Temporal differences in food abundance promote coexistence between two congeneric passerines

Veen, Thor; Sheldon, Ben C.; Weissing, Franz J.; Visser, Marcel E.; Qvarnström, Anna; Sætre, Glenn‐Peter

doi:10.1007/s00442-009-1544-1

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“…Interestingly, populations of passerine birds throughout Europe occupy habitats with distinctly different resource phenology in line with our model assumptions. For example, several species breed either in oak habitats, where caterpillars exist in great abundance during a short time period during spring or in coniferous habitats with lower and later caterpillar abundance peaks Blondel 2007;Veen et al 2010). The resource phenology in coniferous habitats seems relatively constant while the resource peak in oak habitats is correlated with spring temperature Burger et al 2012), which is in line with one of our assumed scenarios of change (scenario 3, Fig.…”

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“…Other possibilities for extensions include phenotypic plasticity in the timing of reproduction, sexual reproduction, density dependent dispersal or to study asymmetries in the resource abundances among habitats (e.g. Veen et al 2010). Already with this simple model, using a minimum of assumptions, we obtained a surprising richness in eco-evolutionary responses to resource shifts.…”

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Adaptation of timing of life history traits and population dynamic responses to climate change in spatially structured populations

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Changes in the seasonal timing of life history events are documented effects of climate change. We used a general model to study how dispersal and competitive interactions affect eco-evolutionary responses to changes in the temporal distribution of resources over the season. Specifically, we modeled adaptation of the timing of reproduction and population dynamic responses in two competing populations that disperse between two habitats characterized by an early and late resource peak. We investigated three scenarios of environmental change: (1) food peaks advance in both habitats, (2) in the late habitat only and (3) in the early habitat only. At low dispersal rates the evolutionarily stable timing of reproduction closely matched the local resource peak and the environmental change typically caused population decline. Larger dispersal rates rendered less intuitive ecoevolutionary population responses. First, dispersal caused mismatch between evolutionarily stable timing of reproduction and local resource peaks and as a result, reproductive output for subpopulations could increase as well as decrease when resource availability underwent temporal shifts. Second, population responses were contingent on competition between populations. This could accelerate population declines and cause extinctions or even reverse population trends from negative to positive compared to the low dispersal case. When dispersal rate was large and the early resource peak was advanced available niche space was reduced. Hence, even when a population survived the environmental change and obtained positive equilibrium population density, subsequent adaptation of competing populations could drive it to extinction due to convergent evolution and competitive exclusion. These results shed new light on the role of competition and dispersal for the evolution of timing of life history events and provide guidelines for understanding short and long-term population response to climate change.

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Adaptation of timing of life history traits and population dynamic responses to climate change in spatially structured populations

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“…Modified, with permission, from [18]. deciduous forest in Central Europe is a possible example [58,59]. In other cases, aggressive interference can enable coexistence by causing temporal shifts in habitat use.…”

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Causes and Consequences of Behavioral Interference between Species

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Behavioral interference between species, such as territorial aggression, courtship, and mating, is widespread in animals. While aggressive and reproductive forms of interspecific interference have generally been studied separately, their many parallels and connections warrant a unified conceptual approach. Substantial evidence exists that aggressive and reproductive interference have pervasive effects on species coexistence, range limits, and evolutionary processes, including divergent and convergent forms of character displacement. Alien species invasions and climate change-induced range shifts result in novel interspecific interactions, heightening the importance of predicting the consequences of species interactions, and behavioral interference is a fundamental but neglected part of the equation. Here, we outline priorities for further theoretical and empirical research on the ecological and evolutionary consequences of behavioral interference. Interspecific Aggression and Reproductive InterferenceFew subjects in animal behavior have attracted more attention than aggression and sex, yet research tends to stop at species boundaries even when the behaviors themselves do not. Aggressive and sexual interactions between species are surprisingly common and share many parallels in their causes and ecological and evolutionary effects [1][2][3][4][5][6]. Both types of behavioral interference (Box 1) have been hypothesized to: (i) arise as a byproduct of intraspecific interactions (Box 2); (ii) cause local extinction as well as temporal and spatial habitat partitioning; (iii) prevent species from coexisting that otherwise would be expected to coexist; (iv) enable coexistence between species that otherwise would not be expected to coexist; (v) promote or prevent species range shifts and the spread of invasive species; (vi) cause sympatric species to diverge or converge through character displacement processes; (vii) cause populations within a species to diverge from each other due to character displacement in areas of sympatry; and (viii) contribute to reproductive isolation and speciation ( Figure 1).Despite their connections, aggressive interference and reproductive interference (see Glossary) have largely been studied by different researchers in relation to different theoretical frameworks [2,4,7] and in different study systems [3], even though many closely related species interfere with each other in both ways (see Table S1 in [8]). We do not believe that these two categories of interspecific interactions should be synonymized, because this would obscure important differences between them. Instead, we propose that their similarities and interrelationships merit a common conceptual framework, which we introduce here ( Figure 1). TrendsAggressive and reproductive forms of behavioral interference between species are widespread in animals and share many parallels in their underlying causes and their ecological and evolutionary effects.Behavioral interference can determine whether species coexist and, thus, affects speci...

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“…Many woodland breeding birds are thought to have adapted their egg-laying dates such that the period when they are feeding their young corresponds to the caterpillar peak (Perrins 1970, 1979, 1991, Siikamäki 1998, van Balen 1973. Oak (Quercus) trees are particularly important as they hold especially high densities of defoliators compared with other species (Veen et al 2010).…”

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“…Although there have been many individual projects in Britain and elsewhere looking at the timing of the caterpillar peak (Maziarz & Wesol / / / / / owski 2010, Naef-Daenzer & Keller 1999, Perrins 1991, Seki & Takano 1998, Sisask et al 2010, van Balen 1973, Veen et al 2010, only in the Netherlands have extensive studies been reported , Both et al 2006. Variation in the abundance of defoliating caterpillars in woodlands can be measured by the volume of frass (the material that plant-eating insects pass as waste after digestion) which falls from the canopy (Tinbergen 1960, Tinbergen & Dietz 1994.…”

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Large-scale variation in the temporal patterns of the frass fall of defoliating caterpillars in oak woodlands in Britain: implications for nesting woodland birds

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Temporal differences in food abundance promote coexistence between two congeneric passerines

Cited by 59 publications

References 36 publications

Adaptation of timing of life history traits and population dynamic responses to climate change in spatially structured populations

Adaptation of timing of life history traits and population dynamic responses to climate change in spatially structured populations

Causes and Consequences of Behavioral Interference between Species

Large-scale variation in the temporal patterns of the frass fall of defoliating caterpillars in oak woodlands in Britain: implications for nesting woodland birds

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