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Title: | Lunar synchronization of daily activity patterns in a crepuscular avian insectivore | Authors: | EVENS, Ruben KOWALCZYK, Celine Norevik, Gabriel ULENAERS, Eddy Davaasuren, Batmunkh Bayargur, Soddelgerekh ARTOIS, Tom Akesson, Susanne Hedenstrom, Anders Liechti, Felix Valcu, Mihai Kempenaers, Bart |
Issue Date: | 2020 | Publisher: | WILEY | Source: | ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION, 10 (14) , p. 7106 -7116 | Abstract: | Biological rhythms of nearly all animals on earth are synchronized with natural light and are aligned to day-and-night transitions. Here, we test the hypothesis that the lunar cycle affects the nocturnal flight activity of European Nightjars (Caprimulgus europaeus). We describe daily activity patterns of individuals from three different countries across a wide geographic area, during two discrete periods in the annual cycle. Although the sample size for two of our study sites is small, the results are clear in that on average individual flight activity was strongly correlated with both local variation in day length and with the lunar cycle. We highlight the species' sensitivity to changes in ambient light and its flexibility to respond to such changes in different parts of the world. | Notes: | Evens, R (corresponding author), Max Planck Inst Ornithol, Dept Behav Ecol & Evolutionary Genet, Eberhard Gwinner Str, D-82319 Starnberg, Germany. ruben.evens@uhasselt.be |
Other: | Evens, R (corresponding author), Max Planck Inst Ornithol, Dept Behav Ecol & Evolutionary Genet, Eberhard Gwinner Str, D-82319 Starnberg, Germany. ruben.evens@uhasselt.be | Keywords: | animal behavior;European Nightjar;foraging ecology;lunar cycle;migration;multi-sensor logger | Document URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1942/32616 | ISSN: | 2045-7758 | e-ISSN: | 2045-7758 | DOI: | 10.1002/ece3.6412 | ISI #: | WOS:000547923500001 | Rights: | This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. © 2020 The Authors. Ecology and Evolution published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. | Category: | A1 | Type: | Journal Contribution | Validations: | ecoom 2021 |
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