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Feeding Ecology of Scaup Ducklings across a Heterogeneous Boreal Wetland Landscape.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Feeding Ecology of Scaup Ducklings across a Heterogeneous Boreal Wetland Landscape./
Author:	DuBour, Adam J.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2019,
Description:	89 p.
Notes:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 81-04.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International81-04.
Subject:	Ecology. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=22587258
ISBN:	9781088351826

Feeding Ecology of Scaup Ducklings across a Heterogeneous Boreal Wetland Landscape.
DuBour, Adam J.

Feeding Ecology of Scaup Ducklings across a Heterogeneous Boreal Wetland Landscape. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2019 - 89 p.

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 81-04.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2019.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

Understanding how patterns of food resources influence the behavior and fitness of free-living animals is critical in predicting how changes to such resources might influence populations. The boreal region of North America is relatively undeveloped and contains abundant freshwater lakes and wetlands. These largely pristine and stable habitats harbor high densities of aquatic invertebrates, which are a critical food source for the numerous waterbird species that breed in the boreal. Invertebrates are of particular importance for the optimal growth and survival of waterbird chicks. However, observations of long-term change to boreal aquatic habitats and their invertebrate populations associated with a warming climate has been implicated in the declines of some boreal breeding waterbirds, such as the lesser scaup (Aythya affinis). Lesser scaup are known to feed extensively on amphipods, a freshwater crustacean; however, ducklings have been shown to have a diverse diet. Our goal was to use the naturally occurring heterogeneity of aquatic invertebrates across boreal lakes within the Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge in interior Alaska to better understand how changes in invertebrate prey resources might affect diet selection and growth in lesser scaup ducklings. First, we used a stable isotope approach to quantify the variation in the trophic niche within our population of ducklings. We found that as a population, lesser scaup ducklings consume a variety of aquatic insects, crustaceans and mollusks, and that variation in the population diet is largely attributable to variation in diet between birds from different lakes with different invertebrate communities. Second, we used the same habitat heterogeneity to examine how gradients of invertebrate abundance relate to the growth of ducklings. We observed that lesser scaup ducklings experienced reduced growth rates in lakes that had little to no amphipods. Taken together, these results suggest that while lesser scaup ducklings are a flexible consumer that can adapt to changes in invertebrate populations, ducklings may face negative fitness repercussions when consuming prey other than amphipods.

ISBN: 9781088351826Subjects--Topical Terms:

516476
Ecology.

Feeding Ecology of Scaup Ducklings across a Heterogeneous Boreal Wetland Landscape.
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