Fitness consequences of male provisioning of incubating females in a desert passerine bird

Stein, Laura R.; Oh, Kevin P.; Badyaev, Alexander V.

doi:10.1007/s10336-009-0447-6

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“…Camfield and Martin 2009;Bulla et al 2015). To optimize embryo development, the parents have to ensure that the eggs are kept within appropriate temperature limits (Yom-Tov et al 1978;Reid et al 1999Reid et al , 2000Stein et al 2010). Consequently, incubation is a crucial part of reproduction in almost all avian species (Matysioková and Remeš 2010); however, incubation is energetically costly, and incubating individuals also face a trade-off between self-maintenance and the thermal needs of the embryos.…”

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“…Consequently, incubation is a crucial part of reproduction in almost all avian species (Matysioková and Remeš 2010); however, incubation is energetically costly, and incubating individuals also face a trade-off between self-maintenance and the thermal needs of the embryos. A common system that has been adopted by several species, possibly as a resolution to this trade-off, is a uniparental incubation system in which only the female incubates while the male provides aid in the form of supplying food ('male incubation feeding ';Kluijver 1950;Hałupka 1994;Matysioková and Remeš 2010;Stein et al 2010). The ''female nutrition'' hypothesis (Royama 1966) is one of the most invoked theories in this context and states that male incubation feeding enables the female to increase the amount of time she can spend incubating (female nest attendance ;Royama 1966;Camfield and Martin 2009;Matysioková et al 2011;Stein et al 2010;Ibáñez-Á lamo and Soler 2012).…”

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“…The frequency of male incubation feeding often differs between individuals (Royama 1966;Hatchwell et al 1999;Matysioková et al 2011;Stein et al 2010). If male incubation feeding affects female nest attendance, this variation may be explained by variation in the circumstances that affect the need for incubation.…”

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“…In addition, characteristics of the clutch, such as number of eggs, may be correlated with male incubation feeding: females with a larger clutch may require more energy to incubate the eggs or may spend more time on incubation and less on foraging (de Heij et al 2007), so that males may need to feed females incubating larger clutches more frequently. Overall, females are expected to adjust nest attendance and males to adjust incubation feeding frequency in such a way that they shorten the incubation period (Hałupka 1994;Hatchwell et al 1999;Camfield and Martin 2009;Stein et al 2010), decrease developmental risks and/or maximize hatching and reproductive success (Lyon and Montgomerie 1985;Hatchwell et al 1999;Martin and Ghalambor 1999;Tulp and Schekkerman 2006;Stein et al 2010). Therefore, it can be expected that the variation in nest attendance and incubation feeding affects individuals' reproduction depending on environmental circumstances and characteristics of the clutch.…”

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The effect of male incubation feeding on female nest attendance and reproductive performance in a socially monogamous bird

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The incubation of eggs plays a key role in avian parental care. To ensure embryo development, incubating parents have to keep their eggs within the appropriate temperature limits. To do so, incubating individuals allocate substantial energy to the thermal demands of their eggs, but they face a trade-off with self-maintenance (own metabolism) because they usually cannot forage while incubating eggs. In species with female-only incubation, males can help their partners by providing them with food on the nest, a behavior which may enable females to spend more time incubating and could, consequently, lead to improved reproductive performance. In the study reported here, we first investigated whether incubation feeding by males affects nest attendance by females in Blue Tits (Cyanistes caeruleus) and subsequently determined how this incubation feeding affects reproductive performance. We found that the female nest attendance tended to increase with increasing amounts of food supplied by their male partner. Thus, males may enable females to incubate more when needed, as suggested by our observation that male incubation feeding was more frequent when the ambient temperature was lower, and especially so when females incubated later in the breeding season (during the study period the ambient temperature decreased rapidly over the breeding season, which is exceptional). Although female nest attendance did not result in a shorter time until the eggs hatched or in higher hatching success, females that attended the nest more produced heavier nestlings. We suggest that the trade-off between self-maintenance and meeting the demands of egg incubation likely tends to be less when females received more assistance from their partner during the egg incubation period, resulting in a higher investment in offspring.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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“…In fact, several studies have demonstrated that higher rates of male incubation feeding to their mates can improve female body condition (Lifjeld and Slagsvold 1986) and increase nest attentiveness by reducing the amount of time the female spends foraging off the nest (Halupka 1994;Leclaire et al 2011;Lloyd et al 2009;but see Lifjled & Slagsvold 1989;Matysioková & Remeš 2010;Boulton et al 2010;Stein et al 2010;Moreno and Carlson 1989;Pearse et al 2004;Smith et al 1989;Stein et al 2010) and thereby help to advance hatching (Lyon and Montgomerie 1985;Nilsson and Smith 1988), improve hatching success (Galván and Sanz 2011;Lyon and Montgomerie 1985;Nilsson and Smith 1988) or improve fledgling condition (Lifjeld and Slagsvold 1986;Røskaft 1983). This suggests that incubation feeding has evolved as a behavioural strategy to partly compensate for the energetic limitations of females while incubating (Galván and Sanz 2011).…”

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Males respond to female begging signals of need: a handicapping experiment in the pied flycatcher, Ficedula hypoleuca

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ABSTRACT. The 'female nutrition' hypothesis proposes that food provided by males during incubation is an important energy source for females in bird species in which females alone incubate. Females should be able to communicate their needs through begging signals to mates and males may compensate for the energetic limitations of females through their feeding visits, owing to their overlapping reproductive interests. To test whether female begging during incubation is an honest signal of energetic need and whether mates respond to it we experimentally handicapped female pied flycatchers at the beginning of incubation by clipping two primary flight feathers on each wing. Experimental manipulation led females to intensify begging displays arising from condition impairment and males accordingly increased their incubation feeding rates.Female begging intensity explained more than half of the variation in male incubation feeding rate, thereby showing that female nutrition is the main factor explaining male incubation feeding. Moreover, handicapped females consumed a higher proportion of male food deliveries during the first few days after hatching and weighed less at the end of the nestling period than control females.

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Temperature‐related geographical shifts among passerines: contrasting processes along poleward and equatorward range margins

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Kerr

2015

Ecology and Evolution

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Climate change is causing widespread geographical range shifts, which likely reflects different processes at leading and trailing range margins. Progressive warming is thought to relax thermal barriers at poleward range margins, enabling colonization of novel areas, but imposes increasingly unsuitable thermal conditions at equatorward margins, leading to range losses from those areas. Few tests of this process during recent climate change have been possible, but understanding determinants of species’ range limits will improve predictions of their geographical responses to climate change and variation in extinction risk. Here, we examine the relationship between poleward and equatorward range margin dynamics with respect to temperature‐related geographical limits observed for 34 breeding passerine species in North America between 1984–1988 and 2002–2006. We find that species’ equatorward range margins were closer to their upper realized thermal niche limits and proximity to those limits predicts equatorward population extinction risk through time. Conversely, the difference between breeding bird species’ poleward range margin temperatures and the coolest temperatures they tolerate elsewhere in their ranges was substantial and remained consistent through time: range expansion at species’ poleward range margins is unlikely to directly reflect lowered thermal barriers to colonization. The process of range expansion may reflect more complex factors operating across broader areas of species’ ranges. The latitudinal extent of breeding bird ranges is decreasing through time. Disparate responses observed at poleward versus equatorward margins arise due to differences in range margin placement within the realized thermal niche and suggest that climate‐induced geographical shift at equatorward range limits more strongly reflect abiotic conditions than at their poleward range limits. This further suggests that observed geographic responses to date may fail to demonstrate the true cost of climate change on the poleward portion of species’ distributions. Poleward range margins for North American breeding passerines are not presently in equilibrium with realized thermal limits.

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Fitness consequences of male provisioning of incubating females in a desert passerine bird

Cited by 17 publications

References 47 publications

The effect of male incubation feeding on female nest attendance and reproductive performance in a socially monogamous bird

The effect of male incubation feeding on female nest attendance and reproductive performance in a socially monogamous bird

Males respond to female begging signals of need: a handicapping experiment in the pied flycatcher, Ficedula hypoleuca

Temperature‐related geographical shifts among passerines: contrasting processes along poleward and equatorward range margins

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