Skewed sex ratios in a newly established osprey population

Morandini, Virginia; Muriel, Roberto; Newton, Ian ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7757-4008; Ferrer, Miguel. 2019 Skewed sex ratios in a newly established osprey population. Journal of Ornithology, 160 (4). 1025-1033. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10336-019-01680-9

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10336-019-01680-9

Abstract/Summary

With recent increases in the numbers of reintroduction projects, it has become crucial to know the main factors that allow colonization of new areas and prevent the extinction of small and reintroduced populations. Dispersal is one of the most important phenomena in population biology with consequences to the proportion of individuals that keep breeding in the natal population and the number of individuals that move to other populations to breed. We studied changes in offspring sex ratio and differences in dispersal patterns between the sexes in a reintroduced population of osprey (Pandion haliaetus). Results showed that at the beginning of the colonization process breeding pairs produced more males, which dispersed shorter distances and were more philopatric than females. However, with increasing breeding population size over the years, the offspring production was skewed to females, which dispersed longer distances from their natal area and tended to breed in different areas. Here we suggest that changes in offspring sex ratio during colonization processes, together with differences in dispersal pattern between sexes, could influence colonization rate and the probability of success of future reintroduction projects.

Item Type:	Publication - Article
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10336-019-01680-9
UKCEH and CEH Sections/Science Areas:	UKCEH Fellows
ISSN:	2193-7192
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Additional Keywords:	sex-ratio, osprey, colonization, dispersal, small populations
NORA Subject Terms:	Zoology Biology and Microbiology
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Date made live:	25 Jul 2019 15:05 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/524535

Item Type:

Publication - Article

Digital Object Identifier (DOI):

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10336-019-01680-9

UKCEH and CEH Sections/Science Areas:

UKCEH Fellows

ISSN:

2193-7192

Additional Information. Not used in RCUK Gateway to Research.:

Publisher link (see Related URLs) provides a read-only full-text copy of the published paper.

Additional Keywords:

sex-ratio, osprey, colonization, dispersal, small populations