Opposing selective pressures on hatching asynchrony: egg viability, brood reduction, and nestling growth

By J. Viñuela. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 2000

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Determinants of within‐ and among‐clutch variation in levels of maternal hormones in Black‐Headed Gull eggs (2002, background): “Hatching asynchrony may be an inevitable consequence of the start of incubation before clutch completion, which may function to prevent predation or reduction in egg viability (Webb 1987; Veiga 1992; Vinuela 2000).”
Supplementary feeding as an effective tool for improving breeding success in the Spanish imperial eagle (Aquila adalberti) (2006, result): “Our experimental food supplementation provides support for this hypothesis, unlike the findings of another study of the Spanish imperial eagle (Ferrer, 1993) and coinciding with what has been observed in other species such as the Black Kite (Milvus migrans) (Viñuela, 2000).”
Hatching asynchrony, nestling competition, and the cost of interspecific brood parasitism (2003, background): “The function of hatching asynchrony (HA) has been the subject of dynamic debates and intensive research effort (e.g., Clark and Wilson, 1981; Clotfelter and Yasukawa, 1999; Price and Ydenberg, 1995; Stoleson and Beissinger, 1995; Viñuela, 2000).”