Genetic and environmental influences on fitness-related traits in an endangered shorebird population

Biological Conservation

Volumn 177, Issue , 2014, Pages 26-34

  Saunders, Sarah P ^a   Cuthbert, Francesca J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal model; Breeding time; Heritability; Mass; Natal dispersal; Piping plover

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; CONSERVATION GENETICS; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FITNESS; GENETIC VARIATION; HERITABILITY; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; NATAL DISPERSAL; SEABIRD;

EID: 84903728944     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2014.06.005     Document Type: Article

References (81)

1. Amirault D.L., Kierstead J., MacDonald P., MacDonnell L. Sequential polyandry in piping plover, Charadrius melodus, nesting in eastern Canada. Can. Field Nat. 2004, 118:444-446.
2. Angel J.R., Kunkel K.E. The response of Great Lakes water levels to future climate scenarios with an emphasis on Lake Michigan-Huron. J. Great Lakes Res. 2010, 36:51-58.
3. Brudney L.J., Arnold T.W., Saunders S.P., Cuthbert F.J. Survival of Piping Plover (Charadrius melodus) chicks in the Great Lakes region. Auk 2013, 130:150-160.
4. Cairns W.E. Biology and behavior of breeding Piping Plovers. Wilson Bull. 1982, 94:531-545.
5. Catlin D.H., Felio J.H., Fraser J.D. Comparison of piping plover foraging habitat on artificial and natural sandbars on the Missouri River. Prairie Nat. 2012, 44:3-9.
6. Catlin D.H., Felio J.H., Fraser J.D. Effects of water discharge on fledging times, growth, and survival of piping plovers on the Missouri River. J. Wildlife Manage. 2013, 77:525-533.
7. Charmantier A., Buoro M., Gimenez O., Weimerskirch H. Heritability of short-scale natal dispersal in a large-scale foraging bird, the wandering albatross. J. Evol. Biol. 2011, 24:1487-1496.
8. Charmantier A., Gienapp P. Climate change and timing of avian breeding and migration: evolutionary versus plastic changes. Evol. Appl. 2014, 7:15-28.
9. Chevin L.M., Lande R., Mace G.M. Adaptation, plasticity, and extinction in a changing environment: towards a predictive theory. PLoS Biol. 2010, 8:e1000357.
10. Clobert J., Danchin E., Dhondt A.A., Nichols J.D. Dispersal 2001, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
11. Coltman D.W., O'Donoghue P., Jorgenson J.T., Hogg J.T., Strobeck C., Festa-Bianchet M. Undesirable evolutionary consequences of trophy hunting. Nature 2003, 426:655-658.
12. Colwell M.A. Shorebird Ecology, Conservation, and Management 2010, University of California Press, Berkeley.
13. de Villemereuil, P., 2012. Estimation of a Biological Trait Heritability Using the Animal Model. Tutorial. <>. http://devillemereuil.legtux.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/tuto_en.pdf.
14. Doligez B., Daniel G., Warin P., Pärt T., Gustafsson L., Réale D. Estimation and comparison of heritability and parent-offspring resemblance in dispersal probability from capture-recapture data using different methods: the collared flycatcher as a case study. J. Ornithol. 2012, 152:539-554.
15. Falconer D.S., Mackay T.F., Frankham R. Introduction to Quantitative Genetics 1996, Prentice Hall, London. fourth ed.
16. Festa-Bianchet M., Gaillard J.-M., Jorgenson J.T. Mass- and density-dependent reproductive success and reproductive costs in a capital breeder. Am. Nat. 1998, 152:367-379.
17. Gienapp P., Merilä J. Sex-specific fitness consequences of dispersal in Siberian jays. Behav. Ecol. Soc. Biol. 2010, 65:131-140.
18. Gienapp P., Teplitsky C., Alho J., Mills J., Merilä J. Climate change and evolution: disentangling environmental and genetic responses. Mol. Ecol. 2008, 17:167-178.
19. Gratto-Trevor C., Abbott S. Conservation of Piping Plover (Charadrius melodus) in North America: science, successes, and challenges. Can. J. Zool. 2011, 89:401-418.
20. Gratto-Trevor C., Aimirault-Langlais D., Catlin D., Cuthbert F., Fraser J., Maddock S., Roche E., Shaffer F. Connectivity in piping plovers: do breeding populations have distinct wintering distributions?. J. Wildlife Manage. 2012, 76:348-355.
21. Greenwood P.J., Harvey P.H. The natal and breeding dispersal of birds. Annu. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 1982, 13:1-21.
22. Guyn K.L., Clark R.G. Factors affecting survival of northern pintail ducklings in Alberta. Condor 1999, 101:369-377.
23. Hadfield J. MCMC Methods for multi-response generalized linear mixed models: the MCMCglmm R package. J. Stat. Softw. 2010, 33:1-22.
24. Haig S.M., Oring L.W. Mate, site, and territory fidelity in piping plovers. Auk 1988, 105:268-277.
25. Hansson B., Bensch S., Hasselquist D. Heritability of dispersal in the great reed warbler. Ecol. Lett. 2003, 6:290-294.
26. Haramis G.M., Nichols J.D., Pollock K.H., Hines J.E. The relationship between body mass and survival of wintering canvasbacks. Auk 1986, 103:506-514.
27. Harris M., Buckland S., Russell S., Wanless S. Post fledging survival to breeding age of Shags Phalacrocorax aristotelis in relation to year, date of fledging and brood size. J. Avian Biol. 1994, 25:268-274.
28. Houle D. Comparing evolvability and variability of quantitative traits. Genetics 1992, 130:195-204.
29. Husby A., Gustafsson L., Qvarnström A. Low genetic variance in the duration of the incubation period in a Collared Flycatcher (Ficedula albicollis) population. Am. Nat. 2012, 179:132-136.
30. Kovach-Orr C., Fussmann G.F. Evolutionary and plastic rescue in multitrophic model communities. Philos. Trans. Roy. Soc. B 2013, 368:20120084.
31. Kruuk L., Hadfield J. How to separate genetic and environmental causes of similarity between relatives. J. Evol. Biol. 2007, 20:1890-1903.
32. Kruuk L.E. Estimating genetic parameters in natural populations using the "animal model". Proc. Roy. Soc. B 2004, 359:873-890.
33. Küpper C., Kis J., Kostolányi A., Székely T., Cuthill I.C., Blomqvist D. Genetic mating system and timing of extra-pair fertilizations in the Kentish plover. Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 2004, 57:32-39.
34. Lande R., Shannon S. The role of genetic variation in adaptation and population persistence in a changing environment. Evolution 1996, 50:434-437.
35. Lane J., Kruuk L., Charmantier A., Murie J., Coltman D., Buoro M., Raveh S., Dobson F. A quantitative genetic analysis of hibernation emergence date in a wild population of Columbian ground squirrels. J. Evol. Biol. 2011, 24:1949-1959.
36. Lank D.B., Ydenberg R.C. Death and danger at migratory stopovers: problems with "predation risk". J. Avian Biol. 2003, 34:225-228.
37. Law R., Stokes K. Evolutionary impacts of fishing on target populations. Marine Conservation Biology: The Science of Maintaining the Sea's Biodiversity 2005, 232-246. Island Press, Washington, DC.
38. LeDee O.E., Arnold T.W., Roche E.A., Cuthbert F.J. Use of breeding and nonbreeding encounters to estimate survival and breeding-site fidelity of the piping plover at the Great Lakes. Condor 2010, 112:637-643.
39. LeFer D., Fraser J., Kruse C. Piping plover chick foraging, growth and survival in the Great Plains. J. Wildlife Manage. 2008, 72:682-687.
40. Lincoln F. Manual for Bird Banders 1947, US Fish and Wildlife Service, Washington, DC.
41. Massot M., Clobert J. Processes at the origin of similarities in dispersal behaviour among siblings. J. Evol. Biol. 2000, 13:707-719.
42. Melvin S.M., MacIvor L.H., Griffin C.R. Predator exclosures: a technique to reduce predation at piping plover nests. Wildlife Soc. B 1992, 20:143-148.
43. Merilä J. Genetic variation in offspring condition: an experiment. Funct. Ecol. 1996, 10:465-474.
44. Merilä J., Kruuk L., Sheldon B. Natural selection on the genetical component of variance in body condition in a wild bird population. J. Evol. Biol. 2001, 14:918-929.
45. Merilä J., Przybylo R., Sheldon B. Genetic variation and natural selection on blue tit body condition in different environments. Genet. Res. 1999, 73:165-176.
46. Merilä J., Sheldon B.C. Avian Quantitative Genetics. Current Ornithology 2001, Springer, New York, pp. 179-255.
47. Morrissey M.B., Wilson A.J. Pedantics, an R package for pedigree-based genetic simulation and pedigree manipulation, characterization and viewing. Mol. Ecol. Resou. 2010, 10:711-719.
48. Morrissey M., Wilson A., Pemberton J., Ferguson M. A framework for power and sensitivity analyses for quantitative genetic studies of natural populations, and case studies in Soay sheep (Ovis aries). J. Evol. Biol. 2007, 20:2309-2321.
49. Nisbet I.C.T. Courtship feeding, egg size and breeding success in common terns. Nature 1973, 241:141-142.
50. Noordwijk A.J., Van Balen J.H., Scharloo W. Heritability of body size in a natural population of the great tit (Parus major) and its relation to age and environmental condition during growth. Genet. Res. 1988, 51:149-162.
51. Nussey D.H., Wilson A.J., Brommer J.E. Selection on heritable phenotypic plasticity in a wild bird population. Science 2005, 310:304-306.
52. O'Hara R., Cano J., Ovaskainen O., Teplitsky C., Alho J. Bayesian approaches in evolutionary quantitative genetics. J. Evol. Biol. 2008, 21:949-957.
53. Pasinelli G., Schiegg K., Walters J.R. Genetic and environmental influences on natal dispersal distance in a resident bird species. Am. Nat. 2004, 164:660-669.
54. Postma E., Charmantier A. What 'animal models' can and cannot tell ornithologists about the genetics of wild populations. J. Ornithol. 2007, 148:633-642.
55. Postma E., Heinrich F., Koller U., Sardell R.J., Reid J.M., Arcese P., Keller L.F. Disentangling the effect of genes, the environment and chance on sex ratio variation in a wild bird population. Proc. Roy. Soc. B 2011, 278:2996-3002.
56. Pulido F., Berthold P., Mohr G., Querner U. Heritability of the timing of autumn migration in a natural bird population. Proc. Roy. Soc. B 2001, 268:953-959.
57. Reed T.E., Jenouvrier S., Visser M.E. Phenological mismatch strongly affects individual fitness but not population demography in a woodland passerine. J. Anim. Ecol. 2013, 82:131-144.
58. Rioux S., Amirault-Langlais D.L., Shaffer F. Piping plovers make decisions regarding dispersal based on personal and public information in a variable coastal ecosystem. J. Field Ornithol. 2011, 82:32-43.
59. Roche E.A., Arnold T.W., Stucker J.H., Cuthbert F.J. Colored plastic and metal leg bands do not affect survival of Piping Plover chicks. J. Field Ornithol. 2010, 81:317-324.
60. Rummukainen M. Changes in climate and weather extremes in the 21st century.WIREs. Clim. Change 2012, 3:115-129.
61. Saunders S.P., Arnold T.W., Roche E.A., Cuthbert F.J. Age-specific survival and recruitment of piping plovers (Charadrius melodus) in the Great Lakes region. J. Avian Biol. 2014, 45. 10.1111/jav.00319.
62. Saunders S.P., Roche E.A., Arnold T.W., Cuthbert F.J. Female site familiarity increases fledging success in Piping Plovers (Charadrius melodus). Auk 2012, 129:329-337.
63. Schekkerman H., Visser G.H. Prefledging energy requirements in shorebirds: energetic implications of self-feeding precocial development. Auk 2001, 118:944-957.
64. Schulte-Hostedde A.I., Zinner B., Millar J.S., Hickling G.J. Restitution of mass-size residuals: validating body condition indices. Ecology 2005, 86:155-163.
65. Shaw R. Maximum-likelihood approaches applied to quantitative genetics of natural populations. Evolution 1987, 41:812-826.
66. Serbezov D., Bernatchez L., Olsen E.M., Vøllestad L.A. Quantitative genetic parameters for wild stream-living brown trout: heritability and parental effects. J. Evol. Biol. 2010, 23:1631-1641.
67. Spiegelhalter D.J., Best N.G., Carlin B.P., Van Der Linde A. Bayesian measures of model complexity and fit. J. Roy. Stat. Soc. B 2002, 64:583-639.
68. Stenzel L.E., Page G.W., Warriner J.C., Warriner J.S., George D.E., Eyster C.R., Ramer B.A., Neuman K.K. Survival and natal dispersal of juvenile snowy plovers (Charadrius alexandrinus) in central coastal California. Auk 2007, 124:1023-1036.
69. Stockwell C.A., Hendry A.P., Kinnison M.T. Contemporary evolution meets conservation biology. Trends Ecol. Evol. 2003, 18:94-101.
70. Storfer A. Quantitative genetics: a promising approach for the assessment of genetic variation in endangered species. Trends Ecol. Evol. 1996, 11:343-348.
71. Stucker J.H., Cuthbert F.J., Winn B., Noel B.L., Maddock S.B., Leary P.R., Cordes J., Wemmer L.C. Distribution of non-breeding Great Lakes piping plovers (Charadrius melodus) along Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico coastlines: ten years of band sightings. Waterbirds 2010, 33:22-32.
72. Teplitsky C., Mills J.A., Merilä J. Indirect genetic effects in a sex-limited trait: the case of breeding time in red-billed gulls. J. Evol. Biol. 2010, 23:935-944.
73. Teplitsky C., Mouawad N., Balbontin J., De Lope F., Møller A. Quantitative genetics of migration syndromes: a study of two barn swallow populations. J. Evol. Biol. 2011, 24:2025-2039.
74. Thessing A., Ekman J. Selection on the genetical and environmental components of tarsal growth in juvenile willow tits (Parus montanus). J. Evol. Biol. 1994, 7:713-726.
75. Traylor J., Alisauskas R. Effects of intrinsic and extrinsic factors on survival of white-winged scoter (Melanitta fusca deglandi) ducklings. Auk 2006, 123:67-81.
76. US Fish and Wildlife Service Determination of endangered and threatened status for the Piping Plover. Fed. Reg. 1985, 50:50720-50734.
77. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 2003. Recovery plan for the Great Lakes Piping Plover. Fort Snelling, Minnesota.
78. Väisänen R.A., Hildén O., Soikkeli M., Vuolanto S. Egg dimension variation in five wader species: the role of heredity. Ornis Fennica 1972, 49:25-44.
79. Vedder O., Bouwhuis S., Sheldon B.C. Quantitative assessment of the importance of phenotypic plasticity in adaptation to climate change in wild bird populations. PLoS Biol. 2013, 11:e1001605.
80. Visser M.E. Keeping up with a warming world; assessing the rate of adaptation to climate change. Proc. Roy. Soc. B 2008, 275:649-659.
81. Wilson A.J., Reale D., Clements M.N., Morrissey M.M., Postma E., Walling C.A., Kruuk L.E., Nussey D.H. An ecologist's guide to the animal model. J. Anim. Ecol. 2010, 79:13-26.