Beak morphology predicts apparent survival of crossbills: due to selective survival or selective dispersal?

Dozens of morphologically differentiated populations, subspecies and species of crossbills (genus Loxia) exist. It has been suggested that this divergence is due to variation in the conifer cones that each population specialises upon, requiring a specific beak size to efficiently separate the cone s...

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Autores: Gómez-Blanco, David, Santoro, Simone, Borràs, Antoni, Cabrera, Josep, Senar, Juan Carlos, Edelaar, Pim
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Fecha de publicación:2019
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Passeriformes
Trencapinyes
Pirineus
Adaptació animal
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spelling Beak morphology predicts apparent survival of crossbills: due to selective survival or selective dispersal?Gómez-Blanco, DavidSantoro, SimoneBorràs, AntoniCabrera, JosepSenar, Juan CarlosEdelaar, PimOcellsPasseriformesTrencapinyesPirineusAdaptació animal59Dozens of morphologically differentiated populations, subspecies and species of crossbills (genus Loxia) exist. It has been suggested that this divergence is due to variation in the conifer cones that each population specialises upon, requiring a specific beak size to efficiently separate the cone scales. If so, apparent survival should depend on beak size. To test this hypothesis, we undertook multievent capture–recapture modelling for 6844 individuals monitored during 27 years in a Pyrenean common crossbill L. curvirostra population in a forest of mountain pine Pinus uncinata. Apparent survival was indeed related to beak width, resulting in stabilizing selection around an optimum that was close to the observed mean beak width, indicating that local crossbill beak morphology is adapted to the conifer they feed upon. Both natural selection (selective mortality) and selective emigration of maladapted individuals may explain our findings. As is often the case in capture–recapture analyses but rarely recognised, we could not formally decompose apparent survival into selective mortality versus selective permanent emigration. Nonetheless, there are several indications that selective permanent emigration should not be fully excluded. First, natural selection by itself would have to be unusually strong compared to other empirical estimates to create the observed pattern of apparent survival. Second, the observed mean beak width was a bit lower than the estimated optimum beak width. This can be explained by immigration of crossbills with smaller beaks originating from southern populations, which may subsequently have left the study area permanently in response to low food intake. This is in line with a detected transient effect in the data, yet apparently little influx from crossbills from northern Europe. When permanent emigration is phenotypically selective this will have ecological and evolutionary consequences, so this possibility deserves more attention in general.2019info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion31 p.application/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/2072/374207https://doi.org/10.1111/jav.02107RECERCAT (Dipòsit de la Recerca de Catalunya)reponame:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunyainstname:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)InglésJournal of avian biology, vol 50, issue 12 (Dec 2019)This is the peer reviewed version of the following article "Beak morphology predicts apparent survival of crossbills: due to selective survival or selective dispersal?", which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/jav.02107. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions. © 2019 Nordic Society Oikos. Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:recercat.cat:2072/3742072026-05-29T05:05:01Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Beak morphology predicts apparent survival of crossbills: due to selective survival or selective dispersal?
title Beak morphology predicts apparent survival of crossbills: due to selective survival or selective dispersal?
spellingShingle Beak morphology predicts apparent survival of crossbills: due to selective survival or selective dispersal?
Gómez-Blanco, David
Ocells
Passeriformes
Trencapinyes
Pirineus
Adaptació animal
59
title_short Beak morphology predicts apparent survival of crossbills: due to selective survival or selective dispersal?
title_full Beak morphology predicts apparent survival of crossbills: due to selective survival or selective dispersal?
title_fullStr Beak morphology predicts apparent survival of crossbills: due to selective survival or selective dispersal?
title_full_unstemmed Beak morphology predicts apparent survival of crossbills: due to selective survival or selective dispersal?
title_sort Beak morphology predicts apparent survival of crossbills: due to selective survival or selective dispersal?
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Gómez-Blanco, David
Santoro, Simone
Borràs, Antoni
Cabrera, Josep
Senar, Juan Carlos
Edelaar, Pim
author Gómez-Blanco, David
author_facet Gómez-Blanco, David
Santoro, Simone
Borràs, Antoni
Cabrera, Josep
Senar, Juan Carlos
Edelaar, Pim
author_role author
author2 Santoro, Simone
Borràs, Antoni
Cabrera, Josep
Senar, Juan Carlos
Edelaar, Pim
author2_role author
author
author
author
author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Ocells
Passeriformes
Trencapinyes
Pirineus
Adaptació animal
59
topic Ocells
Passeriformes
Trencapinyes
Pirineus
Adaptació animal
59
description Dozens of morphologically differentiated populations, subspecies and species of crossbills (genus Loxia) exist. It has been suggested that this divergence is due to variation in the conifer cones that each population specialises upon, requiring a specific beak size to efficiently separate the cone scales. If so, apparent survival should depend on beak size. To test this hypothesis, we undertook multievent capture–recapture modelling for 6844 individuals monitored during 27 years in a Pyrenean common crossbill L. curvirostra population in a forest of mountain pine Pinus uncinata. Apparent survival was indeed related to beak width, resulting in stabilizing selection around an optimum that was close to the observed mean beak width, indicating that local crossbill beak morphology is adapted to the conifer they feed upon. Both natural selection (selective mortality) and selective emigration of maladapted individuals may explain our findings. As is often the case in capture–recapture analyses but rarely recognised, we could not formally decompose apparent survival into selective mortality versus selective permanent emigration. Nonetheless, there are several indications that selective permanent emigration should not be fully excluded. First, natural selection by itself would have to be unusually strong compared to other empirical estimates to create the observed pattern of apparent survival. Second, the observed mean beak width was a bit lower than the estimated optimum beak width. This can be explained by immigration of crossbills with smaller beaks originating from southern populations, which may subsequently have left the study area permanently in response to low food intake. This is in line with a detected transient effect in the data, yet apparently little influx from crossbills from northern Europe. When permanent emigration is phenotypically selective this will have ecological and evolutionary consequences, so this possibility deserves more attention in general.
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