Trends in trappability and stop-over duration can confound interpretations of population trajectories from long-term migration ringing studies

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作者
Hochachka, Wesley M. [1 ]
Fiedler, Wolfgang [2 ]
机构
[1] Cornell Univ, Ornithol Lab, Ithaca, NY 14850 USA
[2] Max Planck Inst Ornithol, D-78315 Radolfzell am Bodensee, Germany
关键词
inter-annual variation; migration; stopover; retrapping probability;
D O I
10.1007/s10336-008-0282-1
中图分类号
Q95 [动物学];
学科分类号
071002 ;
摘要
We examined ringing data for three common passerines at a migration monitoring site with the objective of determining how closely the numbers of birds captured reflected the actual numbers of birds passing through this site. Mark-recapture analyses were used, fitting smooth inter-annual changes in re-trapping probability and apparent survival (continued presence within the study area). For all three species we found systematic declines in re-trapping probability over the roughly three decades of our study; one species showed systematic increases in daily apparent survival over this same time period. Within individual years, daily variation in wind and rainfall were found to affect re-trapping probability and apparent survival. The result of all of these effects was that long-term trends in the numbers of unique individual birds captured systematically over-estimated the declines for all three species, providing clear indication that the biological interpretation of these raw capture totals from ringing stations will not necessarily reflect actual changes in the abundance of species passing through these sites.
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页码:375 / 391
页数:17
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