Despotic establishment of breeding colonies of greater flamingos, Phoenicopterus ruber , in southern Spain

Rendón, Miguel A.; Garrido, Araceli; Ramı́rez, José M.; Rendón‐Martos, Manuel; Amat, Juan A.

doi:10.1007/s002650100326

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“…With few individuals at the Gediz Delta colony (8), we could consider only two age-classes. We decided to set the cut-off point between the two age-classes where recruitment ends because it is possible that the dominance of older flamingos established by Rendón et al (2001) is related to the dominance of experienced breeders over first-time breeders. Recruitment in flamingos is possible at the age of 3, but it is known often to be delayed (Johnson et al 1993;Cézilly et al 1996;Pradel et al 1997;Johnson 2000;Tavecchia et al 2001), either due to environmental constraints or as an individual strategy (Nager et al 1996;Pradel et al 1997;Tavecchia et al 2001).…”

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“…In the Greater Flamingo, the distribution of individuals among colonies could be shaped according to an age-related despotism, resulting in differential dispersal (natal and breeding) with younger breeders displaced to lower quality colony sites (Nager et al 1996;Rendón et al 2001). The Camargue colony in France is a long-established, highly saturated and competitive breeding site (Cézilly and Johnson 1995;Cézilly et al 1996;Nager et al 1996;Johnson 1997a;Pradel et al 1997).…”

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Range of the Greater Flamingo, Phoenicopterus roseus, metapopulation in the Mediterranean: new insights from Turkey

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Metapopulation conservation should rely on a flyway approach aiming at assessing the spatial range of metapopulations by estimating the level of exchanges among local populations. In the western Mediterranean, Greater Flamingos have been shown to constitute a metapopulation with natal and breeding dispersal among colonies. In this paper, we examine whether this metapopulation reaches Turkey using a band-resighting study. Our results are the first evidence of natal and breeding dispersal from the western Mediterranean to Turkey, and suggest that the Gediz Delta, one of the two Turkish breeding colonies, can play a significant role in the recruitment of flamingos from the western Mediterranean. In 2003 and 2004, breeders of western Mediterranean origin accounted for more than 1.2 and 1.9% of the estimated breeding population of the Gediz Delta, respectively. Our observations also indicate that the western Mediterranean and Southwest Asia may constitute two sets of populations, which overlap in Turkey. Finally, the resightings of flamingos banded in Turkey show that post-fledging dispersal from Turkey reaches both the eastern and western Mediterranean wetlands. Future data on the natal and breeding dispersal of flamingos born in Turkey could clarify further the connection between Turkey and the western Mediterranean metapopulation.

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Range of the Greater Flamingo, Phoenicopterus roseus, metapopulation in the Mediterranean: new insights from Turkey

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“…This suggests that the individuals that breed in a given year in Fuente de Piedra had spent the previous winter in wetlands located within two journeys of flight to the breeding site. This would allow such individuals to move quickly to the nesting site in late winter or early spring to attempt breeding, which may be very important in order to acquire a site in which to nest, given that competition for nesting sites is high (Rendó n et al, 2001). …”

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“…Greater flamingos are major components of the avifauna of saline and brackish shallow wetlands around the Mediterranean. The largest colony of this species in Spain is located at Fuente de Piedra lake, where 500-19,500 pairs bred during 1977(Rendó n et al, 2001. In this lake water levels exhibit considerable variations, both within as well as between breeding seasons (Rendó n-Martos, 1996).…”

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Ranging behaviour of greater flamingos during the breeding and post-breeding periods: Linking connectivity to biological processes

Amat

Rendón

Rendón‐Martos

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Biological Conservation

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Connectivity among habitat patches has mainly been studied in relation to species-specific behaviours. However, the movements of animals among patches may have different functions, and tolerance to gaps between habitat patches may vary between these functions. We tracked the movements of greater flamingos during the breeding and post-breeding periods with the aim of illustrating how the degree of connectivity may vary depending on the biological processes underlying the movements between wetlands. Most foraging sites used by breeding adults in a colony in southern Spain were within 200 km of the colony site, although some birds eventually moved 400 km. After the breeding season, the adults remained for several weeks in specific wetlands, moving to other sites located 280-2100 km away to overwinter. During these movements the birds may use stopover sites, the conservation of which may be critical to facilitate long-range movements. Our results suggest that wetland connectivity during chick rearing does not seem to be determined by whether or not central-place foraging flamingos are able to reach wetlands located at the longest distance that they are able to fly during non-stop flights (>1000 km), but by whether they are able to sustain the energetic costs derived from frequent commuting. In contrast, long-distance movements were occasionally undertaken during the post-breeding period. The energetic costs of such flights could be paid by flamingos because these movements were infrequent. Thus, in the case of flamingos, connectedness thresholds between wetlands vary depending on the biological process involved (chick rearing or post-breeding movements). This emphasizes the need to consider different types of connectivity in conservation planning..

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“…Dominant individuals obtain high-quality resources, whereas subordinates are left with poorer-quality resources or none at all; this outcome is known as despotic distribution (Krebs 1971;Hemelrijk 1999;Rendón et al 2001). Empirical studies have supported the outcome of despotic distribution in mammals (Packer 1979;Lott 1981;McElligott 2001;Muniz et al 2010), birds (Holm 1973;Yosef and Pinshow 1989;Webster 1994), reptiles (Schuett 1997), and fishes (Kodric-Brown 1978;Cole 1982;Fernö 1987;Grand and Grant 1994).…”

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Dominance status reversal based on pair-bond formation in the convict cichlid (Amatitlania nigrofasciata)

Gagliardi-Seeley

2012

J Ethol

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Dominant individuals have access to higherquality resource; thus, reversing their dominance status would be important for subordinate individuals. Using the convict cichlid fish (Amatitlania nigrofasciata), this study examines whether forming a pair bond can reverse dominance status. Furthermore, I hypothesize that female convict cichlids will incur more dominance reversals from pair-bond formation than males. Dyadic, same-sex contests were conducted to determine dominant and subordinate individuals. Forced pairing of these individuals based on status was followed by polyadic, between-pair contests.The results indicate that individual dominance status does carry over into between-pair competition. Furthermore, dominance reversals do occur in convict cichlids and occur more frequently in females than in males. In addition, dominant males assist their mates during aggressive encounters, and these assists may account for subordinate females winning against dominant females during polyadic contests.

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Despotic establishment of breeding colonies of greater flamingos, Phoenicopterus ruber , in southern Spain

Cited by 44 publications

References 22 publications

Range of the Greater Flamingo, Phoenicopterus roseus, metapopulation in the Mediterranean: new insights from Turkey

Range of the Greater Flamingo, Phoenicopterus roseus, metapopulation in the Mediterranean: new insights from Turkey

Ranging behaviour of greater flamingos during the breeding and post-breeding periods: Linking connectivity to biological processes

Dominance status reversal based on pair-bond formation in the convict cichlid (Amatitlania nigrofasciata)

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