Silver spoons and snake body sizes: prey availability early in life influences long-term growth rates of free-ranging pythons
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Subfields: Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation
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In Ecology
- R. Shine
- Jonathan K. Webb
- P. Monaghan
- M. Whiting
- Rebecca L. Antworth
- D. Pike
- J. Stiner
- Patricia A. Fleming
In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
In Nature and Landscape Conservation
- R. Shine
- Jonathan K. Webb
- P. Monaghan
- M. Whiting
- Rebecca L. Antworth
- D. Pike
- J. Stiner
- Colin M. Beale
Citations in the corpus
- Identifying sources of variation in reproductive and life-history traits among five populations of a Chinese lizard (Takydromus septentrionalis, Lacertidae) (2005, background): “…few reptile species; for example, growth rates in adult freeranging snakes depend upon the animal’s exposure to feeding opportunities early in life (Madsen & Shine, 2000a) and some lizards manipulate litter and offspring sizes depending upon their feeding experience in the preceding year (Doughty…”
- Why don't small snakes bask? Juvenile broad-headed snakes trade thermal benefits for safety (2005, background): “Previous studies on snakes show that food intake early in life can dramatically influence subsequent survival, growth rates, and body sizes (Forsman 1993, Madsen and Shine 2000 ).”
- Life-History Evolution in Reptiles (2005, background): “…growth, and reproduction of filesnakes and pythons in tropical Australia display immense annual variation, driven by annual fluctuations in the abundance of prey (fishes and rodents, respectively), which in turn are driven by annual variation in rainfall (Madsen & Shine 2000b, Shine & Madsen 1997).”
- Earlier Nesting Contributes to Shorter Nesting Seasons for the Loggerhead Seaturtle, Caretta caretta (2006, background): “…has numerous potential consequences, including extending the nesting season, an extended period of growth for offspring (Fleming and Tatchell, 1995; Madsen and Shine, 2000; Sanz, 2002), and changes in clutch size (Sanz, 2002), incubation period, hatching success (Matsuzawa et al., 2002), and…”
- Environmental variability, life-history covariation and cohort effects in the red-billed chough Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax (2003, background): “Individual variation in early nutrition can give rise to ‘silver-spoon’ or ‘lead-spoon’ effects, causing positive covariation among multiple future life-history traits (Grafen 1988; Madsen & Shine 2000 ).”
- Rain, rats and pythons: Climate-driven population dynamics of predators and prey in tropical Australia (2006, background): “Abundance of pythons less than 1 year old (henceforth yearlings) could readily be estimated by their small body size (SVL Madsen & Shine 2000b ).”