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<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">Journal of General Biology</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">Journal of General Biology</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Журнал общей биологии</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">0044-4596</issn><issn publication-format="electronic">3034-5685</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="en">The Russian Academy of Sciences</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">698802</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.7868/S3034543X25060042</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>Scientific discussions</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>Научные дискуссии</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="article-type"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title xml:lang="en">Chronicle of the disappearance of the Yellow-breasted Bunting (<italic>Emberiza aureola</italic>, Emberizidae, Passeriformes): Seasonal population dynamics and survival</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>ХРОНИКА ИСЧЕЗНОВЕНИЯ ДУБРОВНИКА (<italic>EMBERIZA AUREOLA</italic>, EMBERIZIDAE, PASSERIFORMES): СЕЗОННАЯ ДИНАМИКА ПОПУЛЯЦИИ И ВЫЖИВАЕМОСТЬ</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Bourski</surname><given-names>O. V</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Бурский</surname><given-names>О. В</given-names></name></name-alternatives><email>obourski@gmail.com</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff1"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Институт проблем экологии и эволюции им. А.Н. Северцова РАН</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2025-11-15" publication-format="electronic"><day>15</day><month>11</month><year>2025</year></pub-date><volume>86</volume><issue>6</issue><issue-title xml:lang="en">VOL 86, NO6 (2025)</issue-title><issue-title xml:lang="ru">ТОМ 86, №6 (2025)</issue-title><fpage>459</fpage><lpage>478</lpage><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2025-12-16"><day>16</day><month>12</month><year>2025</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement xml:lang="en">Copyright ©; 2025, Russian Academy of Sciences</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="ru">Copyright ©; 2025, Российская академия наук</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2025</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Russian Academy of Sciences</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Российская академия наук</copyright-holder><ali:free_to_read xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" start_date="2026-11-15"/></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://journals.eco-vector.com/0044-4596/article/view/698802">https://journals.eco-vector.com/0044-4596/article/view/698802</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="en"><p>The Yellow-breasted Bunting (<italic>Emberiza aureola</italic>) is a tropical migrant breeding in taiga zone. Once numerous, the species is on the Red List, and since 2017 has been classified as especially threatened. Biological traits of the species are still not studied enough. The purpose of the present study is to fill in the gap with original data on annual survival and seasonal peculiarities of main events on the breeding grounds and determine whether they can play a role in its unlucky fortune. Treating the trapping and marking data on the taiga population in Central Siberia, we carried out the capture-recapture analysis by means of multinomial stochastic modeling. As shown by seasonal dynamics, the phases of the annual cycle allocated to the breeding area are heavily shortened. Some features point out that the dispersal is poorly developed. Annual adult survival reached high values. At the same time, the driver of population fluctuations was the survival rate of one-year-old individuals. The survival has shrunk sharply between 1998 and 2004, so that the population has not recovered thereafter. Based on the data obtained, the connection between the extinction of the population and the recent unprecedented expansion of the species as a probable consequence of the exploitation of rice crops in Southeast Asia is discussed. An excess of food resources in the winter range determined the expansion of the breeding area and significant changes in the annual and life cycle. The sharp depletion of winter resources has led to a modern reduction in numbers and range. To maintain the population of the species, at least local elimination of the causes is necessary. Adaptations acquired during expansion will impede the recovery.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="ru"><p>Дубровник (<italic>Emberiza aureola</italic>) – тропический мигрант, гнездящийся в таежной зоне. Некогда многочисленный, вид находится в Красном списке МСОП, с 2017 г. – в статусе особо угрожаемого. Биология вида остается недостаточно изученной. Задачей работы было собрать сведения по ежегодной выживаемости и сезонной динамике дубровника в гнездовом ареале и установить, насколько они могли предопределить его роковую судьбу. По материалам отлова и мечения птиц таежной популяции в Центральной Сибири мы провели анализ повторных встреч с помощью мультиномиального стохастического моделирования. Сезонная динамика показала, что продолжительность фаз годового цикла, проходящих в гнездовом ареале, у дубровника короче, чем у близких видов. Ряд признаков указывал на ограниченную дисперсию. Выживаемость взрослых достигала высоких значений. При этом драйвером популяционных колебаний численности была выживаемость годовалых особей. Между 1998 и 2004 г. выживаемость резко сократилась, после чего популяция не смогла восстановиться. На основе полученных данных обсуждается связь вымирания популяции с недавним беспрецедентным расселением вида как вероятным следствием эксплуатации урожая риса в Юго-Восточной Азии. Избыток кормовых ресурсов в зимнем ареале определил расширение области гнездования, существенные изменения годового и жизненного цикла. Снижение доступности зимних ресурсов привело к современному сокращению численности и ареала. Для поддержания численности вида необходимо хотя бы локальное устранение причин ее сокращения. Адаптации, приобретенные в ходе экспансии, будут препятствовать восстановлению.</p></trans-abstract><funding-group><funding-statement xml:lang="ru">Исследование поддержано грантами РФФИ 11-04-01614, 15-04-08491 и программой Президиума РАН “Живая природа”.</funding-statement></funding-group></article-meta></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>1.</label><mixed-citation>Бурский О.В., 2011. 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