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| Title |
Plasticity of parental care under the risk of predation: how much should parents reduce care?
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| Published in |
Biology Letters, August 2013
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| DOI | 10.1098/rsbl.2013.0154 |
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| Authors |
Cameron K. Ghalambor, Susana I. Peluc, Thomas E. Martin |
| Abstract |
Predation can be an important agent of natural selection shaping parental care behaviours, and can also favour behavioural plasticity. Parent birds often decrease the rate that they visit the nest to provision offspring when perceived risk is high. Yet, the plasticity of such responses may differ among species as a function of either their relative risk of predation, or the mean rate of provisioning. Here, we report parental provisioning responses to experimental increases in the perceived risk of predation. We tested responses of 10 species of bird in north temperate Arizona and subtropical Argentina that differed in their ambient risk of predation. All species decreased provisioning rates in response to the nest predator but not to a control. However, provisioning rates decreased more in species that had greater ambient risk of predation on natural nests. These results support theoretical predictions that the extent of plasticity of a trait that is sensitive to nest predation risk should vary among species in accordance with predation risk. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Spain | 1 | 50% |
| United States | 1 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Scientists | 2 | 100% |
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The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 215 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 3 | 1% |
| Netherlands | 2 | <1% |
| Brazil | 2 | <1% |
| Germany | 1 | <1% |
| Sweden | 1 | <1% |
| Canada | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 205 | 95% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 56 | 26% |
| Student > Master | 42 | 20% |
| Researcher | 29 | 13% |
| Student > Bachelor | 26 | 12% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 13 | 6% |
| Other | 21 | 10% |
| Unknown | 28 | 13% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 147 | 68% |
| Environmental Science | 19 | 9% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 3 | 1% |
| Unspecified | 1 | <1% |
| Philosophy | 1 | <1% |
| Other | 7 | 3% |
| Unknown | 37 | 17% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 17 July 2013.
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#16,425,946
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#2,982
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#126,884
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#40
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