Longer days enable higher diurnal activity for migratory birds
Longer days enable higher diurnal activity for migratory birds
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2021
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Pokrovsky, Ivan
Sherub, Sherub
Glazov, Peter
Kulikova, Olga
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Journal of Animal Ecology ; 90 (2021), 9. - pp. 2161-2171. - Wiley. - ISSN 0021-8790. - eISSN 1365-2656
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1. Seasonal geophysical cycles strongly influence the activity of life on Earth because they affect environmental conditions like temperature, precipitation, and daylength. An increase in daylight availability during summer is especially enhanced when animals migrate along a latitudinal gradient. Yet, the question of how daylength (i.e. daylight availability) influences the activity patterns of long-distance, latitudinal migrants is still unclear.
2. Here, we ask whether migration provides benefits to long-distance migrants by enabling them to increase their diurnal movement activities due to an increase in daylight availability. To answer this question, we tested whether four vastly different species of long-distance migratory birds - two arctic migrants and two mid-latitude migrants - can capitalise on day length changes by adjusting their daily activity.
3. We quantified the relationship between daily activity (measured using accelerometer data) and day length, and estimated each species' daily activity patterns. In addition, we evaluated the role of day length as an ultimate driver of bird migration.
4. All four species exhibited longer activity periods during days with more daylight hours, showing a strong positive relationship between total daily activity and day length. The slope of this relationship varied between the different species, with activity increasing 1.5-fold on average when migrating from wintering to breeding grounds. Underlying mechanisms of these relationships reveal two distinct patterns of daily activity. Flying foragers showed increasing activity patterns, i.e. their daytime activities rose uniformly up to solar noon and decreased until dusk, thereby exhibiting a season-specific activity slope. In contrast, ground foragers showed a constant activity pattern, whereby they immediately increased their activity to a certain level and maintained this level throughout the day.
5. Our study reveals that long days allow birds to prolong their activity and increase their total daily activity. These findings highlight that daylight availability could be an additional ultimate cause of bird migration and act as a selective agent for the evolution of migration.
2. Here, we ask whether migration provides benefits to long-distance migrants by enabling them to increase their diurnal movement activities due to an increase in daylight availability. To answer this question, we tested whether four vastly different species of long-distance migratory birds - two arctic migrants and two mid-latitude migrants - can capitalise on day length changes by adjusting their daily activity.
3. We quantified the relationship between daily activity (measured using accelerometer data) and day length, and estimated each species' daily activity patterns. In addition, we evaluated the role of day length as an ultimate driver of bird migration.
4. All four species exhibited longer activity periods during days with more daylight hours, showing a strong positive relationship between total daily activity and day length. The slope of this relationship varied between the different species, with activity increasing 1.5-fold on average when migrating from wintering to breeding grounds. Underlying mechanisms of these relationships reveal two distinct patterns of daily activity. Flying foragers showed increasing activity patterns, i.e. their daytime activities rose uniformly up to solar noon and decreased until dusk, thereby exhibiting a season-specific activity slope. In contrast, ground foragers showed a constant activity pattern, whereby they immediately increased their activity to a certain level and maintained this level throughout the day.
5. Our study reveals that long days allow birds to prolong their activity and increase their total daily activity. These findings highlight that daylight availability could be an additional ultimate cause of bird migration and act as a selective agent for the evolution of migration.
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Bird migration, life history, behavioural ecology, animal activity patterns, animal movement, global change, seasonality, bio-logging
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POKROVSKY, Ivan, Andrea KÖLZSCH, Sherub SHERUB, Wolfgang FIEDLER, Peter GLAZOV, Olga KULIKOVA, Martin WIKELSKI, Andrea FLACK, 2021. Longer days enable higher diurnal activity for migratory birds. In: Journal of Animal Ecology. Wiley. 90(9), pp. 2161-2171. ISSN 0021-8790. eISSN 1365-2656. Available under: doi: 10.1111/1365-2656.13484BibTex
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