Impacts of “supermoon” events on the physiology of a wild bird
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The position of the Moon in relation to the Earth and the Sun gives rise to several predictable cycles, and natural changes in nighttime light intensity are known to cause alterations to physiological processes and behaviors in many animals. The limited research undertaken to date on the physiological responses of animals to the lunar illumination has exclusively focused on the synodic lunar cycle (full moon to full moon, or moon phase) but the moon's orbit—its distance from the Earth—may also be relevant. Every month, the moon moves from apogee, its most distant point from Earth—and then to perigee, its closest point to Earth. Here, we studied wild barnacle geese (Branta leucopsis) to investigate the influence of multiple interacting lunar cycles on the physiology of diurnally active animals. Our study, which uses biologging technology to continually monitor body temperature and heart rate for an entire annual cycle, asks whether there is evidence for a physiological response to natural cycles in lunar brightness in wild birds, particularly “supermoon” phenomena, where perigee coincides with a full moon. There was a three‐way interaction between lunar phase, lunar distance, and cloud cover as predictors of nighttime mean body temperature, such that body temperature was highest on clear nights when the full moon coincided with perigee moon. Our study is the first to report the physiological responses of wild birds to “supermoon” events; the wild geese responded to the combination of two independent lunar cycles, by significantly increasing their body temperature at night. That wild birds respond to natural fluctuations in nighttime ambient light levels support the documented responses of many species to anthropogenic sources of artificial light, that birds seem unable to override. As most biological systems are arguably organized foremost by light, this suggests that any interactions between lunar cycles and local weather conditions could have significant impacts on the energy budgets of birds.
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There are initial reports that terrestrial plants and animals can sense atmospheric pressure cycles.
“For example, atmospheric pressure cycles are measurable during perigee-syzygy tides (32), and there are initial reports that terrestrial plants and animals can sense them (33, 34).”
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The Introduction describes organisms detecting lunar changes, and the Discussion reports geese responding to supermoon events, particularly changes in nighttime light. Neither passage addresses whether terrestrial plants or animals sense atmospheric pressure cycles; searches for atmospheric and barometric pressure found no such evidence in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.72)
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- Authors
- Portugal, S. J., White, C. R., Frappell, P. B., Green, J. A., & Butler, P. J.
- Affiliations
- University of London (GB)
- Monash University (AU)
- University of Tasmania (AU)
- University of Liverpool (GB)
- University of Birmingham (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Portugal, Steven J.
- Venue
- Ecology and Evolution
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2019-06-25
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- 9
- Issue
- 14
- Pages
- 7974-7984
- ISSN
- 2045-7758 (ISSN-L)
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- PMC6662397
- OpenAlex
- W2955900823
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- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Impact of Light on Environment and Health
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Endocrine and Autonomic Systems › Circadian rhythm and melatonin
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Avian ecology and behavior
- Keywords
- supermoon, lunar cycle, lunar distance, lunar phases, heart rate, barnacle goose, Branta leucopsis, lunar illumination, cloud cover, biologging, wild birds, energy balance
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
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