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Season of birth affects juvenile survival of giraffe

verfasst von: Derek Edward Lee, Monica Louise Bond, Douglas Thomas Bolger

Erschienen in: Population Ecology | Ausgabe 1/2017

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Variation in timing of reproduction and subsequent juvenile survival often plays an important role in population dynamics of temperate and boreal ungulates. Tropical ungulates often give birth year round, but survival effects of birth season for tropical ungulate species are unknown. We used a population of giraffe in the Tarangire Ecosystem of northern Tanzania, East Africa to determine whether calf survival varied by season of birth. Variation in juvenile survival according to season of birth was significant, with calves born during the dry season experiencing the highest survival probability. Phenological match may confer a juvenile survival advantage to offspring born during the dry season from greater accumulated maternal energy reserves in mothers who conceive in the long rainy season, high-protein browse in the late dry-early short rainy seasons supplementing maternal and calf resources, reduced predation due to decreased stalking cover, or some combination of these. Asynchrony is believed to be the ancestral state of all ungulates, and this investigation has illustrated how seasonal variation in vegetation can affect juvenile survival and may play a role in the evolution of synchronous births.

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Titel: Season of birth affects juvenile survival of giraffe
verfasst von: Derek Edward Lee
Monica Louise Bond
Douglas Thomas Bolger
Publikationsdatum: 27.02.2017
Verlag: Springer Japan
Erschienen in: Population Ecology / Ausgabe 1/2017
Print ISSN: 1438-3896
Elektronische ISSN: 1438-390X
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10144-017-0571-8

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