干旱区生态环境知识资源中心(Arid): Small-scale land-use change effects on breeding success in a desert-living social bird

Arid

DOI	10.1093/beheco/arae023
	Small-scale land-use change effects on breeding success in a desert-living social bird
	Oswald, Krista N.; Berger-Tal, Oded; Roll, Uri
通讯作者	Oswald, KN
来源期刊	BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY
ISSN	1045-2249
EISSN	1465-7279
出版年	2024
卷号	35 期号:3
英文摘要	Human villages in deserts can provide resources in an otherwise stark environment, potentially buffering against extreme environmental conditions. It is thus expected that breeding within these villages would result in higher fitness. However, choosing to raise offspring in these resource-rich environments may have unintended negative consequences. Here, we studied the breeding success of a cooperative breeding bird nesting in habitats with different levels of human disturbance-the Arabian babbler (Argya squamiceps), in the Negev desert of Israel. We recorded 42 breeding attempts from 15 groups between March and July 2022. We examined overall breeding success, brood size, and causes of nest failure. When nestlings were 6 days old, we also calculated daily change in body mass and adult provisioning rate. We found that despite higher resource abundance in villages, proximity to villages did not affect provisioning rate, and nestlings gained less mass at higher temperatures for all nests. Currently, there is no evidence that human villages are providing oases of resources for nesting babblers. Further, various conservation interventions (e.g., encouraging residents to keep cats indoors) could improve babblers' overall fitness. Ultimately, we highlight how, for some desert specialists, additional resources provided by humans may not do enough to counter potential negative effects. For desert specialists, urban expansion of settlements and agriculture in their desert habitat initially may seem to provide an oasis of resources in an otherwise stark environment, but looks can be deceiving. Using direct observations of nests in a mosaic of habitat types, we show that nesting in villages provides no benefits to breeding success in a cooperative desert-specialist bird, despite the apparent increase in available resources.
英文关键词	ecological trap human-modified habitat nest success predation provisioning rate urban ecology
类型	Article
语种	英语
收录类别	SCI-E
WOS记录号	WOS:001199643900001
WOS关键词	CLIMATE-CHANGE ; POPULATION-DYNAMICS ; GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION ; HIGH-TEMPERATURES ; DOMESTIC CATS ; IMPACTS ; BIODIVERSITY ; CONSERVATION ; PREDATION ; INFERENCE
WOS类目	Behavioral Sciences ; Biology ; Ecology ; Zoology
WOS研究方向	Behavioral Sciences ; Life Sciences & Biomedicine - Other Topics ; Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Zoology
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/403004
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Oswald, Krista N.,Berger-Tal, Oded,Roll, Uri. Small-scale land-use change effects on breeding success in a desert-living social bird[J],2024,35(3).
APA	Oswald, Krista N.,Berger-Tal, Oded,&Roll, Uri.(2024).Small-scale land-use change effects on breeding success in a desert-living social bird.BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY,35(3).
MLA	Oswald, Krista N.,et al."Small-scale land-use change effects on breeding success in a desert-living social bird".BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY 35.3(2024).