Reassessing the Determinants of Breeding Synchrony in Ungulates

English, Annie K.; Chauvenet, Aliénor L. M.; Safi, Kamran; Pettorelli, Nathalie

Reassessing the Determinants of Breeding Synchrony in Ungulates

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2012

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English, Annie K.

Chauvenet, Aliénor L. M.

Safi, Kamran

Pettorelli, Nathalie

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Open Access Gold

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Biologie

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PLoS ONE. 2012, 7(7), e41444. eISSN 1932-6203. Available under: doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0041444

Zusammenfassung

Predicting the consequences of climate change is a major challenge in ecology and wildlife management. While the impact of changes in climatic conditions on distribution ranges has been documented for many organisms, the consequences of changes in resource dynamics for species' overall performance have seldom been investigated. This study addresses this gap by identifying the factors shaping the reproductive synchrony of ungulates. In temporally-variable environments, reproductive phenology of individuals is a key determinant of fitness, with the timing of reproduction affecting their reproductive output and future performance. We used a satellite-based index of resource availability to explore how the level of seasonality and inter-annual variability in resource dynamics affect birth season length of ungulate populations. Contrary to what was previously thought, we found that both the degree of seasonal fluctuation in resource dynamics and inter-annual changes in resource availability influence the degree of birth synchrony within wild ungulate populations. Our results highlight how conclusions from previous interspecific analyses, which did not consider the existence of shared life-history among species, should be treated with caution. They also support the existence of a multi-faceted link between temporal variation in resource availability and breeding synchrony in terrestrial mammals, and increase our understanding of the mechanisms shaping reproductive synchrony in large herbivores, thus enhancing our ability to predict the potential impacts of climate change on biodiversity.

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570 Biowissenschaften, Biologie

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ENGLISH, Annie K., Aliénor L. M. CHAUVENET, Kamran SAFI, Nathalie PETTORELLI, 2012. Reassessing the Determinants of Breeding Synchrony in Ungulates. In: PLoS ONE. 2012, 7(7), e41444. eISSN 1932-6203. Available under: doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0041444

BibTex

@article{English2012Reass-25710,
  year={2012},
  doi={10.1371/journal.pone.0041444},
  title={Reassessing the Determinants of Breeding Synchrony in Ungulates},
  number={7},
  volume={7},
  journal={PLoS ONE},
  author={English, Annie K. and Chauvenet, Aliénor L. M. and Safi, Kamran and Pettorelli, Nathalie},
  note={Article Number: e41444}
}

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