Ecological conditions during winter predict arrival date at the breeding quarters in a trans-Saharan migratory bird

Ecology Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 21-25

  Saino, Nicola ^a   Szép, Tibor ^b   Romano, Maria ^a   Rubolini, Diego ^c   Spina, Fernando ^d   Møller, Anders Pape ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b Department of Agricultural Sciences and Environmental Management   (Hungary)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^d Istituto Nazionale per la Fauna Selvatica   (Italy)

^e Laboratoire de Parasitologie Evolutive CNRS UMR 7103 UFR 927   (France)

Author keywords

Arrival date; Barn swallow; Bird migration; Breeding date; Breeding success; Hirundo rustica; Long distance migration; Normalized difference vegetation index; Population dynamics

Indexed keywords

BREEDING SITE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; MIGRATORY SPECIES; NDVI; POPULATION DYNAMICS; WINTER;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

AVES; HIRUNDINIDAE; HIRUNDO; HIRUNDO RUSTICA;

EID: 0742267773     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.2003.00553.x     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. Archaux, F. (2003). Birds and climate change. Vie Milieu, 53, 33-41.
2. Boone, R.B., Galvin, K.A., Smith, N.M. & Lynn, S.J. (2000). Generalizing El Nino effects upon Maasai livestock using hierarchical clusters of vegetation patterns. Phot. Eng. Rem. Sens., 63, 737-744.
3. Both, C. & Visser, M.E. (2001). Adjustment to climate change is constrained by arrival date in a long-distance migrant bird. Nature, 411, 296-298.
4. Crick, H.Q.P., Dudley, C., Glue, D.E. & Thomson, D.L. (1997). UK birds are laying eggs earlier. Nature, 388, 526-526.
5. Hüppop, O. & Hüppop, K. (2003). North Atlantic Oscillation and timing of spring migration in birds. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B, 270, 233-240.
6. Lack, D. (1968). Bird migration and natural selection. Oikos, 19, 1-9.
7. Lozano, G.A., Perreault, S. & Lemon, R.E. (1996). Age, arrival date and reproductive success of male American redstarts Setophaga ruticilla. J. Avian Biol., 27, 164-170.
8. Møller, A.P. (1989). Population dynamics of a declining swallow Hirundo rustica L. population. J. Anim. Ecol., 58, 1051-1063.
9. Møller, A.P. (1994). Sexual Selection and the Barn Swallow. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
10. Møller, A.P. (2002). North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) effects of climate on the relative importance of first and second clutches in a migratory passerine bird. J. Anim. Ecol., 71, 201-210.
11. Marra, P.P., Hobson, K.A. & Holmes, R.T. (1998). Linking winter and summer events in a migratory bird by using stable-carbon isotopes. Science, 282, 1884-1886.
12. Mason, C.F. (1995). Long-term trends in the arrival dates of spring migrants. Bird Study, 42, 182-189.
13. Merilä, J. (1997). Fat reserves and moult-migrarion overlap in goldcrests, Regulus regulus - a trade-off? Ann. Zool. Fenn., 34, 229-234.
14. Peach, W., Baillie, S. & Underhill, L. (1991). Survival of British Sedge Warblers Acrocephalus schoenobaenus in relation to West African rainfall. Ibis, 133, 300-305.
15. Perrins, C.M. (1970). The timing of birds' breeding seasons. Ibis, 112, 242-255.
16. Rubolini, D., Massi, A. & Spina, F. (2002). Replacement of body feathers is associated with low premigratory energy stores in a long-distance migratory bird, the barn swallow (Hirundo rustica). J. Zool., 258, 441-447.
17. Saino, N., Calza, S., Ninni, P. & Møller A.P. (1999). Barn swallows trade survival against offspring condition and immunocompetence. J. Anim. Ecol., 68, 999-1009.
18. Saino, N., Ambrosini, R., Martinelli, R. & Møller, A.P. (2002). Mate fidelity, senescence in breeding performance, and reproductive trade-offs in the barn swallow. J. Anim. Ecol., 71, 309-319.
19. Schmidt, H. & Karnieli, A. (2002). Analysis of the temporal and spatial vegetation patterns in a semi-arid environment observed by NOAA AVHRR imagery and spectral ground measurements. Int. J. Rem. Sens. 23, 3971-3990.
20. Sillett, T.S., Holmes, R.T. & Sherry, T.W. (2000). Impacts of a global climate cycle on population dynamics of a migratory songbird. Science, 288, 2040-2042.
21. Szép, T. (1995a). Relationship between West African rainfall and the survival of Central European Sand Martins Riparia riparia. Ibis, 137, 162-168.
22. Szép, T. (1995b). Survival rates of Hungarian sand martins and their relationship with Sahel rainfall. J. Appl. Stat., 22, 891-904.
23. Szép, T. & Møller, A.P. (in press). Using remote sensing data to identify migration and wintering areas, and to analyze effects of environmental conditions on migratory birds. In: Birds of Two Worlds: The Ecology and Evolution of Migratory Birds (eds Greenberg, R. & Marra, P.). Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimora.
24. Tryjanowski, P., Kuzniak, S. & Sparks, T. (2002). Earlier arrival of some farmland migrants in western Poland. Ibis, 144, 62-68.
25. Tucker, C.J., Dregne, H.E. & Newcomb, W.W. (1991). Expansion and contraction of the Sahara Desert between 1980 and 1990. Science, 253, 299-301.
26. Wallin, D.O., Elliott, C.C.H., Shugart, H.H., Tucker, C.J. & Wilhelmi, F. (1992). Satellite remote sensing of breeding habitat for an African weaver-bird. Landscape Ecol., 7, 87-99.