Hotshots, Hotspots, and Female Preference in the Organization of Lek Mating Systems

Beehler, Bruce M.; Foster, Mercedes S.

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“…First, under all simulated conditions, dominant males should be the first to enter the lek and the last to leave. This pattern superficially mimics that described in the "hotshot" model (Beehler and Foster 1988;Gibson 1992), where low-quality males aggregate around high-quality males in order to intercept females attracted to the latter. However, our model offers an alternative explanation for this pattern.…”

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“…This approach has been widely used in studies of animal courtship (Candolin and Voight 1998 and references therein;Warner and Dill 2000) but has rarely been applied to leks (Kalas et al 1995). Instead, most evolutionary models have assumed leks to be the product of sexual selection (Bradbury 1981;Bradbury et al 1986;Beehler and Foster 1988;Gibson 1992;Widemo and Owens 1995;Kokko 1997).…”

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How Predation Risk Affects the Temporal Dynamics of Avian Leks: Greater Sage Grouse versus Golden Eagles

Boyko

Gibson

Lucas

2004

The American Naturalist

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How Predation Risk Affects the Temporal Dynamics of Avian Leks: Greater Sage Grouse versus Golden Eagles

Boyko

Gibson

Lucas

2004

The American Naturalist

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“…If this is not the case, they would tend to disperse for ecological reasons. According to the hotshot model, leks are formed by males aggregating around a high-quality male, with overdispersion as a prediction when female choice is variable (Beehler and Foster 1988). Our data does not appear to suggest the present of hotshots given that six broods were sired by at least five different males.…”

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Male territories and the lek-like mating system of MacQueen’s Bustard Chlamydotis macqueenii

Riou¹,

Combreau²

2014

J Ornithol

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Lekking is a promiscuous breeding system in which females visit groups of displaying males only for the purpose of mating. The spatial organization of these groups can range from tight aggregations of individuals, or leks, to loose clusters of males displaying on exploded-leks, and it can also include males seemingly displaying alone. As the distance between displaying males increases, it becomes possible for them to hold fixed territories and for females to select mates not for their genetic quality, as on true leks, but for the quality of the resource on their territory, i.e., resource-defense polygyny. Here, in a 2-year study of a breeding population of MacQueen's Bustard Chlamydotis macqueenii in southwest Kazakhstan, we used GPS and radio-tracking coupled with observation to understand male territoriality and the spatial distribution of sites, and we followed the breeding behavior of cryptic females using nest locations and genetic paternity analysis. We found that males were faithful throughout the season and across years to a small and exclusive territory centered on their display site. These sites were significantly overdispersed in space and thus we could not delimit any leks in a study area spanning 350 km 2 . Females nested in the vicinity of male territories and sometimes inside them, but based on a sample of six resolved paternities, they did not favor the territory of their mate for nesting. This is inconsistent with the hypothesis of resource-based female choice and implies that the breeding system of MacQueen's Bustard can be treated as a special case of lekking, albeit without male aggregation. Six broods were fathered by at least five different males, which lends support to the hypothesis that overdispersion of male sites is related to variability in female mate choice, and thus low male mating-skew in a lekking system.

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“…portant ficus for testing current theories regarding sexual selection and mate choice (Beehler & Foster 1987). In the genus Paradisaea, the primary mating system is the lek.…”

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“…For a review of current sexual selection theory see Borgia (1987). Although often debated (LeCroy 1981;Beehler & Foster 1987;Beehler 1988), it is widely believed that one of the primary characteristics of lek systems is that the female has the ability to choose a mate (Bradbury 1981;Bradbury & Gibson 1983). However, in birds of paradise, the precise criteria upon which a female bases her decisions remain unknown (Diamond 1986).…”

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Reproduction by Captive Unplumed Male Lesser Bird of ParadiseParadisaea minor: Evidence for an Alternative Mating Strategy?

Laska

Hutchins²,

Sheppard³

et al. 1992

Emu - Austral Ornithology

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Hotshots, Hotspots, and Female Preference in the Organization of Lek Mating Systems

Cited by 305 publications

References 39 publications

How Predation Risk Affects the Temporal Dynamics of Avian Leks: Greater Sage Grouse versus Golden Eagles

How Predation Risk Affects the Temporal Dynamics of Avian Leks: Greater Sage Grouse versus Golden Eagles

Male territories and the lek-like mating system of MacQueen’s Bustard Chlamydotis macqueenii

Reproduction by Captive Unplumed Male Lesser Bird of ParadiseParadisaea minor: Evidence for an Alternative Mating Strategy?

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