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Mobbing of the top predator: a correlation between avian community richness and the number of mobbing species

The result's identifiers

  • Result code in IS VaVaI

    <a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F62690094%3A18470%2F19%3A50015829" target="_blank" >RIV/62690094:18470/19:50015829 - isvavai.cz</a>

  • Alternative codes found

    RIV/00023272:_____/19:10134381

  • Result on the web

    <a href="https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10336-019-01662-x.pdf" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10336-019-01662-x.pdf</a>

  • DOI - Digital Object Identifier

    <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10336-019-01662-x" target="_blank" >10.1007/s10336-019-01662-x</a>

Alternative languages

  • Result language

    angličtina

  • Original language name

    Mobbing of the top predator: a correlation between avian community richness and the number of mobbing species

  • Original language description

    Mobbing is an anti-predator strategy initiated by one or more members of prey species aiming at driving away a predator that is not undertaking an attack. Because of a continuous dispute as to whether mobbing of a top predator may indicate species richness, we tested the correlation between the number of species engaging in mobbing and avian community richness. In the boreal forest of central Norway, we conducted a series of 83 bird census trials in 2014 and 2015. Each census trial consisted of two 5-min phases. In the first phase an ordinary point count was performed as a control; in the immediately following second phase either a stuffed Eagle Owl or Capercaillie female decoy was presented to study mobbing of a top avian predator and non-predatory species. Mobbing was more likely to occur, and the number of species that engaged in mobbing was higher, in habitats richer of bird species. Our study showed that the cumulative effects of being mobbed increase with richness of the local avian community. We did not find any support for the notion that mobbing is triggered by mobbing activity of the two most active and abundant species. No support was provided for an assertion that using an owl decoy would result in higher number of detected species during a census. Our study urges the need for identification and quantification of costs of mobbing for an avian predator.

  • Czech name

  • Czech description

Classification

  • Type

    J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

  • CEP classification

  • OECD FORD branch

    10613 - Zoology

Result continuities

  • Project

  • Continuities

    I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Others

  • Publication year

    2019

  • Confidentiality

    S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Data specific for result type

  • Name of the periodical

    Journal of Ornithology

  • ISSN

    2193-7192

  • e-ISSN

  • Volume of the periodical

    160

  • Issue of the periodical within the volume

    3

  • Country of publishing house

    DE - GERMANY

  • Number of pages

    8

  • Pages from-to

    665-672

  • UT code for WoS article

    000474452100008

  • EID of the result in the Scopus database

    2-s2.0-85064215860