Habitat-dependent Culicoides species composition and abundance in blue tit (Cyanistes caeruleus) nests
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Título: | Habitat-dependent Culicoides species composition and abundance in blue tit (Cyanistes caeruleus) nests |
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Autor/es: | Garrido-Bautista, Jorge | Martínez-de la Puente, Josué | Ros-Santaella, José Luis | Pintus, Eliana | Lopezosa, Paula | Bernardo, Nicola | Comas, Mar | Moreno Rueda, Gregorio |
Centro, Departamento o Servicio: | Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Ecología |
Palabras clave: | Avian malaria | Avian nests | Biting midges | Blood-feeding insects | Haemoproteus | Host selection | Vectors |
Área/s de conocimiento: | Ecología |
Fecha de publicación: | 16-may-2022 |
Editor: | Cambridge University Press |
Cita bibliográfica: | Parasitology. 2022, 149(8): 1119-1128. https://doi.org/10.1017/S003118202200066X |
Resumen: | Wild birds are hosts of Culicoides from as early on as the nesting stage when constrained to their nests. However, the environmental factors which determine the abundance and composition of Culicoides species within each bird nest are still understudied. We sampled Culicoides from Eurasian blue tit (Cyanistes caeruleus) nests found in two types of forest located in southern Spain. Firstly, we monitored the abundance of Culicoides species in bird nests from a dry Pyrenean oak deciduous forest and a humid mixed forest comprising Pyrenean and Holm oaks throughout two consecutive years. During the third year, we performed a cross-fostering experiment between synchronous nests to differentiate the role of rearing environment conditions from that of the genetically determined or maternally transmitted cues released by nestlings from each forest. We found 147 female Culicoides from 5 different species in the birds’ nests. The abundance of Culicoides was higher in the dry forest than in the humid forest. Culicoides abundance, species richness, and prevalence were greater when the nestlings were hatched later in the season. The same pattern was observed in the cross-fostering experiment, but we did not find evidence that nestling’s features determined by the forest of origin had any effect on the Culicoides collected. These results support the notion that habitat type has a strong influence on the Culicoides affecting birds in their nests, while some life history traits of birds, such as the timing of reproduction, also influence Culicoides abundance and species composition. |
Patrocinador/es: | This study was partially funded by projects within the National Plan of the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competition (CGL2014-55969-P and CGL2017-84938-P), the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (PID2020-118205GB-I00), and the Andalusian government (A.RNM.48.UGR20), co-funded with FEDER funds from the European Union. JLRS and EP were supported by Erasmus+ grants from the European Union. JGB was supported by a FPU predoctoral contract from the Spanish Ministry of Education (FPU18/03034). |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10045/123696 |
ISSN: | 0031-1820 (Print) | 1469-8161 (Online) |
DOI: | 10.1017/S003118202200066X |
Idioma: | eng |
Tipo: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Derechos: | © The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press. This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution and reproduction, provided the original article is properly cited. |
Revisión científica: | si |
Versión del editor: | https://doi.org/10.1017/S003118202200066X |
Aparece en las colecciones: | Personal Investigador sin Adscripción a Grupo |
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