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Reassessing the Determinants of Breeding Synchrony in Ungulates

Overview of attention for article published in PLOS ONE, July 2012
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Title
Reassessing the Determinants of Breeding Synchrony in Ungulates
Published in
PLOS ONE, July 2012
DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0041444
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Authors

Annie K. English, Aliénor L. M. Chauvenet, Kamran Safi, Nathalie Pettorelli

Abstract

Predicting the consequences of climate change is a major challenge in ecology and wildlife management. While the impact of changes in climatic conditions on distribution ranges has been documented for many organisms, the consequences of changes in resource dynamics for species' overall performance have seldom been investigated. This study addresses this gap by identifying the factors shaping the reproductive synchrony of ungulates. In temporally-variable environments, reproductive phenology of individuals is a key determinant of fitness, with the timing of reproduction affecting their reproductive output and future performance. We used a satellite-based index of resource availability to explore how the level of seasonality and inter-annual variability in resource dynamics affect birth season length of ungulate populations. Contrary to what was previously thought, we found that both the degree of seasonal fluctuation in resource dynamics and inter-annual changes in resource availability influence the degree of birth synchrony within wild ungulate populations. Our results highlight how conclusions from previous interspecific analyses, which did not consider the existence of shared life-history among species, should be treated with caution. They also support the existence of a multi-faceted link between temporal variation in resource availability and breeding synchrony in terrestrial mammals, and increase our understanding of the mechanisms shaping reproductive synchrony in large herbivores, thus enhancing our ability to predict the potential impacts of climate change on biodiversity.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Canada 3 4%
Germany 3 4%
Mexico 1 1%
Unknown 73 91%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 21 26%
Researcher 14 18%
Student > Master 14 18%
Student > Doctoral Student 6 8%
Student > Bachelor 4 5%
Other 10 13%
Unknown 11 14%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 45 56%
Environmental Science 21 26%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 2 3%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 1 1%
Social Sciences 1 1%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 10 13%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 19 December 2012.
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#7,792,756
of 25,587,485 outputs
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#105,789
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#53,748
of 178,316 outputs
Outputs of similar age from PLOS ONE
#1,433
of 3,972 outputs
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