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DOI | 10.1093/beheco/arae023 |
Small-scale land-use change effects on breeding success in a desert-living social bird | |
Oswald, Krista N.; Berger-Tal, Oded; Roll, Uri | |
发表日期 | 2024 |
ISSN | 1045-2249 |
EISSN | 1465-7279 |
起始页码 | 35 |
结束页码 | 3 |
卷号 | 35期号:3 |
英文摘要 | Human villages in deserts can provide resources in an otherwise stark environment, potentially buffering against extreme environmental conditions. It is thus expected that breeding within these villages would result in higher fitness. However, choosing to raise offspring in these resource-rich environments may have unintended negative consequences. Here, we studied the breeding success of a cooperative breeding bird nesting in habitats with different levels of human disturbance-the Arabian babbler (Argya squamiceps), in the Negev desert of Israel. We recorded 42 breeding attempts from 15 groups between March and July 2022. We examined overall breeding success, brood size, and causes of nest failure. When nestlings were 6 days old, we also calculated daily change in body mass and adult provisioning rate. We found that despite higher resource abundance in villages, proximity to villages did not affect provisioning rate, and nestlings gained less mass at higher temperatures for all nests. Currently, there is no evidence that human villages are providing oases of resources for nesting babblers. Further, various conservation interventions (e.g., encouraging residents to keep cats indoors) could improve babblers' overall fitness. Ultimately, we highlight how, for some desert specialists, additional resources provided by humans may not do enough to counter potential negative effects. For desert specialists, urban expansion of settlements and agriculture in their desert habitat initially may seem to provide an oasis of resources in an otherwise stark environment, but looks can be deceiving. Using direct observations of nests in a mosaic of habitat types, we show that nesting in villages provides no benefits to breeding success in a cooperative desert-specialist bird, despite the apparent increase in available resources. |
英文关键词 | ecological trap; human-modified habitat; nest success; predation; provisioning rate; urban ecology |
语种 | 英语 |
WOS研究方向 | Behavioral Sciences ; Life Sciences & Biomedicine - Other Topics ; Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Zoology |
WOS类目 | Behavioral Sciences ; Biology ; Ecology ; Zoology |
WOS记录号 | WOS:001199643900001 |
来源期刊 | BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY
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文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/302876 |
作者单位 | Ben Gurion University; Ben Gurion University |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Oswald, Krista N.,Berger-Tal, Oded,Roll, Uri. Small-scale land-use change effects on breeding success in a desert-living social bird[J],2024,35(3). |
APA | Oswald, Krista N.,Berger-Tal, Oded,&Roll, Uri.(2024).Small-scale land-use change effects on breeding success in a desert-living social bird.BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY,35(3). |
MLA | Oswald, Krista N.,et al."Small-scale land-use change effects on breeding success in a desert-living social bird".BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY 35.3(2024). |
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