Density-dependent regulation of population size in colonial breeders: Allee and buffer effects in the migratory Montagu's harrier

Oecologia

Volumn 149, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 543-552

  Soutullo, Alvaro ^a   Limiñana, Rubén ^a   Urios, Vicente ^a   Surroca, Martín ^b   Gill, Jennifer A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

^b Generalitat Valenciana   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Allee effect; Buffer effect; Density dependence; Ideal despotic distribution; Ideal free distribution

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ALLEE EFFECT; COLONIAL BREEDING; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; HABITAT AVAILABILITY; HABITAT QUALITY; MIGRATORY SPECIES; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION SIZE; RAPTOR; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SETTLING BEHAVIOR; SPATIAL VARIATION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BREEDING; CLUTCH SIZE; ENVIRONMENT; FERTILITY; GEOGRAPHY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HAWK; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION MIGRATION; SPAIN;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BREEDING; CLUTCH SIZE; ENVIRONMENT; FERTILITY; GEOGRAPHY; HAWKS; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION GROWTH; SPAIN; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

CIRCUS; CIRCUS PYGARGUS;

EID: 33748141092     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-006-0465-5     Document Type: Article

References (50)

1. Allee WC, Emerson AE, Park O, Park T, Schmidt KP (1949) Principles of animal ecology. Saunders, Philadelphia
2. Arcá G, Sammuri G (1983) Biologia riproduttiva e status dell'albanella minore nella Maremma Tosco-Laziale. Dati preliminary. IIth Convego Italiano di Ornitologia, Parma pp 7-9
3. Arroyo BE (1995) Breeding ecology and nest dispersion of Montagu's Harrier Circus pygargus in Central Spain. PhD thesis, University of Oxford, Oxford
4. Arroyo B (1996) A possible case of polyandry in Montagu's Harrier. J Raptor Res 30:100-102
5. Arroyo BE (1997) Diet of Montagu's Harrier Circus pygargus in central Spain: analysis of temporal and geographical variation. Ibis 139:664-672
6. Arroyo B, Mougeot F, Bretagnolle V (2001) Colonial breeding and nest defence in Montagu's Harrier (Circus pygargus). Behav Ecol Sociobiol 50:109-115
7. Arroyo BE, García JT, Bretagnolle V (2002) Conservation of the Montagu's Harrier (Circus pygargus) in agricultural areas. Anim Conserv 5:283-290
8. Arroyo BE, Garcia JT, Bretagnolle V (2004) Montagu's Harrier. BWP Update 6:41-55
9. Bort-Cubero JV (2004) La colonización del aguilucho cenizo (Circus pygargus) en el interior de la provincia de Castellon (1980-2004). VIII Reunión del Grupo Ibérico de Aguiluchos, Madrid. Available at: http://www.cocn.tarifainfo.com/ria04/ponencias/ppjbort/ponen.html
10. Brown JL (1969) Buffer effect and productivity in tit populations. Am Nat 103:347-354
11. Camus PA, Lima M (2002) Populations, metapopulations, and the open-closed dilemma: the conflict between operational and natural population concepts. Oikos 97:433-438
12. Castaño JP (1997) Fenología de puesta y parámetros reproductivos en una población de aguilucho cenizo (Circus pygargus) en el Campo de Montiel. Ardeola 44:51-59
13. Clarke R (1996) Montagu's Harrier. Arlequin, Chelmsford
14. Corbacho C, Muñoz A, Bartolomé P (1995) Espectro trófico del Aguilucho cenizo Circus pygargus en Extremadura. Alytes 7:441-448
15. Corbacho C, Sánchez JM, Sánchez A (1997) Breeding biology of Montagu's Harrier Circus pygargus L. in agricultural environments of southwest Spain; comparison with other populations in the western Paleartic. Bird Study 44:166-175
16. Cramp S, Simmons KEL (eds) (1980) The birds of the western Palaearctic, vol 2. Oxford University Press, Oxford
17. Fernández C, Azkona P, Donázar JA (1998) Density-dependent effects on productivity in the griffon vulture Gyps fulvus: the role of interference and habitat heterogeneity. Ibis 140:64-69
18. Ferrer M, Donázar JA (1996) Density-dependent fecundity by habitat heterogeneity in an increasing population of Spanish imperial eagles. Ecology 77:69-74
19. Ferrero JJ (1995) La población ibérica de Aguilucho cenizo (Circus pygargus). Alytes 7:539-560
20. García JT, Arroyo B (2003) Aguilucho cenizo, Circus pygargus. In: Martí R, Del Moral JC (eds) Atlas de las Aves Reproductoras de España. Dirección General de Conservación de la Naturaleza - Sociedad Española de Ornitología, Madrid pp 178-179
21. Gill JA, Norris K, Potts PM, Gunnarsson TG, Atkinson PW, Sutherland WJ (2001) The buffer effect and large-scale population regulation in migratory birds. Nature 412:436-438
22. Guixé D (2002) Resultats de la caracterizació i radio-seguiment de la colònia d'esparver cendrós (Circus pygargus) d'Anglesola (Lleida). Informe para la Generalitat de Catalunya
23. Gunnarsson TG, Gill JA, Petersen A, Appleton GF, Sutherland WJ (2005) A double buffer effect in a migratory shorebird population. J Anim Ecol 74:965-971
24. Halama KJ, Dueser RD (1994) Of mice and habitats: tests for density-dependent habitat selection. Oikos 69:107-114
25. Hawkins BA, Berryman AA (2000) Site-dependent regulation of population size: comment. Ecology 81:1166-1168
26. Hiraldo F, Fernández F, Amores F (1975) Diet of the Montagu's Harrier (Circus pygargus) in southwestern Spain. Doñana Acta Vertebrata 2:25-55
27. Kokko H, Harris MP, Wanless S (2004) Competition for breeding sites and site-dependent population regulation in a highly colonial seabird, the common guillemot Uria aalge. J Anim Ecol 73:367-376
28. Koks B, van Scharenburg K, Visser EG (2001) Grauwe Kiekendieven Circus pygargus in Nederland: balanceren tussen hoop en vrees. Limosa 74:121-136
29. Krebs JR (1970) Regulation of numbers in the Great Tit (Aves: Passeriformes). J Zool 162:317-333
30. Krüger O, Lindström J (2001) Habitat heterogeneity affects population growth in goshawk Accipiter gentilis. J Anim Ecol 70:173-181
31. Limiñana R (2004) Biología reproductiva del aguilucho cenizo (Circus pygargus) en el interior de la provincia de Castellon. M.Sc. Dissertation. Universidad de Alicante, Alicante
32. Limiñana R, Surroca M, Miralles S, Urios V, Jiménez J (2006) Twenty three-year population trend and breeding biology of Montagu's Harrier Circus pygargus in a natural vegetation site in Northeast Spain. Bird Study (in press)
33. Murdoch WW (1994) Population regulation in theory and practice. Ecology 75:271-287
34. Newton I (1998) Population limitation in birds. Academic, San Diego
35. Pandolfi M, Giacchini P (1991) Distribuzione e successo riproduttivo di albanella minore, Circus pygargus, nelle Marche. Riv Ital Ornitol 61:25-32
36. Pandolfi M, Pino d'Astore PR (1992) Aggressive behaviour in Montagu's Harrier (Circus pygargus) during the breeding season. Boll Zool 59:57-61
37. Pomarol M, Bonfil J (2001) L'esparver cendrós a Catalunya. Bioma 6:32-33
38. Rodenhouse NL, Sherry TW, Holmes RT (1997) Site-dependent regulation of population size: a new synthesis. Ecology 78:2025-2042
39. Rosenzweig ML (1991) Habitat selection and population interactions: the search for mechanism. Am Nat 137:S5-S28
40. Sánchez JA, Calvo JF (1998) Importance of birds and potential bias in food habit studies of Montagu's Harriers (Circus pygargus) in Southeastern Spain. J Raptor Res 32:254-256
41. Schipper WJA (1973) A comparison of prey selection in sympatric harriers (Circus) in Western Europe. Gerfaut 63:17-120
42. Sergio F, Newton I (2003) Occupancy as a measure of territory quality. J Anim Ecol 72:857-865
43. Serrano D, Oro D, Ursúa E, Tella JL (2005) Colony size selection determines adult survival and dispersal preferences: Allee effects in a colonial bird. Am Nat 166:E22-E31
44. Stephens PA, Sutherland WJ (1999) Consequences of the Allee effect for behaviour, ecology and conservation. Trends Ecol Evol 14:401-405
45. Studinka L (1941) The habits and plumages of Montagu's Harrier. Aquila 46-49:247-268
46. Sutherland WJ (1996) From individual behaviour to population ecology. Oxford University Press, Oxford
47. Sutherland WJ, Norris K (2002) Behavioural models of population growth rates: implications for conservation and prediction. Philos Trans R Soc B 357:1273-1284
48. Underhill-Day JC (1990) The status and breeding biology of Marsh Harrier Circus aeruginosus and Montagu's Harrier Circus pygargus in Britain since 1900. PhD thesis, National Council for Academic Awards
49. Viñuela J (1993) Variación en la fecha de puesta de una población de Milano Negro Milvus migrans. Efecto de la experiencia de los reproductores. Ardeola 40:55-63
50. Wiklund CG, Andersson M (1994) Natural selection of colony size in a passerine bird. J Anim Ecol 63:765-774