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Masashi Kiyota Stephen J. Insley Stacey L. Lance 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》2008,62(5):739-746
We conducted a 6-year longitudinal behavioral and genetic investigation of a highly polygynous pinniped, the northern fur
seal (Callorhinus ursinus), to determine the contribution of terrestrial polygyny to male fertilization success and to assess the occurrence of alternative
mating strategies. Genetic samples from 37 adult males, 50 adult females, and 85 pups were collected and genotyped using five
polymorphic microsatellite loci. Pup paternity was assigned using Cervus 2.0 at 99% confidence level. Paternity of 83 pups
(98%) was assigned to terrestrial males who held territories or stayed temporarily in the study area during the breeding season
when fertilization occurred. For 56 pups of which attendance records of their mothers were available, paternity of 45 pups
(80%) was assigned to the associate males in whose territory their mothers stayed during the perioestrus period. In addition
to defending breeding territories, territorial males have often been observed attempting to forcibly abduct adult females
from adjacent territories (female stealing): We observed a total of 95 such cases, in which the stealers had significantly
fewer females than the territorial males from whose territories they stole females. Our results indicate that terrestrial
resource-defense polygyny is the major mating system in this species and that nonassociated paternity occurs mostly as a result
of alternative mating strategies of less successful males. Male northern fur seals thus appear to adopt conditional alternative
strategies that depend on their current social status to maximize their life-time reproductive success. 相似文献
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The reproductive behavior of male gray seals (Halichoerus grypus) breeding on land-fast ice at Amet Island, Nova Scotia, was studied. Data on energy expenditure (rate of mass loss over time) were collected. The average time budget of males at Amet Island was comparable to that of land-breeding males. The behavior of males showed seasonal changes, with a decrease in the proportion of time spent in the water and an increase in agonistic behavior during the peak mating period. The estimated amount of body mass lost over the season ranged between 25.6 and 77.1 kg, and the estimated percent of initial body mass lost ranged between 7.7 and 26.5% (n=10). The maximum number of observed copulations for an individual male was nine. Only 15 out of 42 males observed during 1992 and 1993 were seen copulating. The number of observed copulations per male was strongly correlated with success in remaining close to, or attending, females (r=0.91, P<0.001, n=42). The mean duration of attendance was 4.5 ± 5.54 days (n=42). Large size was not an important factor in determining attendance success, but reproductive effort (the estimated proportion of body mass lost over the season) and success in agonistic interactions with other males were both correlated with male success. 相似文献
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R. G. Harcourt J. J. Kingston M. F. Cameron J. R. Waas M. A. Hindell 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》2007,61(4):643-652
For polygynous mammals with no paternal care, the number of offspring sired is often the sole measure of male reproductive
success. The potential for polygyny is highest when resources or other environmental factors such as restricted breeding sites
force females to aggregate. In these circumstances, males compete intensely for females and mating success may vary greatly
among males, further intensifying selection for those traits that confer an advantage in reproduction. Hence, determinants
of male success in competition for females are likely to be under strong sexual selection. Paternity analysis was used in
conjunction with measures of age, site fidelity, and behavior during the breeding season to assess variance in male breeding
success in Weddell seals (Leptonychotes weddellii) breeding at Turtle Rock, McMurdo Sound (77.727S, 166.85E) between 1997 and 2000. Paternity could be assigned to 177 pups
at relaxed or 80% confidence level or 111 pups at strict or 95% confidence levels. Weddell seals at Turtle Rock show a modest
degree of polygyny with the greatest number of pups sired by any individual male in a single season equalling 5 or ∼10% of
the pups born. Over four consecutive years, most (89.2%) males sired at least one pup. In a generalized linear model (GLM),
age and the age first seen at the study site as an adult were unrelated to mating success, but adult experience, either site-specific
or elsewhere in McMurdo Sound, over the reproductive life span of males explained nearly 40% of variance in total mating success
with 80% confidence and 24% of variance at 95% confidence. While learning where females are likely to be may enhance male
reproductive success, aquatic mating reduces the ability of males to monopolize females, and thereby increases equity in mating
success. 相似文献
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Karen M. Cogliati Bryan D. Neff Sigal Balshine 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》2013,67(3):399-408
In many mating systems, males adopt alternative reproductive tactics (ARTs) to maximize reproductive success. In fishes, guarding males often invest more energy into courtship, defense, and paternal care, whereas cuckolding males forego such costs and steal fertilizations by releasing their sperm in the nest of a guarding male. These two tactics have been documented in the plainfin midshipman fish (Porichthys notatus), yet the relative reproductive success of the guarding and cuckolding male tactics remains unknown. In this study, we used microsatellite markers to determine the level of paternity of the guarding type I males. We explored how paternity varied with male phenotype and across the breeding season. Our results revealed the lowest documented levels of paternity in a species with obligate paternal care. Although paternity remained consistently low, it did increase as the breeding season progressed. Male body size did not significantly predict paternity. The low paternity in this species may be explained, in part, by aspects of their reproductive ecology including the duration of parental care period, limited nest availability and competition for nests, as well as the occurrence of nest takeovers. Overall, our findings contribute to the understanding of the ultimate factors underlying ARTs in this species and highlight the importance of investigating reproductive success across the entire breeding season. 相似文献
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Reproductive success in a low skew, communal breeding mammal: the banded mongoose, Mungos mungo 总被引:1,自引:1,他引:0
Jason S. Gilchrist 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》2006,60(6):854-863
In most cooperatively breeding species, reproduction is monopolised by a subset of group members. However, in some species
most or all individuals breed. The factors that affect reproductive success in such species are vital to understanding why
multiple females breed. A key issue is whether or not the presence of other breeders is costly to an individual’s reproductive
success. This study examines the factors that affect the post-parturition component of reproductive success in groups of communal-breeding
banded mongoose (Mungos mungo), where up to ten females breed together. Per-litter reproductive success was low (only 18% of pups survived from birth to
independence). Whilst singular breeding was wholly unsuccessful, there were costs associated with breeding in the presence
of increasing numbers of other females and in large groups. Synchronisation of parturition increased litter success, probably
because it minimises the opportunity for infanticide or decreases competitive asymmetry between pups born to different females.
There was no evidence of inbreeding depression, and reproductive success was generally higher in litters where females only
had access to related males within their group. I conclude that communal breeding in female banded mongooses represents a
compromise between the benefits of group-living and communal pup care on the one hand, and competition between females to
maximise their personal reproductive success on the other. Such conflicts are likely to occur in most communal breeding species.
Whilst communal breeding systems are generally considered egalitarian, negative effects of co-breeders on individual reproductive
success is still an issue. 相似文献
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Male migratory birds tend to be more faithful than females to previous breeding sites, suggesting sex differences in costs or benefits of dispersal. In Illinois, greater site fidelity by male yellow-headed blackbirds (Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus) was associated with reduced reproductive success the following year for dispersers relative to non-dispersers. Dispersing females suffered no reduction in reproductive success the following year. Males that attracted few social mates, and thus had low reproductive success, were more likely to disperse, whereas females dispersed in response to low-patch reproductive success, regardless of their individual performance. Males that dispersed appeared to be successful acquiring territories because none was observed as a floater. The rate of dispersal by males in this low-density population was greater than in more dense populations where dispersing males may be less successful at acquiring territories. Despite success at obtaining territories, males that dispersed acquired territories on the periphery of wetlands where fewer females nested, resulting in lower reproductive success. In the second year after dispersing, however, males moved onto more central territories where they acquired larger harems. Thus, dispersal by males may be a long-term strategy requiring at least 2 years for benefits to be realized. Long-term success was enhanced because dispersing males moved to wetlands on which reproductive success was higher than on the wetlands they left. In addition to demonstrating that both individual and patch reproductive success affect dispersal decisions, these data indicate that when evaluating costs and benefits of dispersal, researchers should use a time frame beyond 1 year. 相似文献
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Michael J. L. Magrath Peter Santema Karen M. Bouwman Dušan M. Brinkhuizen Simon C. Griffith Naomi E. Langmore 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》2009,63(5):661-672
Reproductive success within populations often varies with the timing of breeding, typically declining over the season. This
variation is usually attributed to seasonal changes in resource availability and/or differences in the quality or experience
of breeders. In colonial species, the timing of breeding may be of particular importance because the costs and benefits of
colonial breeding are likely to vary over the season and also with colony size. In this study, we examine the relationship
between timing of breeding and reproductive performance (clutch size and nest success) both within and between variable sized
colonies (n = 18) of fairy martins, Petrochelidon ariel. In four of these colonies, we also experimentally delayed laying in selected nests to disentangle the effects of laying
date and individual quality/experience on reproductive success. Within colonies, later laying birds produced smaller clutches,
but only in larger colonies. The general seasonal decline in nest success was also more pronounced in larger colonies. Late
laying birds were generally smaller than earlier laying birds, but morphological differences were also related to colony size,
suggesting optimal colony size also varies with phenotype. Experimentally delayed clutches were larger than concurrently produced
non-delayed clutches, but only in larger colonies. Similarly, delayed clutches were more likely to produce fledglings, particularly
later in the season and in larger colonies. We suggest that the reduced performance of late breeding pairs in larger colonies
resulted primarily from inexperienced/low quality birds preferring to settle in larger colonies, possibly exacerbated by an
increase in the costs of coloniality (e.g., resource depletion and ectoparasite infestations) with date and colony size. These
findings highlight the importance of phenotype-related differences in settlement decisions and reproductive performance to
an improved understanding of colonial breeding and variation in colony size. 相似文献
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Amy C. Dolan Michael T. Murphy Lucas J. Redmond Debbie Duffield 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》2009,63(10):1527-1537
Sex allocation theory predicts that if variance in reproductive success differs between the sexes, females who are able to
produce high-quality young should bias offspring sex ratio towards the sex with the higher potential reproductive success.
We tested the hypothesis that high-quality (i.e., heavy) female eastern kingbirds (Tyrannus tyrannus) that bred early in the breeding season would produce male-biased clutches. A significant opportunity for sexual selection
also exists in this socially monogamous but cryptically polygamous species, and we predicted that successful extra-pair (EP)
sires would be associated with an excess of male offspring. Although population brood sex ratio did not differ from parity,
it increased significantly with female body mass and declined with female breeding date, but was independent of the morphology
and display (song) behavior (correlates of reproductive success) of social males and EP sires. Male offspring were significantly
heavier than female offspring at fledging. Moreover, the probability that male offspring were resighted in subsequent years
declined with breeding date, and was greater in replacement clutches, but lower when clutch size was large. Probability of
resighting female offspring varied annually, but was independent of all other variables. Given that variance in reproductive
success of male kingbirds is much greater than that of females, and that male offspring are more expensive to produce and
have a higher probability of recruitment if fledged early in the season, our results support predictions of sex allocation
theory: high-quality (heavy) females breeding when conditions were optimal for male recruitment produced an excess of sons. 相似文献
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Summary We tested the hypothesis that the basis of the variation in reproductive strategy among male yellow warblers (Dendroica petechia) is a tradeoff in the allocation of reproductive effort to intrasexual competition (territorial effort) and to parental care (parental effort). Since a negative correlation between level of parental effort and amount of brown streaking on the breast (plumage score) has already been demonstrated in this species, this study looked for evidence of a positive correlation of territorial effort with plumage score and a negative correlation with parental effort. Analysis of the spatial and temporal use of territories, prior to egg-laying, by males with different plumage scores supported the prediction that brighter (higher plumage score) males allocate more effort to territorial establishment and maintenance (Fig. 1). Male plumage score was positively and highly significantly correlated with six different measures of the relative amount of time spent, rate of energy expended, and risk of injury assumed by each male during territorial activities. The level of territorial effort was also found to be negatively correlated with the level of parental effort expended by the same males later in the season, confirming that there is a tradeoff in allocation of reproductive effort to these two major components. Further analysis revealed that territory quality was positively correlated with male plumage score (Figs. 3 and 4), while average nestling growth rate and other indices of reproductive success were not (Fig. 6). These results suggest that increased territorial effort by brighter males enables them to occupy higher quality territories where high levels of parental effort are not necessary to maintain high levels of reproductive success. Since reproductive success was not correlated with plumage score, this study further supports the differential allocation hypothesis that different males are using alternative strategies for the allocation of reproductive effort. 相似文献
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In the cooperatively breeding red-cockaded woodpecker (Picoides borealis), male helpers are subordinate to male breeders and do not mate with females, even when unrelated to the breeding female
within their group or through extra-group matings, yet exhibit reproductive hormone profiles similar to those of breeders.
We investigated whether reproduction might be suppressed in helper males via high levels of the stress hormone corticosterone.
We also examined effects of group size and season on corticosterone levels by comparing baseline and maximal plasma levels
of corticosterone between helper males and breeding males, and among helper males and breeders of both sexes living in groups
of different sizes throughout the reproductive cycle. We also measured plasma levels of estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone
to examine other potential hormonal differences between helpers and breeders. Male status did not explain variation in any
hormones; therefore, our data do not support the hypothesis that helper males are reproductively suppressed via corticosterone
or the other hormones investigated. However, the presence of two or more helper males in a group tended to reduce baseline
corticosterone in breeding and helper males, but not breeding females, suggesting that helper males reduce parental effort
of other male group members. Seasonally, maximal corticosterone peaked during the nestling provisioning phase for breeding
and helper males, but not breeder females, suggesting that males show an increased response to stressors posing a potential
threat to survival of offspring. 相似文献
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Noboru Okuda Tomohiro Takeyama Yasunobu Yanagisawa 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》1997,41(6):363-369
Entire-brood cannibalism by mouthbrooding males of the cardinal fish Apogon doederleini was investigated in temperate waters of southern Japan during two breeding seasons. The rate of cannibalism was 17–18% in
each season and did not differ among age-groups. However, the seasonal pattern of cannibalism differed markedly among age-groups:
young (1- and 2-year-old) males frequently cannibalized early broods, especially the first brood, of the season, whereas cannibalism
by middle-aged (3- and 4-year-old) and old (5- and 6-year-old) males mainly occurred late in the breeding season. We explain
this difference in terms of trade-offs between current and future reproduction. Young males, whose future reproductive success
is enhanced by the growth increment, may allocate more time and energy to growth by cannibalizing early broods. In contrast,
for older males who have had more breeding cycles and grow little, cannibalism could be a way to reverse the deterioration
in their somatic condition that occurs as the breeding season progresses. It is also likely that the current reproductive
loss entailed by the cannibalism is effectively compensated by quick re-mating with another female.
Received: 24 February 1997 / Accepted after revision: 20 July 1997 相似文献
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Rita Covas Morné A. du Plessis Claire Doutrelant 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》2008,63(1):103-112
Some studies on the effects of helpers in cooperatively breeding vertebrates show a positive effect of helper presence on
reproductive output whereas others find no effect. One possibility for this discrepancy is that helpers may have a positive
effect when breeding conditions are adverse, while their effect might go unnoticed under good conditions. We investigate this
hypothesis on sociable weavers Philetairus socius, a colonial cooperatively breeding passerine that inhabits a semi-arid region where breeding conditions vary markedly. We
used multivariate mixed models to analyse the effect of helpers on reproduction under contrasting environmental and social
conditions while controlling for parental and colony identity. We found that reproductive success in sociable weavers was
primarily influenced by nest predation and rainfall. In addition, colony size was negatively associated with hatching and
fledging success and number of young fledged per season. Helpers had a less prominent but significant influence on feeding
rates and reproductive outcome. In agreement with expectations, the presence of helpers counteracted some of the negative
effects of breeding in periods of low rainfall or in large colonies and was also associated with an increased number of young
fledged per season. Our results illustrate that the effect of helpers might be detectable mostly under unfavourable conditions,
but can contribute to improve reproductive performance in those situations. 相似文献
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Growth rate and the cost of calling activity in male carpenter frogs,Rana virgatipes 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Mac F. Given 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》1988,22(3):153-160
Summary Energy stress during the breeding season and relationships between calling activity and growth were investigated in male carpenter frogs, Rana virgatipes. This species has a prolonged breeding season of up to three months in Southern New Jersey. Monthly collections made in 1985 revealed that both dry mass and percent body lipid decreased throughout the breeding season but sharply increased at the end of the breeding season. Observations of free-living males showed that small males were more likely to gain mass than large males during the breeding season. All males gained mass at higher rates after the breeding season. A simultaneous record of calling activity and mass change was obtained for 42 males. Males called on 95% of nights, indicating that they rarely ceased their reproductive activities. Small males tended to have low calling efforts and high growth rates. When the effect of initial mass was removed, growth rate was negatively correlated with calling effort among small males. This is the first demonstration of a direct tradeoff between a reproductive activity and growth in an anuran. 相似文献
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Effects of paternal care on reproductive success in the polygynous spotless starling Sturnus unicolor 总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2
J. Moreno José P. Veiga Pedro J. Cordero Eduardo Mínguez 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》1999,47(1-2):47-53
For males of socially polygynous avian species like the spotless starling, there may exist a trade-off between investing in
paternal care and controlling several nests. To determine how the intensity of paternal care affects reproductive success
per brood sired or expressed as the total number of young raised in all nests controlled by the same male, it is necessary
to manipulate paternal care. Testosterone (T) has been shown to depress the tendency for males to care for their young, and
induces them to acquire more mates. The effects of paternal care on reproductive success were studied by treating certain
male starlings with exogenous T and others with the antiandrogen cyproterone acetate (CA), and comparing the parental behavior
of T- and CA-males throughout the breeding season with that of controls. CA-males fed their chicks more during the first week
after hatching than T-males, with controls feeding at intermediate rates, both on a per nest basis and as total effort for
all nests controlled by the same male. Paternal feeding rates during the first week of chick life had a significant positive
effect on the number of fledged young. The hormone treatment significantly affected the number of chicks raised per nest,
CA-males having a higher breeding success per nest than T-males, and controls showing intermediate levels of success. There
was no significant effect of treatment on total reproductive success attained by males throughout the season. In the polygonous
spotless starling, the intensity of paternal care of young affects reproductive success per nest positively but not on a seasonal
basis.
Received: 6 February 1999 / Received in revised form: 30 June 1999 / Accepted: 11 July 1999 相似文献
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Testosterone-induced depression of male parental behavior in the barn swallow: female compensation and effects on seasonal fitness 总被引:5,自引:0,他引:5
In birds, many aspects of male socio-sexual and parental behavior are influenced by androgens, most notably testosterone (T). We report the effects of subcutaneous T-implants in male barn swallows (Hirundo rustica) on male and female parental behavior and on seasonal reproductive success. Males were assigned to one of three experimental groups: (i) implanted with a T-filled Silastic tube; (ii) implanted with an empty Silastic tube; and (iii) not implanted. T-implanted males provided a smaller proportion of feedings (number of feedings by the male/total number of feedings by both parents) and fed nestlings less frequently (number of feedings/h) than males of the other two groups. Females paired to T-implanted males fed nestlings significantly more often than females paired with unimplanted males. Females almost fully compensated for their mates' shortfall, and this resulted in similar combined feeding efforts among treatments. Reproductive success in their first broods or during the entire breeding season was unaffected by T- treatment. These results confirm earlier reports of the suppressive effects of T on male parental behavior. However, they are inconsistent with current ESS models that predict partial compensation as the optimal response by one individual to reduction of parental effort by its mate in monogamous, biparental systems. 相似文献
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The theory of life history evolution assumes trade-offs between competing fitness traits such as reproduction, somatic growth,
and maintenance. One prediction of this theory is that if large individuals have a higher reproductive success, small/young
individuals should invest less in reproduction and allocate more resources in growth than large/old individuals. We tested
this prediction using the common toad (Bufo bufo), a species where mating success of males is positively related to their body size. We measured testes mass, soma mass, and
sperm stock size in males of varying sizes that were either (1) re-hibernated at the start of the breeding season, (2) kept
without females throughout the breeding season, or (3) repeatedly provided with gravid females. In the latter group, we also
estimated fertilization success and readiness to re-mate. Contrary to our predictions, the relationship between testes mass
and soma mass was isometric, sperm stock size relative to testes mass was unrelated to male size, fertilization success was
not higher in matings with larger males, and smaller males were not less likely to engage in repeated matings than larger
males. These results consistently suggest that smaller males did not invest less in reproduction to be able to allocate more
in growth than larger males. Causes for this unexpected result may include relatively low year-to-year survival, unpredictable
between-year variation in the strength of sexual selection and low return rates of lowered reproductive investment. 相似文献
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Pierre-Paul Bitton Russell D. Dawson Courtney L. Ochs 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》2008,62(10):1543-1550
Elaborate ornamental plumage has been associated with various measures of individual quality in many species of birds. Male
plumage characteristics, which have been relatively well studied, have been shown to reflect past reproductive investment,
as well as the potential for reproductive investment in the current breeding attempt. In contrast, the signalling functions
of female traits remain largely unexplored. In this study, we investigated the relationship between plumage attributes of
breeding adult tree swallows and past reproductive investment, current reproductive investment and social mate pairing strategy.
Both males and older females possess metallic green to metallic blue iridescent plumage on their dorsal surface, making this
a suitable species for this type of investigation. We did not find any effects of past reproductive investment and success
on the plumage attributes of returning breeders. In contrast, female plumage hue covaried with fledging success, and female
plumage brightness was positively associated with mean clutch egg mass. In addition, we found that social pairs mated assortatively
with respect to plumage brightness. We argue that since plumage characteristics vary with age in both male and female tree
swallows, plumage attributes in this species are indicative of breeding experience and may be honest signals of quality. Positive
assortative pairing could be the result of mutual mate choice or intra-sexual competition for nest sites by both males and
females. 相似文献
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In general, reproductive output in long-lived bird species increases in older compared to younger individuals. Therefore, experienced mates should be advantageous for first-time breeders. To examine requirements and consequences of experienced pair mates we investigated the first pair bonds of common terns, Sterna hirundo, recruiting to their natal colony. We found that male recruits were usually the same age as their mates, whereas female recruits were usually the younger member of the pair. In order to acquire experienced mates, it was necessary for males to arrive early in the year of recruitment. Mates with 2 or more years of breeding experience were only attainable by male recruits characterised by greater body mass and age. Female recruits arrived more than 1 week later than their experienced mates and significantly later in the season than male recruits paired with experienced females. In general, females first bred at a younger age than males, and neither the female recruits body mass nor their age was related to the level of experience of their first mate. These sex-specific differences in obtaining an experienced mate did not result in different levels of reproductive success between the sexes. Male and female recruits with mates with 2 or more years breeding experience benefited from having experienced mates: they had greater reproductive success. First-time breeders paired with mates with only 1 year of breeding experience did not differ from pairs where both members were breeding for the first time in terms of reproductive success, but clutches were larger. Our results illustrate not only different prerequisites for males and females, but also males need for experienced mates. Delayed male breeding (postponing breeding for another year), supposed to be a negative trait, and high body mass, supposed to be a trait of superior individual quality, can be combined in some individuals, improving reproductive success and showing that breeding common terns use a range of tactics to begin reproduction.Communicated by F. Trillmich 相似文献
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Norman Owen-Smith 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》1993,32(3):177-184
Summary Size dimorphism with males larger than females has been related to the benefits for males of enhanced dominance and hence reproductive success. However, mating gains must outweigh the fitness costs of deferred reproduction and the mortality associated with further growth. The relationships between male age, size and reproduction were assessed for greater kudus (Tragelaphus strepsiceros) in the Kruger National Park in South Africa. Individually identifiable animals were monitored over 10 years, with detailed observations made during six breeding seasons. In the non-breeding season males formed loose all-male groups. Horn grappling and low intensity agonistic interactions fostered dominance rankings. Dominance was age-graded, until males reached full weight at 6 years of age. Males aged 6 and 7 years monopolized courtship and mating, but 5-year-old males secured about 10% of mating opportunities. Few males survived beyond 7 years. Male mortality rate rose steeply with age, so that the functional sex ratio of fertile females per mature male was about 14:1. During the breeding season many female groups remained unattended by a mature male. Reproductive sorting among males occurred largely through variation in survival to full size and maturity. Increased size enhances fighting success and hence dominance. Further growth ceases when the functional sex ratio exceeds the number of mating opportunities that males can effectively achieve during a breeding season. Predation amplifies the mortality cost of continued growth. In the absence of large predators, male-male interactions may be atypically exaggerated. 相似文献
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Gilberto Pasinelli Mathis Müller Michael Schaub Lukas Jenni 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》2007,61(7):1061-1074
Studies of animal breeding dispersal have often focused on possible causes, whereas its adaptive significance has received
less attention. Using an information-theoretic approach, we assessed predictions of four hypotheses relating to causes and
consequences of breeding dispersal in a migratory passerine, the red-backed shrike Lanius collurio. As predicted by the reproductive performance hypothesis, probability of breeding dispersal in females (though not in males)
decreased with increasing annual average number of fledglings produced in the past year, but there was no association with
conspecific reproductive performance in either sex. The site choice hypothesis, stating that individuals disperse to improve
breeding site quality, received support in males only, as dispersal probability was positively associated to a measure indicating
low territory quality. The social constraints hypothesis, referring to dispersal in relation to intraspecific interactions,
received little support in either sex. The predation risk hypothesis was hardly supported either. Consequences of dispersal
were marginal in both sexes because neither fledgling production in females, nor territory quality in males improved after
dispersal. In addition, males settled on territories closer to the forest edge than those occupied predispersal, which is
opposite to the prediction of the predation risk hypothesis. We conclude that own reproductive success was the major factor
determining dispersal behavior in females, whereas territory quality and possibly predation risk were most important in males.
Overall, breeding dispersal appeared not to be adaptive in this dense population inhabiting an optimal habitat. 相似文献