10.5061/DRYAD.K785P43
Woodworth, Brad K.
University of Windsor
Norris, D. Ryan
University of Guelph
Graham, Brendan A.
University of Windsor
Kahn, Zachary A.
University of Windsor
Mennill, Daniel J.
University of Windsor
Woodworth, Bradley K.
University of Guelph
Data from: Hot temperatures during the dry season reduce survival of a
resident tropical bird
Dryad
dataset
2018
Rufous-and-white Wren
Thryophilus rufalbus
Southern Oscillation Index
Holocene
2018-04-13T15:23:21Z
2018-04-13T15:23:21Z
en
https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2018.0176
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CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication
Understanding how climate change will shape species distributions in the
future requires a functional understanding of the demographic responses of
animals to their environment. For birds, most of our knowledge of how
climate influences population vital rates stems from research in temperate
environments, even though most of the Earth’s avian diversity is
concentrated in the tropics. We evaluated effects of Southern Oscillation
Index (SOI) and local temperature and rainfall at multiple temporal scales
on sex-specific survival of a resident tropical bird, the Rufous-and-White
Wren Thryophilus rufalbus, studied over 15 years in the dry forests of
northwestern Costa Rica. We found that annual apparent survival of males
was 8% higher than females, more variable over time, and responded more
strongly to environmental variation than female survival, which did not
vary strongly with SOI or local weather. For males, mean and maximum local
temperatures were better predictors of survival than either rainfall or
SOI, with high temperatures during the dry season and early wet season
negatively influencing survival. These results suggest that, even for
species adapted to hot environments, further temperature increases may
threaten the persistence of local populations in the absence of
distributional shifts.
Mark-recapture/re-sighting data and model codeThis file contains: (1)
mark-recapture/re-sighting data summarized in m-array format for
Rufous-and-white Wrens (Thryophilus rufalbus) from Sector Santa Rosa of
the Area de Conservación Guanacaste in northwestern, Costa Rica (10°52’N,
85°36’W) collected from 2003-2017; (2) a description of the climate and
weather covariates included in survival analyses; and (3) R and JAGS code
for estimating effects of climate and weather on sex-specific survival of
Rufous-and-white Wrens.Woodworth_et_al_CMR_DATA_AND_MODEL_CODE.txtClimate
and weather dataThe contents and structure of this file are described in
Woodworth_et_al_CMR_DATA_AND_MODEL_CODE.txtWoodworth_et_al_CLIMATE_AND_WEATHER_DATA.csv
Neotropics
Costa Rica