Breeding territory size affects fitness : an experimental study on competition at the individual level

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Pairs of extreme avian personalities have highest reproductive success (2005, background): “The correlation between reproduction and exploratory behaviour may have been caused by variation in parental traits, territory quality, or both (Both & Visser 2000).”
Problem-solving performance is correlated with reproductive success in a wild bird population (2013, methodology): “To ensure that problem-solving trials were independent and to avoid social learning between tested pairs, we carried out the test on nests separated by at least 200 m from their nearest neighbours (Both & Visser 2000; Leal & Powell 2011).”
Is dispersal distance of birds proportional to territory size (2003, background): “Melospiza melodia 0.16 Schoener 1968 Motacilla alba 2.4 Houston et al. 1985 Numenius phaeopus 21 Skeel and Mallory 1996 Otus asio 58 Smith and Gilbert 1984; Sparks et al. 1994 Parabuteo unicinctus 548 Bednarz 1995 Parus caeruleus 1.6 Blondel 1985 Parus major 1.0 Both and Visser 2000 Parus palustri”