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Elliott KH, Chivers LS, Bessey L, Gaston AJ, Hatch SA, Kato A, Osborne O, Ropert-Coudert Y, Speakman JR, Hare JF. Windscapes shape seabird instantaneous energy costs but adult behavior buffers impact on offspring. Mov Ecol 2014; 2:17. [PMID: 26019870 PMCID: PMC4445632 DOI: 10.1186/s40462-014-0017-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/24/2014] [Accepted: 07/25/2014] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
Abstract
BACKGROUND Windscapes affect energy costs for flying animals, but animals can adjust their behavior to accommodate wind-induced energy costs. Theory predicts that flying animals should decrease air speed to compensate for increased tailwind speed and increase air speed to compensate for increased crosswind speed. In addition, animals are expected to vary their foraging effort in time and space to maximize energy efficiency across variable windscapes. RESULTS We examined the influence of wind on seabird (thick-billed murre Uria lomvia and black-legged kittiwake Rissa tridactyla) foraging behavior. Airspeed and mechanical flight costs (dynamic body acceleration and wing beat frequency) increased with headwind speed during commuting flights. As predicted, birds adjusted their airspeed to compensate for crosswinds and to reduce the effect of a headwind, but they could not completely compensate for the latter. As we were able to account for the effect of sampling frequency and wind speed, we accurately estimated commuting flight speed with no wind as 16.6 ms(?1) (murres) and 10.6 ms(?1) (kittiwakes). High winds decreased delivery rates of schooling fish (murres), energy (murres) and food (kittiwakes) but did not impact daily energy expenditure or chick growth rates. During high winds, murres switched from feeding their offspring with schooling fish, which required substantial above-water searching, to amphipods, which required less above-water searching. CONCLUSIONS Adults buffered the adverse effect of high winds on chick growth rates by switching to other food sources during windy days or increasing food delivery rates when weather improved.
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Affiliation(s)
- Kyle Hamish Elliott
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg R3T 2N2, Manitoba, Canada
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg R3T 2N2, Manitoba, Canada
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- Environment Canada, National Wildlife Research Centre, Carleton University, Ottawa K1A 0H3, Ontario, Canada
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- Institute for Seabird Research and Conservation, Anchorage, AK, USA
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- Université de Strasbourg, IPHC, 23 rue Becquerel, Strasbourg 67087, France
- CNRS, UMR7178, Strasbourg 67087, France
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- Department of Biology, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
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- Université de Strasbourg, IPHC, 23 rue Becquerel, Strasbourg 67087, France
- CNRS, UMR7178, Strasbourg 67087, France
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- Institute of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK
- State Key Laboratory of Molecular and Developmental Biology, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1 West Beichen Road, Chaoyang, Beijing, CN-100101, PR China
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg R3T 2N2, Manitoba, Canada
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Frederiksen M, Moe B, Daunt F, Phillips RA, Barrett RT, Bogdanova MI, Boulinier T, Chardine JW, Chastel O, Chivers LS, Christensen-Dalsgaard S, Clément-Chastel C, Colhoun K, Freeman R, Gaston AJ, González-Solís J, Goutte A, Grémillet D, Guilford T, Jensen GH, Krasnov Y, Lorentsen SH, Mallory ML, Newell M, Olsen B, Shaw D, Steen H, Strøm H, Systad GH, Thórarinsson TL, Anker-Nilssen T. Multicolony tracking reveals the winter distribution of a pelagic seabird on an ocean basin scale. DIVERS DISTRIB 2011. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2011.00864.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 140] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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