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Precipitation and female experience are major determinants of the breeding performance of Canarian houbara bustards

open access: yesWildlife Biology, EarlyView.
Precipitation is one of the main triggers of reproduction in desert‐breeding birds. The unpredictability of rainfall patterns in arid environments has led species to adapt their breeding effort to episodes of abundant food after rainfall. The response is not the same for all individuals in a population, and may vary especially with the age and ...
Juan C. Alonso   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Bimodal nesting season in Karoo dwarf tortoises (Chersobius boulengeri)

open access: yesWildlife Biology, EarlyView.
Tortoises in arid, unpredictable regions may use a bet‐hedging strategy of regularly laying small clutches regardless of actual environmental conditions, so that some hatchlings will emerge when conditions are favourable. Karoo dwarf tortoises (Chersobius boulengeri) are endangered in their arid, unpredictable range in South Africa, yet studies of ...
Victor J. T. Loehr
wiley   +1 more source

A clock for all seasons. [PDF]

open access: yesJ Comp Physiol A Neuroethol Sens Neural Behav Physiol
Helfrich-Förster C, Rieger D.
europepmc   +1 more source

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