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Spatial patterns,ecological niches,and interspecific competition of avian brood parasites: inferring from a case study of Korea
Authors:Jin‐Won Lee  Hee‐Jin Noh  Yunkyoung Lee  Young‐Soo Kwon  Chang‐Hoe Kim  Jeong‐Chil Yoo
Affiliation:1. Department of Biology, Korea Institute of Ornithology, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea;2. Bureau of Basic Ecological Research, National Institute of Ecology, Seocheon, Korea;3. Migratory Birds Centre, Korea National Park Research Institute, Shinan, Korea
Abstract:Since obligate avian brood parasites depend completely on the effort of other host species for rearing their progeny, the availability of hosts will be a critical resource for their life history. Circumstantial evidence suggests that intense competition for host species may exist not only within but also between species. So far, however, few studies have demonstrated whether the interspecific competition really occurs in the system of avian brood parasitism and how the nature of brood parasitism is related to their niche evolution. Using the occurrence data of five avian brood parasites from two sources of nationwide bird surveys in South Korea and publically available environmental/climatic data, we identified their distribution patterns and ecological niches, and applied species distribution modeling to infer the effect of interspecific competition on their spatial distribution. We found that the distribution patterns of five avian brood parasites could be characterized by altitude and climatic conditions, but overall their spatial ranges and ecological niches extensively overlapped with each other. We also found that the predicted distribution areas of each species were generally comparable to the realized distribution areas, and the numbers of individuals in areas where multiple species were predicted to coexist showed positive relationships among species. In conclusion, despite following different coevolutionary trajectories to adapt to their respect host species, five species of avian brood parasites breeding in South Korea occupied broadly similar ecological niches, implying that they tend to conserve ancestral preferences for ecological conditions. Furthermore, our results indicated that contrary to expectation interspecific competition for host availability between avian brood parasites seemed to be trivial, and thus, play little role in shaping their spatial distributions and ecological niches. Future studies, including the complete ranges of avian brood parasites and ecological niches of host species, will be worthwhile to further elucidate these issues.
Keywords:Avian brood parasitism     Cuculus     ecological niche  interspecific competition  spatial distribution  species distribution modeling
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