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Does weather affect biting fly abundance in avian nests?
Martínez de la Puente, Josué
Merino, Santiago
Lobato, Elisa
Rivero de Aguilar, Juan
Cerro Gómez, Sara del
Ruiz de Castañeda, Rafael
Moreno Klemming, Juan
Environmental factors may strongly affect avian-biting fly interactions in different ways because insects are heterothermic organisms that depend greatly on environmental variables to activate their metabolism and behaviour. We studied the effects of weather on both blackfly (Simuliidae) and biting midge Culicoides (Ceratopogonidae) abundance in nests of three passerine species: blue tits Cyanistes caeruleus, great tits Parus major and pied flycatchers Ficedula hypoleuca, breeding in the same area. We controlled for different host-related factors (hatching date, brood size and host species). Blackfly abundance was negatively related to minimum temperature. In addition, blackfly and biting midge abundances were negatively affected by wind speed measured at 07.00 h, but blackfly abundance was positively associated to wind speed at
18.00 h. We found higher blackfly and biting midge abundances in nests with larger broods breeding later in the season, and significantly higher biting midge abundance in pied flycatcher nests as compared to tit nests. These results represent, to our knowledge, the first report of both environmental and host-related effects on haematophagous fly abundance in the nests of wild hole-nesting birds
2012-09-11T09:51:36Z
2012-09-11T09:51:36Z
2009
artículo
Journal of Avian Biology, 40: 653-657 (2009)
http://hdl.handle.net/10261/56062
10.1111/j.1600-048X.2009.04726.x
eng
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-048X.2009.04726.x
openAccess
Nordic Ecological Society Oikos