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Given the potential impacts on the resident biota, climate change projections predicting longer and more intense dry seasons are of particular concern. However, the ecological processes that underlie links between rainfall regimes and the population biology of tropical birds are unclear. Chapter 2 explores the influence of seasonal drought intensity on indicators of individual-level condition and nutrition across a suite of understory species. Changes in food-resource availability during seasonal drought is one possible mechanism driving the population level responses to dry season length in tropical birds. This project coincided with an extreme El Niño induced drought in central Panama, which allowed me to explore how seasonal drought intensity influences species and foraging guilds with differing sensitivity to dry conditions. I captured 258 birds from 27 species during the two focal dry seasons. I estimated individual condition using the scaled-mass index and I measured hematocrit in 371 collected blood samples, of which 319 were assayed for plasma lipid metabolites to examine nutritional state. The clearest evidence of elevated nutritional stress at the end of the extreme dry season came from a focal species for which longer dry seasons has a significant negative effect on population growth rates. Overall, I found mixed evidence for increased nutritional stress over the course of the dry season within focal species or among foraging guilds.","abstract_html":"Tropical rainfall regimes have profound effects on the phenology and demography of resident organisms. Furthermore, evidence is emerging that the severity of seasonal drought can affect the viability of bird populations. 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This project coincided with an extreme El Niño induced drought in central Panama, which allowed me to explore how seasonal drought intensity influences species and foraging guilds with differing sensitivity to dry conditions. I captured 258 birds from 27 species during the two focal dry seasons. I estimated individual condition using the scaled-mass index and I measured hematocrit in 371 collected blood samples, of which 319 were assayed for plasma lipid metabolites to examine nutritional state. The clearest evidence of elevated nutritional stress at the end of the extreme dry season came from a focal species for which longer dry seasons has a significant negative effect on population growth rates. 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