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Interspecific territoriality has facilitated recent increases in the breeding habitat overlap of North American passerines

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ECOGRAPHY
卷 2023, 期 6, 页码 -

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WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/ecog.06573

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behavioural interference; hybridisation; interspecific territoriality; passerines; range dynamics; syntopy

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As species' ranges shift due to human-induced global changes, species interactions are expected to have a significant impact on range dynamics and the composition of modified species assemblages. While most research focuses on the effects of trophic interactions and exploitative competition, this study found that interspecific competition for territories has had a stabilizing influence on species coexistence over the past two decades.
As species' ranges shift in response to human-induced global changes, species interactions are expected to play a large role in shaping the resultant range dynamics and, subsequently, the composition of modified species assemblages. Most research on the impact of species interactions on range dynamics focuses on the effects of trophic interactions and exploitative competition for resources, but an emerging body of work shows that interspecific competition for territories and mates also affects species range shifts. As such, it is paramount to build a strong understanding of how these forms of behavioural interference between species impact landscape-scale patterns. Here, we examine recent (1997-2019) range dynamics of North American passerines to test the hypothesis that behavioural interference impacts the ease with which species move across landscapes. Over this 22 year period, we found that fine-scale spatial overlap between species (syntopy) increased more for species pairs that engage in interspecific territoriality than for those that do not. We found no evidence, however, for an effect of reproductive interference (hybridisation) on syntopy, and no effect of either type of interference on range-wide overlap (sympatry). Examining the net effects of species interactions on continent-scale range shifts may require species occurrence data spanning longer time periods than are currently available for North American passerines, but our results show that interspecific territoriality has had an overall stabilising influence on species coexistence over the past two decades.

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