Nest predation increases with parental activity: separating nest site and parental activity effects

By T. E. Martin, Jennifer Scott, C. Menge. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences, 2000

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Subfields: Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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In Ecology

1. S. Lima
2. Jan Ekman
3. Michael Griesser
4. S. Eggers
5. C. Ghalambor
6. T. E. Martin
7. T. Sillett
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In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. Michael Griesser
2. Jan Ekman
3. G. Blouin‐Demers
4. S. Lima
5. S. Eggers
6. E. Clotfelter
7. C. Ghalambor
8. T. Sillett

Citations in the corpus

• Food availability affects diurnal nest predation and adult antipredator behaviour in song sparrows, Melospiza melodia (2006, background): “Increasing time spent sitting on the nest and reducing time away from the nest has been proposed as a passive nest defence strategy (Martin 1992; Martin et al. 2000) that may be effective at camouflaging the nest and its contents (Montgomerie & Weatherhead 1988; Martin 1992), while also potentially…”
• Adaptive phenotypic plasticity in an island songbird exposed to a novel predation risk (2008, positive): “Presumably, because they are less constrained by the risk of attracting visually oriented predators, ground-nesting species provision their nestlings at a higher rate compared with canopy and shrub nesters (Martin et al. 2000).”
• TIME-SPECIFIC VARIATION IN PASSERINE NEST SURVIVAL: NEW INSIGHTS INTO OLD QUESTIONS (2005, background): “Increased nest visits by parents may provide cues to predators (Conway and Martin 2000, Martin et al. 2000), making it more likely that a predator will fi nd the nest.”
• Nestling begging increases predation risk, regardless of spectral characteristics or avian mobbing (2009, result): “Although the level of nest concealment has been found to influence predation in some systems (Martin et al. 2000; Eggers et al. 2008), this was not the case here.”
• Comparative manipulation of predation risk in incubating birds reveals variability in the plasticity of responses (2002, background): “Because nest predation can increase with increasing parental activity near the nest (e.g., Martin et al., 2000a,b), Figure 1 Relationship between male incubation feeding rate (mean over 6 h) versus ambient nest predation rate during incubation period for five coexisting species in this study (data…”
• Predator-induced reductions in nest visitation rates are modified by forest cover and food availability (2008, background): “However, evidence for this predator avoidance hypothesis comes mainly from interspecific comparative analyses (Martin et al. 2000a; Strickland and Waite 2001) and experimental field studies on short-term responses of parents to the threat posed by predation (Ghalambor and Martin 2000, 2002).”
• Individual quality and age affect responses to an energetic constraint in a cavity-nesting bird (2007, background): “The lowered egg temperature in the nests of younger females lead to extended incubation periods, which may increase predation risk (Ghalambor and Martin 2000; Martin et al. 2000; Hepp et al. 2005).”
• Predator-induced plasticity in nest visitation rates in the Siberian jay (Perisoreus infaustus) (2005, result): “Although some have failed to document a link between nest activity and predation rates (Farnsworth and Simons, 1999; Roper and Goldstein, 1997), more recent work provides support for Skutch’s ideas, especially when the variable effects of nest site are controlled ( Martin et al., 2000b ).”
• IS SELECTIVELY HARVESTED FOREST AN ECOLOGICAL TRAP FOR OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHERS? (2007, background): “The likelihood of nest predation by visually oriented predators increases during the nestling phase because the high level of parental activity around the nest can cue predators to its location (Martin et al. 2000).”
• Interactive effects of concealment, parental behaviour and predators on the survival of open passerine nests (2002, background): “Relative effects of parental behaviour and nest site have often been inferred from comparisons between artificial (without parents) and natural (with parents) nests (Cresswell 1997; Wilson, Brittingham & Goodrich 1998; King et al. 1999; Komdeur & Kats 1999; Davison & Bollinger 2000; Martin et al. 2”
• Understanding avian nest predation: why ornithologists should study snakes (2004, positive): “More than 50 years ago Skutch (1949) proposed that parental activity around the nest could increase exposure of the nest to predation, an idea that has received recent support (Martin et al. 2000a, b).”