The Significance of Clutch‐size

By D. Lack. 2008

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Subfields: Animal Science and Zoology, Ecology, Parasitology

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Nest predation research: recent findings and future perspectives (2015, background): “Increased nest predation is expected to favour faster growth in evolutionary time (Lack 1948; Bosque and Bosque 1995; Martin 1995; Remeš and Martin 2002), and species with greater nest predation risk evolve faster growth and an associated reduction in provisioning rates (Martin et al.”
The Energetic Costs of Nest Building in Birds (2013, background): “Traditionally, avian life-history research has focused on the brood-rearing phase because there was a belief that clutch size was shaped by natural selection to correspond to the number of nestlings which the parents could successfully provision with food (Lack, 1947).”
Testing ecological and behavioral correlates of nest predation (2007, background): “Journal compilation # 2007 Oikos Subject Editor: Jan Lindström, Accepted 21 June 2007 are generally explained by differences in predation risk inherent to each nesting guild (Lack 1948, Nice 1957, Martin 1995).”
Enclosed nests may provide greater thermal than nest predation benefits compared with open nests across latitudes (2017, background): “1b), and do not include holes in trees (Lack 1948; Nice 1957; Collias & Collias 1984).”
Trade-offs in modern parenting: a longitudinal study of sibling competition for parental care (2009, background): “A central assumption of quantity–quality trade-off models is that parental resources are finite (Becker & Lewis, 1973; Lack, 1947; Stearns, 1992; Williams, 1966).”
Ecological opportunity and the origin of adaptive radiations (2010, background): “The idea of ecological opportunity emerged when ecologists and naturalists noted that certain environmental conditions – such as islands, depauperate habitats, new food resources or antagonist-free spaces – seem to be associated with rapid diversification in some lineages (Mayr, 1942; Lack, 1947; Eh”
Annual routines of non‐migratory birds: optimal moult strategies (2006, background): “The food limitation hypothesis states that birds have small clutches in the tropics because the small variation in the food supply allows only a limited surplus for reproduction during the tropical summer (Lack 1947, Ashmole 1963, Lack 1968, Ricklefs 1980).”
Are all eggs created equal? Food availability and the fitness trade-off between reproduction and immunity (2013, background): “Furthermore, because investment per offspring and parental fecundity trade off (Lack 1947), parents must balance the fitness benefits accrued from increases in offspring size and viability against any potential fitness costs resulting from decreases in fecundity (Smith & Fretwell 1974).”