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A conceptual framework for clutch-size evolution in songbirds.

Overview of attention for article published in The American Naturalist, February 2014
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Title
A conceptual framework for clutch-size evolution in songbirds.
Published in
The American Naturalist, February 2014
DOI 10.1086/674966
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Thomas E Martin

Abstract

Causes of evolved differences in clutch size among songbird species remain debated. I propose a new conceptual framework that integrates aspects of traditional life-history theory while including novel elements to explain evolution of clutch size among songbirds. I review evidence that selection by nest predation on length of time that offspring develop in the nest creates a gradient in offspring characteristics at nest leaving (fledging), including flight mobility, spatial dispersion, and self-feeding rate. I postulate that this gradient has consequences for offspring mortality rates and parental energy expenditure per offspring. These consequences then determine how reproductive effort is partitioned among offspring, while reproductive effort evolves from age-specific mortality effects. Using data from a long-term site in Arizona, as well as from the literature, I provide support for hypothesized relationships. Nestling development period consistently explains fledgling mortality, energy expenditure per offspring, and clutch size while accounting for reproductive effort (i.e., total energy expenditure) to thereby support the framework. Tests in this article are not definitive, but they document previously unrecognized relationships and address diverse traits (developmental strategies, parental care strategies, energy requirements per offspring, evolution of reproductive effort, clutch size) that justify further investigations of hypotheses proposed here.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Netherlands 1 <1%
Chile 1 <1%
Australia 1 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
Sweden 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Unknown 129 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 31 23%
Student > Ph. D. Student 28 21%
Student > Master 25 19%
Student > Bachelor 14 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 9 7%
Other 16 12%
Unknown 12 9%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 86 64%
Environmental Science 23 17%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 4 3%
Nursing and Health Professions 2 1%
Social Sciences 1 <1%
Other 1 <1%
Unknown 18 13%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 10. 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 23 March 2023.
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#3,689,213
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#1,033
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Outputs of similar age from The American Naturalist
#13
of 39 outputs
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