Predictable food supplies induce plastic shifts in avian scaled body mass
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- Noraine Salleh Hudin (UGent) , Diederik Strubbe (UGent) , Aimeric Teyssier, Liesbeth De Neve (UGent) , Joel White, Geert Janssens (UGent) and Luc Lens (UGent)
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- Urbanization constitutes one of the most profound forms of land-use change and strongly affects global biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. Expansion of urban areas typically leads to species loss but may also induce more subtle changes in species dynamics through selection or plasticity. Using a dual correlative (field) and experimental (aviary) approach, we here show that free-ranging urban house sparrows in southern France were smaller and lighter than their rural counterparts after allometric scaling, whereas 2 independent indices of nutritional (feather growth rates) and developmental (feather asymmetry) stress did not vary with urbanization. When subjecting these individuals to urban or rural diets in a highly predictable, controlled setting, rural but not urban sparrows decreased their body mass, independent of diet type, to the extent that initial scaled mass differences between urban and rural birds disappeared by the end of the captive period. By integrating field-and aviary measurements of body size and mass with indices of nutritional and developmental stress, we conclude that the lower scaled body masses of urban birds likely reflect a plastic response to predictable food supplies, possibly mediated through predation. Urban environments therefore do not necessarily constitute nutritionally stressful environments for species that typically cohabit with humans, such as house sparrows.
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- SPARROWS PASSER-DOMESTICUS, PERCEIVED PREDATION RISK, JAYS, APHELOCOMA-COERULESCENS, FLUCTUATING ASYMMETRY, HOUSE SPARROWS, NUTRITIONAL CONDITION, REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS, URBAN ENVIRONMENTS, FORAGING BEHAVIOR, PARUS-MAJOR, body condition, nutrition, passerines, phenotypic plasticity, scaled, mass index (SMI)
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-8517922
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- Salleh Hudin, Noraine, et al. “Predictable Food Supplies Induce Plastic Shifts in Avian Scaled Body Mass.” BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY, vol. 27, no. 6, 2016, pp. 1833–40, doi:10.1093/beheco/arw108.
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- Salleh Hudin, N., Strubbe, D., Teyssier, A., De Neve, L., White, J., Janssens, G., & Lens, L. (2016). Predictable food supplies induce plastic shifts in avian scaled body mass. BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY, 27(6), 1833–1840. https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arw108
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- Salleh Hudin, Noraine, Diederik Strubbe, Aimeric Teyssier, Liesbeth De Neve, Joel White, Geert Janssens, and Luc Lens. 2016. “Predictable Food Supplies Induce Plastic Shifts in Avian Scaled Body Mass.” BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY 27 (6): 1833–40. https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arw108.
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- Salleh Hudin, Noraine, Diederik Strubbe, Aimeric Teyssier, Liesbeth De Neve, Joel White, Geert Janssens, and Luc Lens. 2016. “Predictable Food Supplies Induce Plastic Shifts in Avian Scaled Body Mass.” BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY 27 (6): 1833–1840. doi:10.1093/beheco/arw108.
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- 1.Salleh Hudin N, Strubbe D, Teyssier A, De Neve L, White J, Janssens G, et al. Predictable food supplies induce plastic shifts in avian scaled body mass. BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY. 2016;27(6):1833–40.
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- [1]N. Salleh Hudin et al., “Predictable food supplies induce plastic shifts in avian scaled body mass,” BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY, vol. 27, no. 6, pp. 1833–1840, 2016.
@article{8517922,
abstract = {{Urbanization constitutes one of the most profound forms of land-use change and strongly affects global biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. Expansion of urban areas typically leads to species loss but may also induce more subtle changes in species dynamics through selection or plasticity. Using a dual correlative (field) and experimental (aviary) approach, we here show that free-ranging urban house sparrows in southern France were smaller and lighter than their rural counterparts after allometric scaling, whereas 2 independent indices of nutritional (feather growth rates) and developmental (feather asymmetry) stress did not vary with urbanization. When subjecting these individuals to urban or rural diets in a highly predictable, controlled setting, rural but not urban sparrows decreased their body mass, independent of diet type, to the extent that initial scaled mass differences between urban and rural birds disappeared by the end of the captive period. By integrating field-and aviary measurements of body size and mass with indices of nutritional and developmental stress, we conclude that the lower scaled body masses of urban birds likely reflect a plastic response to predictable food supplies, possibly mediated through predation. Urban environments therefore do not necessarily constitute nutritionally stressful environments for species that typically cohabit with humans, such as house sparrows.}},
author = {{Salleh Hudin, Noraine and Strubbe, Diederik and Teyssier, Aimeric and De Neve, Liesbeth and White, Joel and Janssens, Geert and Lens, Luc}},
issn = {{1045-2249}},
journal = {{BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY}},
keywords = {{SPARROWS PASSER-DOMESTICUS,PERCEIVED PREDATION RISK,JAYS,APHELOCOMA-COERULESCENS,FLUCTUATING ASYMMETRY,HOUSE SPARROWS,NUTRITIONAL CONDITION,REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS,URBAN ENVIRONMENTS,FORAGING BEHAVIOR,PARUS-MAJOR,body condition,nutrition,passerines,phenotypic plasticity,scaled,mass index (SMI)}},
language = {{eng}},
number = {{6}},
pages = {{1833--1840}},
title = {{Predictable food supplies induce plastic shifts in avian scaled body mass}},
url = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arw108}},
volume = {{27}},
year = {{2016}},
}
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