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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Parental care can be costly to parents’ fitness. As such, abandonment of the current reproductive attempt may benefit potential future opportunities, maximising lifetime reproductive success.
Antoine V. Turcotte-van de Rydt +6 more
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Grazing Impact on Brood Parasitism [PDF]
, 2015 Anthropogenic land use changes can have tremendous direct and indirect effects on biota. A prevalent land use change in Texas is conversion of land to grazing.
Locatelli, Anthony
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Assessing the Consequences of Brood Parasitism and Nest Predation On Seasonal Fecundity in Passerine Birds [PDF]
, 1995 Brood parasites and nest predators reduce the seasonal fecundity and, hence, the population growth rates of their victims. However, most field studies do not measure directly how parasites and predators decrease seasonal fecundity, but instead measure ...
Grzybowski, Joseph A., Pease, Craig M.
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Choice of nest attributes as a frontline defense against brood parasitism [PDF]
, 2021 Breeding- and nest-site choice is a behavioral strategy often used to counter negative interactions. Site choices before breeding prevent costs of predation and competition but have been neglected in the context of brood parasitism.
Morosinotto C. +5 more
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Russet Sparrows spot alien chicks from their nests
Avian Research, 2018 Background In coevolutionary interactions between brood parasites and their hosts, host parents are under strong selection to evolve defenses against parasitism.
Juan Huo +4 more
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Evolution: How Not to Detect a Brood Parasite [PDF]
Current Biology, 2018 An elegant study on social parasitism in digger wasps quantifies the costs and benefits of kin recognition and shows that recognizing non-kin comes at a cost. This supports 'Crozier's paradox' of why kin recognition genes are unlikely to evolve when rare alleles are selected against.
Bruce E, Lyon, Andrew G, Zink
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Anti-brood Parasite Defences: The Role of Individual and Social Learning
, 2017 In this chapter, we consider the ways in which learning is involved in the antibrood parasitism defences that hosts deploy across the nesting cycle. Brood parasitism varies in space and through time, and hosts have accordingly evolved plastic defences
Justin A. Welbergen +5 more
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Azure-winged Magpies breeding in urban areas can effectively reduce the risk of brood parasitism
Avian ResearchWith the ongoing acceleration of global urbanization, an increasingly larger proportion of natural habitats are being transformed and utilized by humans.
Jianping Liu +3 more
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Brood parasitism, provisioning rates and breeding phenology of male and female magpie hosts [PDF]
, 2020 Precioso M, Molina‐Morales M, Sanchez-Tojar A, Avilés JM, Martínez JG. Brood parasitism, provisioning rates and breeding phenology of male and female magpie hosts. Journal of Avian Biology.
Precioso, Marta +13 more
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Evidence for adaptive explanations of semelparity in animals
Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Semelparity, the reproductive strategy of reproducing once, is widespread but uncommon in animals. Classes of models to explain the evolution of semelparity are based either on age structure and mortality schedules – demographic models in which high post‐reproductive mortality risk favours high reproductive effort and semelparity results from ...
Diana O. Fisher +1 more
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