Diet specialization in a generalist population: the case of breeding great tits Parus major in the Mediterranean area

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• 作者：E. Pagani-Núñez ; M. Valls ; J. C. Senar
• 关键词：Foraging behaviour ; Niche overlap ; Niche partitioning ; Prey selection ; Provisioning rates
• 刊名：Oecologia
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：November 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：179
• 期：3
• 页码：629-640
• 全文大小：575 KB
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• 作者单位：E. Pagani-Núñez (1) (2)
  M. Valls (1)
  J. C. Senar (1)
  
  1. Evolutionary Ecology Associate Research Unit (CSIC), Natural History Museum of Barcelona, Psg. Picasso s/n., 08003, Barcelona, Spain
  2. Behavioral and Community Ecology, Conservation Biology Group, College of Forestry, Guangxi University, No. 100 Daxue Road, Nanning, 530005, Guangxi, People’s Republic of China
  
• 刊物类别：Biomedical and Life Sciences
• 刊物主题：Life Sciences
  Ecology
  Plant Sciences
  
• 出版者：Springer Berlin / Heidelberg
• ISSN：1432-1939

文摘

The analysis of diet specialization provides key information on how different individuals deal with similar food and habitat constraints within populations. Characterizing parental diet specialization at the moment of breeding, and the consistency of these preferences under different levels of effort, may help us to understand why parents exploit alternative resources. We investigated these questions in a species commonly considered a generalist: a breeding population of Mediterranean great tits Parus major. Our aim was to determine whether they are specialists or generalists at the pair level, and the consistency of this behaviour under different levels of effort. Using proportional similarity and mean pairwise overlap indices, we found that parents showed great variability in prey selection between territories. That is, they displayed a small niche overlap. Interestingly, the most specialized breeding pairs showed a tendency to have larger broods. Additionally, we experimentally manipulated brood size and found that parents showed high short-term consistency in their foraging behaviour. They precisely adjusted the number of provisioning trips to the number of nestlings, while they were unable to modify prey proportions or prey size after brood size was changed. We can therefore characterize their foraging strategies as highly consistent. Our results suggest that although the great tit may be considered a generalist at the species or population level, there was a tendency for trophic specialization among breeding pairs. This high inter- and intrapopulation plasticity could account for their great success and wide distribution.