期刊
ECOLOGY LETTERS
卷 24, 期 2, 页码 227-238出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/ele.13634
关键词
Arctic; barnacle goose; climate change; integral projection models; life table response experiments; population dynamics; trait-mediated and modified effects; transient LTRE
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资金
- NWO
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- BIRDHEALTH [851.40.071]
- Geese on Arctic Tundra [866.12.407]
- EU FP7-project FRAGILE
- University of Groningen
- Norwegian Polar Institute
- Research Council of Norway [276080, 223257, 282619]
The study found that herbivore population dynamics are not sensitive to changes in body condition, but have significant impacts on reproductive behavior and fledgling survival, partly due to positive responses to rapidly advancing spring phenology.
Environmental change influences fitness-related traits and demographic rates, which in herbivores are often linked to resource-driven variation in body condition. Coupled body condition-demographic responses may therefore be important for herbivore population dynamics in fluctuating environments, such as the Arctic. We applied a transient Life-Table Response Experiment ('transient-LTRE') to demographic data from Svalbard barnacle geese (Branta leucopsis), to quantify their population-dynamic responses to changes in body mass. We partitioned contributions from direct and delayed demographic and body condition-mediated processes to variation in population growth. Declines in body condition (1980-2017), which positively affected reproduction and fledgling survival, had negligible consequences for population growth. Instead, population growth rates were largely reproduction-driven, in part through positive responses to rapidly advancing spring phenology. The virtual lack of body condition-mediated effects indicates that herbivore population dynamics may be more resilient to changing body condition than previously expected, with implications for their persistence under environmental change.
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