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When Siberia came to the Netherlands: The response of continental black-tailed godwits to a rare spring weather event

May 29, 2015

Summary90 km), elevated metabolic costs (+8·8% maintenance metabolic rate) and increased foraging rates (+37%).

  • There were few long-term fitness consequences, however, and subsequent breeding seasons instead witnessed high levels of reproductive success and little evidence of carry-over effects.
  • This suggests that populations with continued access to food, behavioural flexibility and time to dissipate the costs of the event can likely withstand the consequences of an extreme weather event. For populations constrained in one of these respects, though, extreme events may entail extreme ecological consequences.

    • Citation Information

    Publication Year 2015
    Title When Siberia came to the Netherlands: The response of continental black-tailed godwits to a rare spring weather event
    DOI 10.1111/1365-2656.12381
    Authors Nathan R. Senner, Mo A. Verhoeven, Jose M. Abad-Gomez, Jorge S. Gutierrez, Jos C. E. W. Hooijmeijer, Rosemarie Kentie, Jose A. Masero, T. Lee Tibbitts, Theunis Piersma
    Publication Type Article
    Publication Subtype Journal Article
    Series Title Journal of Animal Ecology
    Index ID 70168498
    Record Source USGS Publications Warehouse
    USGS Organization Alaska Science Center Biology WTEB

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