Social, not spatial, fidelity underlies between-year winter site fidelity in a migratory bird
Social, not spatial, fidelity underlies between-year winter site fidelity in a migratory bird
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候鸟年间冬季地点保真度的基础是社会保真度,而不是空间保真度
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10.1073/pnas.2311577120
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发表时间:
2023
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Cohen, Emily B.
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DeSimone, Joely G.;Cohen, Emily B.
Site fidelity is one remarkable aspect of migration, with animals returning to the same general regions, or even specific territories, year after year. Site fidelity may be driven by site familiarity when an animal benefits from prior knowledge of the local landscape and resources. Site fidelity may also stem from long-term social relationships, with individuals repeatedly returning to the same location because of the social benefits of associating with familiar individuals, such as reduced aggression and increased feeding (1). Disentangling the relationship between spatial fidelity and social fidelity has been a long-standing chicken-and-egg dilemma in the field of animal social networks: Do two individuals associate incidentally because they are drawn to the same location or do two individuals share space because they are drawn to each other? Additionally, much of what we know about spatial and social fidelity comes from mated pairs in the breeding range; mechanisms of winter site fidelity are less well understood. In the current issue of PNAS, Madsen et al.(2) elegantly apply network modeling techniques to long-term resighting data from a wild population of goldencrowned sparrows to demonstrate that social fidelity underlies winter site fidelity in this migratory population. Madsen et al.(2) monitored a population of goldencrowned sparrows (Zonotrichia atricapilla) in a 6-ha arboretum in California over a 10-y period, during the winters of 2009 to 2019. Using color bands to identify and resight individual birds each winter, the researchers delineated each individual’s home range and changes in space use over time. Remarkably, after completing migrations of hundreds or thousands of kilometers, sparrows returned to the field site and occupied home ranges within tens of meters of the previous year. This scale of winter site fidelity has been observed before (eg, ref. 3), but the combination of fine-scale repeatability in home range locations between years and remarkable consistency of social relationships at this site (4) set the stage for a meaningful analysis of the effect of social relationships on site fidelity.The researchers leveraged the individual fidelity with natural demographic turnover (year-to-year changes in the population due to births, deaths, immigration, and emigration) to test the relationship between social and spatial fidelity. This approach is a unique strength of the study. Previous methods for disentangling social fidelity from spatial fidelity include statistical analytical tools that are unable to determine causality (5) or simulated and experimental manipulations that may not always recreate natural conditions (6). Instead, by quantifying the spatial effect of natural turnover in social partners, the researchers solved the “causal conundrum” between site fidelity and social fidelity under natural conditions.
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2003
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A. Quarterly
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A. Quarterly
影响因子:
2.4
作者:
D. Shizuka;Allison E. Johnson
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D. Shizuka;Allison E. Johnson
影响因子:
4.1
作者:
Shaw, Allison K.
通讯作者:
Shaw, Allison K.