elevations might be more favorable in terms of climactic conditions, nest predation is higher at lower elevations. Thus, montane birds might be faced with the opposing pressures of adverse climactic conditions at higher elevations and increased predation at lower elevations. We monitored nests of Swainson's Thrush (Catharus ustulatus) along an elevation gradient in the White Mountain National Forest in New Hampshire in 2016, 2018, 2019, and 2021 to examine the effect of biotic and abiotic factors on daily nest survival rate (DSR). Linear time explained the most variation of DSR in AICc model comparison, indicating that DSR decreases across the breeding season. Rain intensity (mm/h) had a weak negative effect on DSR, indicating that heavier rain per hour decreases Swainson's Thrush DSR. Moreover, we found some support for a negative interaction effect of elevation in conjunction with minimum daily temperature: DSR of Swainson's Thrush nests at low elevations (281 m) increased with increasing minimum daily temperatures and decreased at high elevations with increasing minimum daily temperatures. Our results suggest nesting survival of montane breeding birds may be at risk as heavier precipitation events become more frequent and intense due to the changing climate and raises the possibility that other passerine species could be at risk in this system.
英文关键词abiotic factors; montane; nest survival; White Mountains
语种英语
WOS研究方向Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Evolutionary Biology
WOS类目Ecology ; Evolutionary Biology
WOS记录号WOS:001143929900001
来源期刊ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
文献类型期刊论文
条目标识符http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/301129
作者单位University of Massachusetts System; University of Massachusetts Amherst; University of Massachusetts System; University of Massachusetts Amherst; United States Department of Agriculture (USDA); United States Forest Service
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. Factors affecting the nesting success of Swainson's Thrush (Catharus ustulatus) along an elevational gradient[J],2024,14(1).
APA (2024).Factors affecting the nesting success of Swainson's Thrush (Catharus ustulatus) along an elevational gradient.ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION,14(1).
MLA "Factors affecting the nesting success of Swainson's Thrush (Catharus ustulatus) along an elevational gradient".ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION 14.1(2024).
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