Parental provisioning and offspring fitness: size matters

By P. Schwagmeyer, D. Mock. 2008

230 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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In Ecology

1. A. Liker
2. G. Seress
3. K. Evans
4. Kevin J. Gaston
5. N. Boogert
6. L. Lefebvre
7. C. Bonnington
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In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. N. Boogert
2. A. Liker
3. G. Seress
4. L. Lefebvre
5. Frédérique Dubois
6. B. Doligez
7. L. Cauchard
8. K. Evans

Citations in the corpus

• Honest begging: expanding from Signal of Need (2011, background): “Some have related solicitation signals to a plausible fitness proxy like body size or physical development (e.g., avian plumage), citing various studies that link these traits to viability (for references relating fledging mass to recruitment in 22 bird species, see Schwagmeyer and Mock 2008).”
• Fearing the feline: domestic cats reduce avian fecundity through trait-mediated indirect effects that increase nest predation by other species (2013, background): “Reduced food delivery, even over short time periods, can adversely influence chick condition and reproductive success (Schwagmeyer & Mock 2008; Dunn, Hamer & Benton 2010; Martin et al. 2011), and over longer time periods can promote smaller clutches (Skutch 1949; Martin et al. 2000).”
• Problem-solving performance is correlated with reproductive success in a wild bird population (2013, background): “…and reproductive output therefore strongly depends on food resources with limited availability (van Noordwijk et al. 1995; ), and thus depends on parental foraging performance during the nestling period (e.g. Ens et al. 1992; Barba et al. 1995; Naef-Daenzer & Keller 1999; Schwagmeyer & Mock 2008).”
• Habitat urbanization and its effects on birds (2015, background): “In their study Schwagmeyer and Mock (2008) made an attempt to translate invertebrate food size into food value and estimated that a single Acta Zool.”
• Urbanization, nestling growth and reproductive success in a moderately declining house sparrow population (2012, methodology): “For each visit we categorized the size of food item delivered by the parent as small, medium, large or unknown following Schwagmeyer and Mock (2008) who found that the delivery rate of large food items (enormous prey or ‘e-prey’) strongly predicted nestling mass and recruitment in house sparrows.”